Ian Hamilton Finlay, The Present Order (1983).
With acknowledgements to Wild Hawthorn Press and the Little Sparta Trust

Poetry and the Referendum: 2014 and After

25, February 2016, 6.30-8 pm, free.
The Scottish Poetry Library, 5 Crichton's Close, Canongate, EH8 8DT

The 2014 Scottish Independence Referendum was remarkable, amongst other reasons, for generating a wave of poetic and creative responses across a range of genres and media. At the second of our 2016 seminars we will explore and present some of these responses, touching on the referendum’s creative, cultural, and political legacies. Poet and artist Alec Finlay will give a performance based around his recent poem composed from submissions to the post-referendum Smith Commission, while archivist and art historian Amy Todman will discuss her project collating creative responses to the Referendum at the National Library of Scotland.

Book tickets through the Scottish Poetry Library Eventbrite page

Speaker Abstracts and Biographies

Alec Finlay
"a better tale to: a found poem composed from individual submissions to the Smith Commission"

Biographical Note
Alec Finlay an artist and poet whose work crosses a range of media and forms. His work documenting The Smith Commission was included in The Shock of Victory (CCA, Glasgow). He recently completed work on the world's first poetic primer on marine renewable energy, Ebban an' Flowan. Alec has exhibited at BALTIC, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, and the Sydney Biennale. He has published over 30 books.

Amy Todman
"Poetry and the 2014 Scottish Independence Referendum: An Archivist's View"
This talk will consider the role of poetry and the wider arts community in the Scottish Independence Referendum through an archival lens, drawing on experiences gained from 'Collecting the Referendum' at the National Library of Scotland.

Biographical Note
Amy Todman is currently Referendum Curator at the National Library of Scotland where she works to identify, collect, preserve and make available material in a range of formats - including published and unpublished material in print and digital format, websites and social media, moving image and sound - that relate to the recent Scottish Independence Referendum. She holds a fine art degree, an MLitt in the history of collecting, and a PhD in art history, which explores the development of drawing and the landscape idea in Britain during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. She has also worked in a wide range of arts, education, community and heritage settings.
 

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