Tag: Creative Writing
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Based in Scotland, I travel anywhere to perform, speak or lecture at festivals, conferences, schools and other events. Please get in touch below to discuss your needs. N.B. Scottish events / residencies can be part-funded via the Scottish Book Trust Live Literature Programme – author profile. Blue: a lament for the sea Spoken Word by Liz MacWhirter, Film… Continue reading New event bookings
Yale University
At the 2023 Yale University Graduate Conference of Religion & Ecology (GCRE) I performed Blue: a lament for the sea. I also gave a paper on the development of its poetics. Many thanks to Yale Institute of Sacred Music for their honoraria payment for my performed reading, and to the whole team at GCRE. The… Continue reading Yale University
Blue; a lament for the sea
UPDATED OCTOBER 2025: OUT NOW, A POETRY PAMPHLET PUBLISHED BY STEWED RHUBARB PRESS £6 Blue: a lament for the sea is one woman's journey through the interstices of land and sea, grief and love. The medieval Gaelic myth of the Isle of Iona escaping an apocalyptic flood infuses this contemporary lyric epic in free verse.… Continue reading Blue; a lament for the sea
A poesis with dreamy medieval poetics at ‘Finncon’, Helsinki, 2022
Mid-way through my PhD is proving to be an exciting, generative time. Not least for the opportunities to give papers at international conferences such as Finncon in Finland. My visit to Aalto University in Helsinki was supported by a College of Arts Research Support Award and Publishing Scotland’s Author International Travel Fund. ‘Hope and Resilience’… Continue reading A poesis with dreamy medieval poetics at ‘Finncon’, Helsinki, 2022
Liz MacWhirter Novelist & Poet 