Mondays 12:00-2:00 PM
September 27 through November 15, 2004
D.O.C. House
We will read some well-known poems by Robert Burns to get us started and then move quickly from the eighteenth to the twentieth century reading poems by Edwin Muir, Norman Maccaig, the Gaelic poet Sorley Maclean, the Orcadian George Mackay Brown, newly appointed Poet Laureate Edwin Morgan, the Gaelic speaker Iain Crichton Smith, and expatriates Alistair Reid and Kenneth White. Contemporary poets Liz Lochhead, Valerie Gillies, Kathleen Jamie, John Burnside and others will bring us up to date. Expect to become acquainted with the concerns and culture of modern Scotland and to read some passionate Celtic poetry. Most poems will be in English; some will be translated from Gaelic, others will have a greater or lesser amount of Scots which will be translated with a Scots dictionary.
Class is limited to 16 members.
ANNE SHIVAS is a Scot, a poet and a Vermont resident. She grew up in and received her B.Ed(Hons) in Edinburgh and her MA in philosophy of education in London. She lived in Jerusalem, Israel for ten years before coming to the Upper Valley. Dance, photography and painting are part of her arts background.
