TWO poets previously published by the defunct Scottish publisher Freight are to have their poems re-published.
Harry Giles and Rachel McCrum are to have their collections published by award-winning pamphlet publisher Stewed Rhubarb.
Tonguit by Harry Giles – a collection shortlisted for both the Edwin Morgan Award and the Forward Prize for First Collection – and The First Blast to Awaken Women Degenerate by Rachel McCrum – former BBC Scotland Poet in Residence – have found a new home with the press.
Both be available in bookshops from this month.
The new edition of Tonguit is currently available to order from bookshops and online, and McCrum’s The First Blast to Awaken Women Degenerate will be released in May.
Stewed Rhubarb was founded in 2013, winning the Callum Macdonald Award for its first pamphlet, The Glassblower Dances by Rachel McCrum.
Since then, the imprint has published 16 pamphlets including playwright Jo Clifford and Scottish spoken-word artist Jenny Lindsay.
www.stewedrhubarb.org
A NETWORK and collective of black woman artists with members from around South Africa and Botswana, iQhiya, is to have a residency at the Transmission gallery in Glasgow for the GI Festival.
The work "responds to the lack of representation of Blackness in Scottish cultural programming."
iQhiya is not currently represented by any galleries.
The group is to create a "performative installation" entitled ‘Plenary’.
This exhibition is supported by Glasgow International, Creative Scotland and Glasgow Life.
www.transmissiongallery.org
A MAJOR exhibition at The Hunterian, University of Glasgow, has brought rare items from Harvard University’s to Scotland for the first time.
The Philosophy Chamber: Art and Science in Harvard’s Teaching Cabinet, 1766-1820, organised by the Harvard Art Museums, is now open at the Hunterian Art Gallery.
The show takes its name from Harvard’s ‘Philosophy Chamber’ - a room at Harvard College that, between 1766 and 1820, was home to more than one thousand artefacts, natural specimens and works of art from around the globe
The items are displayed in thematic sections dealing with exploration, teaching, ancient European and Native American civilizations and slavery.
The show runs until 15 July and admission is free.
www.glasgow.ac.uk/hunterian
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