Main information
- Date:
- Sunday 6 October 2024
- Time:
- 9:45 am
- Location:
- Blairgowrie Community Campus PH10 6UZ
- Price:
- £10
- Author:
- Paul S Philippou
- Author:
- Philippa (Pip) Osmond-Williams
- Author:
- Ian Spring
- Author:
- Billy Kay
A Celebration of William Soutar - 9.45 - 10.30 with Dr Paul S Philippou, Dr Phillipa Osmond-Williams and Ian Spring. William was born in Perth in 1898 and educated at Perth Academy and Edinburgh University. He served in the Royal Navy during WW1 where he fell ill with spondylitis, and later became housebound. Today we celebrate his poetry, written in both English and Scots, in an event curated by Tippermuir Press. www.williamsoutar.com
Dr Philippou is a director of Tippermuir Books, a not-for-profit publishing company based in Perth, is coordinator of madeinperth.org a popular local history website and director of the Soutar Project, a Scottish government-funded project with the remit to publish the Complete Poems of William Soutar. He has recently been appointed to the Centre for Scottish Culture, University of Dundee.
Our thanks to the Poetry Association of Scotland for sponsoring this event
Billy Kay - 10.45-11.15 Born in Kyle: written in Scots and full of great stories, Billy goes back to his own linguistic and cultural roots and celebrates a sense of place and belonging in his native Galston in Ayrshire's Irvine Valley.
Tickets available from:
Treasurer Rhona Christie 01250 875613
or
rhona.maclean@yahoo.co.uk
Adventure into Books - 01250 872852
Blairgowrie Library - 01250 871305
or Perthshire Box Office- 01738 477743
