Acknowledgements.Title: The Shakers.Cover: cake shake free online. Published by Malfranteaux Concepts. Printed by Retro Overflow .Pamphlet no 224 Sheena Blackhall July 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.The WayWORD Festival's 2026 Ekphrastic Poetry Prize invites writers to pen poems inspired by the Aberdeen Artworlds: The Linklater Collection exhibition. The exhibit celebrates the 50th anniversary of Eric and Marjorie Linklater’s donation of modernist paintings to the University of Aberdeen. Three of these poems was inspired by this exhibition. The tale of the Twa Brithers was told at Aberdeen’s Festival of the Sea, in St Mary’s Chapel, by Sheena Blackhall, while the Muckle Coffin Scandal was told by Pauline Cordiner & Blackhall, with other grisly local stories.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 My path to nursing.c) Sheena Blackhall July 2026
