The Poems: (166) A Bard's Life

Sheena Blackhall, A Bard’s Life, paperback, 110pp, 210x135mm. ISBN 978-1-8384052-2-9 rrp £9.99 Published 2021 by Rymour Books, 45 Needless Road, Perth.PH2 OLE https://www.rymour.co.uk Cover design by Ian Spring Typeset in Bembo, printed & bound by Imprint Digital Seychelles Farm, Upton Pyne, Exteter. A CIP catalogue record for this book is availablefrom the British Library. Poet, scholar, singer, storyteller, artist; Sheena Blackhall is a prolific and much-admired author from the North-east of Scotland. This enthralling collection follows her life from rural Aberdeenshire to the far-flung corners of the world searching for poems. As the title, A Bard‘s Life, would suggest, it‘s a kind of autobiography. It‘s told as a sequence of poems and short stories, illustrated with family photos and her own drawings, with a preface by Alan Pence..

The Poems : Skin(2)

Title: Skin (2) : Pamphlet no 165, Cover: a detail from Michaelangelo’s Last Judgement. Published by Malfranteaux Concepts. Printed by Retro Overflow Copyright: Sheena Blackhall 2021. The cover is a detail from Michaelangelo’s Last Judgement in the Sistine Chapel. It represents St Bartholomew holding his flayed skin, thought to be a portrait of Michaelangelo himself. In her Higher Art class Blackhall won the James McBey Art essay prize for her composition on Michaelangelo’s Last Judgement.

March 2021