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 many owersetts, and over 213 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, 22 August 2026
The Poems Chunnacas na mairbh beo (The Dead Have Been Seen Alive)
Acknowledgements Title: ‘Chunnacas na mairbh beò’ ('The Dead Have Been Seen Alive'),Cover: Mummy portraits, coffin lid, Walters Art Museum Baltimore
Published by Malfranteaux Concepts Printed by Retro Overflow Pamphlet no 225 Sheena Blackhall August 2026 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, set up and edited by Pauline Cordiner, storyteller.A Doric Diptych appears in Ayont the Thistle a collection of poetry and prose edited by Jim Mackintosh, Alan Riach, and James Robertson, published by Tippermuir Books. It was scheduled for release on August 10 2026 to mark the centenary of Hugh MacDiarmid’s landmark poem A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle. August 22nd is published in the P and J’s Doric column.Thanks are due to Malfranteaux Concept for publishing this volume, and to guest writer Kenna Anderson for setting up and editing the linked in version, and for her contribution to the pamphlet from her poetry collection Days to Remember. c) Sheena Blackhall August 2026 ‘All the World’s a Graveyard.’…Comanche delegate, Sir Duncan Rice Library July 31st 2026

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