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