Baxter Park (Dundee Central Library: Alexander Wilson Collection.) Plenty of Stobsfest events taking place here too!
On Monday, as part of Stobswell’s community festival, I’ll be doing an event with local folk singer Lynne Campbell celebrating Dundee’s songs, stories and characters (real and mythical) – it’s at Arthurstone Community Library at 7pm on Monday. I’ve heard there may be tea and biscuits. There will definitely be ghosts.
Later in the month, (24 May) Literary Dundee hosts Dr Juliet Shields at the Verdant Works for When Scotswomen Ran The Press – a talk exploring the 19th century women who wrote hugely popular stories for papers like the People’s Journal and People’s Friend. Their influence is often forgotten, but they shaped both fiction and the press in Scotland.
As it’s Council Elections week (have you voted yet?!) I’ve also got a blog on political poetry about Dundee City Council on The People’s Voice’s website – this is a project looking at political poetry, song and the franchise in Scotland between 1832 and 1918, based at the University of Glasgow. The word on the pavey is that they have some very exciting things coming up including (as the Poet’s Box would say) SONGS, SONGS, SONGS! So get them followed if you like that sort of thing.
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