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Valerie GilliesValerie GilliesBack | Genres | Bibliography | Prizes and awards | Contact details | Related links | Printer-friendly version
BiographyValerie Gillies is the author of several poetry collections, including The Ringing Rock (1995), and, most recently, The Lightning Tree (2002). She teaches creative writing and has held writing fellowships throughout Scotland. Her work includes various projects with visual artists and musicians. The book Men and Beasts: Wild Men and Tame Animals of Scotland (2000), together with an exhibition of the same name at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital, was the result of a collaboration with photographer Rebecca Marr and was organised with hospital arts charity Artlink.
In 2005, Valerie Gillies won a Creative Scotland Award, and is working on a collection of poems entitled The Spring Teller, inspired by Scotland's springs and wells.
In 2005 she became Edinburgh Makar (Poet Laureate).
Genres (in alphabetical order)Poetry
BibliographyEach Bright Eye: Selected Poems 1971-1976 Canongate, 1977 Kim (York Notes) Longman, 1981 Bed of Stone Canongate, 1984 Tweed Journey Canongate, 1989 The Chanter's Tune Canongate, 1990 East Coast Writers (editor) East Lothian District Library, 1993 The Ringing Rock Scottish Cultural Press, 1995 Men and Beasts: Wild Men and Tame Animals of Scotland (with photographs by Rebecca Marr) Luath Press, 2000 The Lightning Tree Polygon, 2002
Prizes and awards2005 Creative Scotland Award
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