The Poems: Moon Struck

Acknowledgements Title: Moon Struck (Pamphlet no 185) Front Cover : Free image from Pixabay Published by Malfranteaux Concepts Printed by Retro Overflow Limited print run of 50 copies.

In February Sheena Blackhall continued to run creative writing workshops for children at Aberdeen Art Centre. This month she also gave a reading in Keith. Kirils Kuzmins, a student at RGU, carrying out an Internship at Doric Books filmed an hour-long session of the poet reading her poems, and those she had translated, to later post weekly on Doric Books social media pages. Also carrying out an internship with Doric Books, Kirstie Clark carried out another hour long interview with the poet at RGU. At Aberdeen University Blackhall delivered a session on storytelling to the students. She was one of the editors of Tales fae the Doric Side promoting the collaboration between the writer Jo Gilbert, The Friends of Elphinstone, the Elphinstone Institute at the University of Aberdeen and Creative Funding, and she read at the launch of this anthology. She also touched base with Aberdeen University’s Laura Grant and Georgios Leontidis on the theme of technology, to discuss writing, ‘what writers draw on, the importance of emotion and empathy – all the good things that machines, even the highly intelligent ones, lack.’ The short story ‘Bobby was Gone’ was written by Kenna Anderson, a new and exciting emerging writer. Thanks are due to Malfranteaux Concept for publishing this volume.Sheena Blackhall copyright February 2023