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 180 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.
Thursday 25 March 2021
The Poems: (166) A Bard's Life
Sheena Blackhall, A Bard’s Life, paperback, 110pp, 210x135mm. ISBN 978-1-8384052-2-9 rrp £9.99 Published 2021 by Rymour Books, 45 Needless Road, Perth.PH2 OLE https://www.rymour.co.uk Cover design by Ian Spring Typeset in Bembo, printed & bound by Imprint Digital Seychelles Farm, Upton Pyne, Exteter. A CIP catalogue record for this book is availablefrom the British Library. Poet, scholar, singer, storyteller, artist; Sheena Blackhall is a prolific and much-admired author from the North-east of Scotland. This enthralling collection follows her life from rural Aberdeenshire to the far-flung corners of the world searching for poems. As the title, A Bard‘s Life, would suggest, it‘s a kind of autobiography. It‘s told as a sequence of poems and short stories, illustrated with family photos and her own drawings, with a preface by Alan Pence..
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