Poems and Painting
Published: 8 December 2014
The Hunterian Friends are celebrating a successful and unique evening at the gallery which combined some of the masterpieces of the collection with contemporary Scottish poetry.
The Hunterian Friends are celebrating a successful and unique evening at the gallery which combined some of the masterpieces of the collection with contemporary Scottish poetry.
Members of the public, Hunterian Friends and members of University staff gathered for a unique evening last Thursday which saw live readings by some of Scotland's best known poets.
The event was aimed at exploring how artists and poets draw inspiration from each other and various common sources. Focusing on the Hunterian's Scottish Art collection, Professor Alan Riach from the Scottish Literature Department read works by a variety of poets and writers. But he was also joined by some of those who contributed to the anthology "The Hunterian Poems".
The poets had been asked to select a painting of their choice from the Hunterian collection and to let their imagination run free: the result is a collection including poems from Alan Riach himself, Liz Lochhead, Jim Carruth, Stewart Conn, John Glenday and many more.
Stays with them and turns them, and counter-turns, long
As the ages. - Their health is ideal.
What Fergusson says, though, is: This is for real."
(extract from "The Dancers", Alan Riach)
First published: 8 December 2014
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