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Valerie Gillies is the author of several poetry collections, including The Ringing Rock (1995), and 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). |
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