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.
Sunday, 20 April 2025
The Poems Stottin Cats
Acknowledgements Title: (Pamphlet no 209) Stottin Cats Front Cover : craiyon_1983818_medieval_woodcut_of_cat_sleeping Published by Malfranteaux Concepts Printed by Retro Overflow Sheena Blackhall March -April 2025 For more information on publications by Sheena Blackhall see
www.nls.uk/catalogues/online/index/html. www.poemhunter.com. http://smiddleton4.wix.com/sheena-blackhall. An interview in podcast form with the poet appears on http://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/connect/podcast/sheena-blackhall https://sheenablackhall.wordpress.com/ showcases over 2,000 poems in themes.Easter Beasties, Bogles, an Eggies was published in the Doric Column of the P & J in April.Thanks are due to Malfranteaux Concept for publishing this volume, and to guest writer Kenna Anderson for her short story Magic in the Mountains March-April 2025 Limited print run of 50 copies
The Kattenstoet (lit. 'Festival of the Cats') is a parade in Ypres, Belgium, devoted to the cat. It has been running regularly since 1955 and is usually held triennially on the second Sunday of Lent. The parade commemorates an Ypres tradition from the Middle Ages in which cats were allegedly thrown from the belfry tower of the Cloth Hall to the town square below.