Quines
Poems in tribute to women of Scotland
Published on 8. April 2020
225 pages
978-1-912387-78-6 (ISBN)
Description
Singers, politicians, a fish-gutter, queens, a dancer, a marine engineer, a salt seller, sportswomen, scientists and many more - Quines celebrates and explores the richly diverse contribution women have made to Scottish history and society.
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GERDA STEVENSON is an award-winning writer, actor, theatre director and singer-songwriter. She has worked on stage, television, radio, film and in opera, throughout the UK and abroad. She is a recipient of Scottish Arts Council and Creative Scotland writers' bursaries, won the YES Arts Festival Poetry Challenge in 2013, and the Robert Tannahill Poetry Prize in 2017. She has written extensively for radio, including original plays and dramatisations of Scottish novels. Her first poetry collection, If This Were Real (Smokestack Books, 2013), was published in 2017 by Edizioni Ensemble, Rome, as Se Questo Fosse Vero, translated into Italian by Laura Maniero. A seasoned performer, she won a bafta Best Film Actress award for her role in Margaret Tait's feature film Blue Black Permanent, and is the founder of Stellar Quines, Scotland's leading women's theatre company.
Content
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Introduction
- Prologue:
- Reconstructed Head of a Young Woman
- Quines:
- Nessie
- Sgàthach
- Teneu
- Unn the Deep-Minded
- Saint Margaret
- The Dwaum Isabella MacDuff, Countess of Buchan
- Queen o the Bean Mary Fleming
- The Abdication of Mary Queen of Scots
- Nine Haiku for Esther Inglis
- A Dochter's Dreame Elizabeth Melville
- The Killing Times Margaret Wilson
- 'Columbine' Cameron Jean Cameron
- Hauf-hingit Maggie Maggie Dickson
- 'A Curious Herbal' Muses Elizabeth Blackwell
- It's Aye Sang wi Me Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne
- Self-Control Promotes Herself Mary Brunton
- In Her Ninety-Second Year Mary Somerville
- Captain Betsy Miller's Fareweel tae Clytus
- Terpsichore Reflects on Her Master Maud Sulter
- Fanny Wright Meditates on Mary Shelley's Death
- Demerara Eliza Junor
- Seeing Red Helen Macfarlane
- Òran / Song Mary MacPherson
- Mary Slessor Takes St Paul to Task
- Janie Annan Slessor Keeps Vigil
- Horsehead Nebula Speaks Williamina Paton Fleming
- Scotland Celebrates 3-0 at Easter Road
- My Birth in Her Hands Margaret Macdonald
- Skull Isabel Emslie Hutton
- Diva Mary Garden
- Rest Time in the Life Class Dorothy Johnstone
- Helen Crawfurd's Memoirs in Seven Chapters
- The Scaur Ethel Baxter
- Ma Ain Country Violet Jacob
- Elsie Inglis Prepares for Her Last Journey
- Justice, Persons and Peace Chrystal Macmillan
- The Red Duchess Katharine Stewart-Murray
- Jane Haining
- SS Bonita Praises Victoria Drummond
- The River Kens Nancy Riach
- The Penny Pledge Ena Lamont Stewart
- At Miss Eardley's Joan Eardley
- 'Admiral of the Bering' Recalls Alaska Isobel Wylie Hutchison
- The Flyting of the Red Shoes and Blue Shoes Moira Shearer
- Anna Buchan's Obituary
- Mairi Anndra Gives Thanks to Margaret Fay Shaw
- I am Jennie Lee's Open University
- All It Takes Margaret Blackwood
- The Ballad of Craigmillar Helen Crummy
- What a Voice Lizzie Higgins
- Margaret Tait's Portrait of Ga
- A Megan Boyd Fishing Fly for Prince Charles, July, 1981
- Maggie's Centre, Edinburgh, Tells of Its Conception and Growth Maggie Keswick Jencks
- Daith Salutes Margo MacDonald
- Kantha Sari Heirloom Mina Ray
- Orkney Recalls Gunnie Gunnie Moberg
- The Living Mountain Addresses a £5 Banknote Nan Shepherd
- Rose Stalks in Snow Christian Small
- And the Women's Coalition Danced Elizabeth Meehan
- Tessa Thinks the Scottish Poetry Library Tessa Ransford
- Epilogue:
- In Memoriam Catriona White and Great Tapestry of Scotland stitchers
- Glossary (Scots and Gaelic)
- Further Reading
