The Poems: The Devil's Pulpit

Title: The Devil’s Pulpit, Finnich Glen (Pamphlet no 186)Front Cover : on-line photo of the scene Published by Malfranteaux Concepts Printed by Retro Overflow Copyright: Sheena Blackhall March 2023 Limited print run of 50 copies.The Enemy Inside was commissioned by Asif Khan of the Scottish Poetry Library which is partnering with Parkinson's UK Scotland to mark World Parkinson’s Day on 11 April. It will be published on their social media platforms.Ukraine was written after a dinner with the confraternity of the Knights of the Most Holy Trinity, hosted by Grand Prior Albert Thomson, where two Ukrainian guests, Mariya Pavlova and Inna MacLeod, related stories of the suffering in their homeland. They have set up an Association of Ukrainians in Aberdeen. 2,000 refugees from Ukraine have now settled in the city. The poem was published in the Knights of the Most Holy Trinity’s magazine, issue 61 of The Northern Light. Overheard at Wetherspoons and Bullied was published in the anthology Tales Frae the Doric Side, a collaboration between spoken word artist and writer Jo Gilbert, The Friends of Elphinstone, and the Elphinstone Institute at the University of Aberdeen. It was funded by Aberdeen City Council Creative Funding. The anthology was published through Doric Books – a community interest company dedicated to promoting NE Scots. CEO Jackie Ross said “Doric Books are fair trickit tae be publishin iss anthology. It's sairly needed fur e secondary skweels. It'll be gran tae hae a hantle o contemporary screivins in e Doric aat'll appeal tae teenagers an aulder fowk as weel.” For more information on publications by Sheena Blackhall visit http://sheenablackhall.blogspot.com or the on line catalogue of the National Library of Scotland www.nls.uk/catalogues/online/index/html. All of Blackhall’s poems in Scots & English are now uploaded on www.poemhunter.com . Her website can be found on 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 Thanks are due to Malfranteaux Concept for publishing this volume. Sheena Blackhall copyright March 2023

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

The Poems: Doppelganger

Title: Doppelganger (Pamphlet no 184)Front Cover: freepik evgeniibashta online Published by Malfranteaux Concepts Printed by Retro Overflow Copyright: Sheena Blackhall January 2023 Limited print run of 50 copies Our Sustainable Development Journey was written to perform at the visit by the Camilla, the Queen Consort to Aberdeen University on 19/1/23. The event was held to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of Her Majesty The Queen Consort as the University’s Chancellor. The event featured an update on the University's 2040 commitment to sustainability, highlighting current academic, operational and community initiatives. In Memoriam, Andrew Philip Watt was written to read as a tribute at the funeral of Philip Watt, farmer, New Deer, who was not only a kinsman but patriarch of the Philip family. With his wife Vicki he funded several of my poetry pamphlets. Two Doric Limericks were written in response to a request by Dan Ryder, a lyricist and painter who paints his own limericks as murals. His public work often focuses on the local culture and history of places. He intends to approach Nuart to seek a commission to paint one these limericks. Many of these poems were written on a writing retreat at Myres Castle led by Sukhema and Ratnadevi on Mindfulness & Tai Chi. Sheena Blackhall copyright Jan 2023

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.

The Poems: Scarecrow

Acknowledgements: Title: Scarecrow (Pamphlet no 182) Front Cover: Outstanding in the Field by ackeibler on Deviant Art Published by Malfranteaux Concepts Printed by Retro Overflow Copyright: Sheena Blackhall 2022 Limited print run of 50 copies The Poem Autumn IX was commissioned by the Scottish Poetry Library as part of my role as Scots Ambassador for Poetry. Letter tae Aiberdeen was written to perform at the Doric Festival in the Gallowgate kirk of St Margaret of Scotland. The Mystery o the Sheen was written to perform at the Tarland Food & Music Festival of 2022. Others were inspired by the Music Hall Art Exhibition of 2022. Sheena Blackhall copyright October 2022

The Poems: The Young Wife

Title: The Young Wife (pamphlet no 181). Front Cover: The Japanese Goddess by TechBehr on Deviant Art. Published by Malfranteaux Concepts Printed by Repro Overflow. copyright Sheena Blackhall September 1st 2022 Limited Edition of 50 copies

The Poems: Giraffe

Acknowledgements Title: Giraffe (Pamphlet no 180 ) Front Cover : by Jessica Blackhall, aged 11, (after a print by Steven Brown, Francie & Josie McZoo).Back Cover: by Winnie Blackhall aged 9, (after a floral design by Charles Rennie Mackintosh) Published by Malfranteaux Concepts Printed by Retro Overflow Copyright: Sheena Blackhall, August 2022 Anne Simpson, Chair, The Book of Deer Project SCIO has written to say that she hopes to use the Poem The Book of Deer, (with others) in print or via a performance at the end of summer. Permission has been given to the composer Annabel Kershaw to use the poem Solar Siblings within a choir composition for the Aberdeen Sound Festival. It is a choral piece and will be sung by the Aberdeen -based choir, Con Anima. The performance will be free to the public and will take place within the Aberdeen Art Gallery on 29th October at 3pm.