The Poems: Ganesh's Daughter

Acknowledgements Title: Ganesh’s Daughter,Pamphlet no 174, Cover: Pin Interest clip art elephant,Published by Malfranteaux Concepts,Printed by Retro Overflow Copyright: Sheena Blackhall January 2022. The song ‘David Toulmin’s Heirskip’ which sings to the tune Drumdelgie was commissioned by the Elphinstone Institute to celebrate the launch of their book which brings together all the winning stories since inception of the Toulmin Story Comp together with selected others in the anthology Dinna Mess wi the Popo and other stories of the North-East of Scotland. Balvaird Castle appeared in The Northern Light Issue 55 – December 2021 Confraternity of the Knights of the Most Holy Trinity (Priory of Scotland). ‘Birse Kirk’ features in the The Dee Don Ceilidh Collective ‘Our Living Rivers and Glens’ project. Added to their media map, as an inspiration for their composers and songwriters, Jenny Sturgeon has cited it as one of her inspirations for her new song ‘Spinning Discs’. The tunes and songs are now complete, and you can listen to them on the designated website A‘legacy’ book for the project, will include all of the new music and songs, and some of the images and inspirations behind them. Birse Kirk will feature in this. The Spikk o the Nor East Leid was commissioned by DOST, and the poem (text & video) is live on dsl.ac.uk/Aitken100.‘A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (‘DOST’, 1932–2002) is a unique record of the language, history, culture and traditions of the Scots-speaking people from their earliest records to the year 1700. Running to 8,100 pages, this national treasure incorporates some 50,000 entries and 581,000 illustrative quotations drawn from more than three centuries of language use…. This year marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of one of its most significant contributors: A.J. (Jack) Aitken (1921–1998), an outstanding figure in Scots language scholarship and editor of DOST from 1955 to 1986. …’As a lasting tribute to DOS five poets were commissioned to write poems celebration of Scots and its extensive history. The poems, written in a variety of local vernaculars, were published on St Andrew’s Day 2021, by Sheena Blackhall, Liz Lochhead, Alison Millar, Gregor Steele and Rab Wilson Sheena Blackhall c. January 2022