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.
Wednesday 17 March 2021
The Poems : Skin(2)
Title: Skin (2) : Pamphlet no 165, Cover: a detail from Michaelangelo’s Last Judgement. Published by Malfranteaux Concepts. Printed by Retro Overflow Copyright: Sheena Blackhall 2021. The cover is a detail from Michaelangelo’s Last Judgement in the Sistine Chapel. It represents St Bartholomew holding his flayed skin, thought to be a portrait of Michaelangelo himself. In her Higher Art class Blackhall won the James McBey Art essay prize for her composition on Michaelangelo’s Last Judgement. March 2021
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