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The Bone Folder: book launch and live poetry readings, Cáit O’Neill McCullagh and guests
Date
Thursday 17 April
Time
5:30pm-6:30pm
Location
Central Library
Event details
Join us at Central Library as poet Cáit O’Neill McCullagh introduces and reads from her new poetry collection The Bone Folder. Cáit will be joined by local poets Chris Powici and Charlie Gracie, and the wonderful Morag Anderson, who will be reading alongside.
About Cáit O’Neill McCullagh
Cáit O’Neill McCullagh is a published poet and essayist, and an experienced educator in community and Higher Education settings. She has worked throughout the Highlands and Islands as a public ethnologist and archaeologist. Originating from Kerry, in south west Ireland, and a childhood in London, Cáit, has lived in the Highlands since she was a teenager. At her home in Easter Ross, she is completing a PhD thesis with Heriot-Watt University that is based on an extended period of ‘creative ethnology’ conducted while working and living in island communities across Orkney and Shetland.
About Charlie Gracie
Charlie Gracie grew up in Baillieston, Glasgow and now lives in Thornhill, north of Stirling. Charlie has four publications: a novel, short stories and poetry. His latest collection of poetry and short prose, Belfast to Baillieston, an industrial and family narrative, was published by Red Squirrel Press, who will publish his forthcoming pamphlet, a collaboration with Mairi Murphy and Donal McLaughlin.
About Chris Powici
Chris Powici lives in Perthshire, where he writes poems and essays. He has taught creative writing at The University of Stirling and The Open University, and is co-editor of New Writing Scotland. Chris is one of the people behind Paperboats (paperboats.org), a bunch of writers campaigning for action on climate change and other ecological threats. His latest poetry collection is Look, Breathe (Red Squirrel Press).
About Morag Anderson
Morag Anderson’s second chapbook, And I Will Make of You a Vowel Sound (Fly on the Wall Press, 2024), won the Aryamati Poetry Prize and was described by TS Eliot Prize-winning poet Joelle Taylor as Delicate and furious…a haunting act of worship, of rebellion.
She was poet-in-residence for the 2024 Birnam Book Festival and Creative Brain Week 2024, Trinity College, Dublin. Recent commissions include The Scottish Poetry Library, The Canmore Suicide Prevention Trust, The National Trust for Scotland, and Perth Festival of the Arts.
Morag is currently a delegate on Arvon’s two-year Advanced Writing Programme.
Free event. To book contact Central Library on tel. 01786 237760, or email centrallibrary@stirling.gov.uk
Book sales cash only.