Lapidus Scotland has published a set of fourteen postcards, featuring work from members of our four writers groups, with the final selection made by Valerie Gillies. There will be readings from contributors, and Valerie will read poems from her recent project with photographer Rebecca Marr, When the Grass Dances.

Valerie Gillies is an internationally known and highly regarded poet. She was the Edinburgh Makar, poet laureate to the city, 2005 - 2008. Her poetry collections include Tweed Journey (1989), The Spring Teller (2008) and The Cream of the Well: New and selected poems (2015).

She often works collaboratively with visual artists, notably in a series of poem-inscriptions with different sculptors at sites in southern Scotland. The book Men and Beasts: Wild Men and Tame Animals of Scotland (2000), together with the touring exhibition of the same name, was the result of a year-long collaboration with the photographer Rebecca Marr.

Valerie is an inspirational teacher of creative writing in schools, colleges, and universities, and she has held several writing fellowships across the country. She was a literary arts practitioner in psychiatric and general hospitals with Artlink and is now a trainer with Lapidus.

https://www.valeriegillies.com/