Paintings and Poyums: An Evening of Scots Language
Paintings and Poyums: An Evening of Scots Language
The Hunterian
Date: Thursday 11 July 2024
Time: 18:00 - 19:30
Venue: Hunterian Art Gallery
Category: Hunterian
Speaker: Poets Len Pennie and Alan Riach
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Celebrate the Scots language at the Hunterian Art Gallery and enjoy an evening of live music, paintings and poetry readings. We are delighted to be joined by award-winning Scottish poet Len Pennie, who'll be reading from her debut poetry collection and instant Sunday Times bestseller 'Poyums'.
Len will be joined by poet and professor Alan Riach, who'll be reading a selection of works from The Hunterian Poetry Anthology. In conversation with Alan, Len will discuss her writing and the influence and importance of the Scots language.
*Refreshments will be served*
Len Pennie sprang into the public eye in 2020 with her Scots Word of the Day, and quickly developed a following for her fierce, feminist poetry. Pennie is a poet who writes predominantly in the Scots language. She writes passionately about the promotion of minority languages, classicism, survivors of domestic abuse and the destigmatisation of mental illness. Pennie now has over 650k followers on TikTok alone, with hundreds of thousands more on Instagram and X (formerly Twitter).
Alan Riach was born in Airdrie and educated at Cambridge and Glasgow. He went to the University of Waikato, New Zealand, as Associate Professor in 1986 and returned to Scotland in 2001 as Reader in the Department of Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow, where he is now Professor. He is the author of works of criticism on the poetry of Hugh MacDiarmid, editor of MacDiarmid’s collected works for Carcanet Press, and has written and edited several volumes on twentieth century Scottish literature. Riach has published six collections of his own poetry and has recently worked on English-language versions of 18th-century Gaelic poems.