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Winner of the Wigtown Poetry Competition 2012. Published in Northwords Now, Southlight, poetandgeek, The Eildon Tree. New Writing Scotland. Commended in the Baker Prize and the Manchester Writing for Children Poetry Prize 2014. In 2017 Jane read two of her poems at poetry readings in the City Arts Centre. Her poem 'After the sun,before the stars' will be performed during the DUSK Solstice Festival 2017. (Copyright held by Jane Aldous on all original material unless credited to other authors.)

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April 13, 2014

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DUSK Solstice Shorts Festival 2017

December 14, 2017

DUSK: Solstice Shorts 2017 Originating in Greenwich, on the Prime Meridian, and now in its 4th year, Solstice Shorts is going nationwide. The theme this year is Dusk, that time between day and night when everything changes. On 21st December Dusk starts in the UK in the far NE (Shetland) at 16:53 and finishes in the far SW (Cornwall) at 18:21 , taking between 40 and 50 minutes depending where you are. We have twelve sites across the UK all reading/singing different material (chosen by us, read by actors/ sung by musicians) starting In Ellon, Aberdeenshire and ending In Redruth, Cornwall , taking in key spots in between. All events BSL Interpreted Tickets : Generally by donation, suggested £3, but there are exceptions where this is part of a bigger event. The performances will match the timing of (Astronomical) Dusk exactly, with a live stream on Facebook....

Tribute to Tessa Ransford (1938 - 2015)

September 06, 2015

Very sad news this week that Tessa Ransford has died. She was the founder of the Scottish Poetry Library and other significant initiatives to enable poetry to flourish in Scotland including Scottish Pamphlet Poetry and the Callum Macdonald Memorial Award. I only met Tessa once very briefly but I'm aware that so much of her life was devoted to developing resources for poets and poetry in her adopted country. Demonstrably she was a dynamic, creative person and a force for good who will be greatly missed. The first poem in her collection 'When it Works it feels like play' 1998 is 'The Shepherd of Remedello'. Thank you Tessa Ransford for everything you did for poetry in Scotland. The Shepherd of Remedello (The prehistoric man found at Hauslabjoch the Otztal Alps on 19 September 1991) He went to sleep for five thousand years not expecting a resurrection high on the ridge where he tended flocks with grass-woven cloak and birch tinderbox copper axe and flintst...