Sheena Blackhall is a writer, illustrator, traditional ballad singer and storyteller in North East Scotland. From 1998-2003 she was Creative Writing Fellow in Scots at the Elphinstone Institute. She has published four Scots novellas, fifteen short story collections and over 200 poetry collections, which are listed here (most recent first). In 2009 she became Makar (poet laureate) for Aberdeen and the North East, and Makar for the Doric Board in 2019.
Saturday, 12 November 2022
The Poems: The Hale Rickmatic Pamphlet 183
Title: The Hale Rickmatic : (Pamphlet no 183) Front Cover : Lockdown by Rosy Long Published by Malfranteaux Concepts Printed by Retro Overflow Copyright: Sheena Blackhall December2022 Limited print run of 50 copies
Birse Kirk was published in the collection Our Living Rivers & Glens. The River Dee & Dee Journey was published in Four Rivers, Deep Maps: edited by Jo Jones and Neil Curtis, pub. University of Western Australia (launched 4/11/ 2022) Collected Responses on the Don and Dee Rivers (North-East Scotland)and the Derbarl Yerrigan and Dyarlgarro Beeliar (Swan and Canning Rivers, Western Australia). ISBN 978-1-76080-218-9.
The cover ‘Lockdown’ is reproduced here with kind permission of the artist Rosy Long.