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Quines: Poems in tribute to women of Scotland gives voice to 57 women from BC to the 21st century. The ‘voices’ of the poems range from those of the women featured, to inanimate objects – queens, politicians, a ship, a fish gutter, scientists, a mountain, sportswomen (including a whole football team) and many more. QUINES celebrates the richly diverse contribution women have made to Scottish history and society.
Quines: Poems in tribute to women of Scotland gives voice to 57 women from BC to the 21st century. The ‘voices’ of the poems range from those of the women featured, to inanimate objects – queens, politicians, a ship, a fish gutter, scientists, a mountain, sportswomen (including a whole football team) and many more. QUINES celebrates the richly diverse contribution women have made to Scottish history and society.
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Acknowledgements<br />
several poems in this collection have appeared in the following<br />
publications: PENning Magazine; Scotia Nova (Luath Press);<br />
Authors’ Reading Month anthology (Czech Republic); Hunterian<br />
Poems (Freight Books); Umbrellas of Edinburgh (Freight Books);<br />
Northwords Now; Scots Language Centre.com; L’Ombra delle<br />
Parole Rivista; scotiaextremis.wordpress.com; Dangerous Women<br />
Project, iash, University of Edinburgh; the Gunnie Moberg Archive;<br />
Read Raw Ltd; The One o’ Clock Gun; Elsie Inglis and the<br />
Scottish Women Hospitals (ww100 Scotland); Edinburgh (Allan<br />
Wright Photographic).<br />
Thanks to: my family, friends and colleagues for their<br />
suggestions, support and patience – in particular: my parents<br />
Marjorie and Ronald <strong>Stevenson</strong>; Aonghas, Rob and Galina<br />
MacNeacail; Anna-Wendy <strong>Stevenson</strong>; Jenny Alldridge; Professor<br />
Meg Bateman of Sabhal Mor Ostaig (uhi); David Betteridge;<br />
Dr Michel Byrne; Chloe Cheeseman; Andy Croft of Smokestack<br />
Books; Lorna Davidson (former Director of New Lanark Trust);<br />
Sally Evans; Professor Marco Fazzini of Ca’ Foscari University,<br />
Venice; Oriana and Maurice Franceschi; Bashabi Fraser; Simon<br />
Fraser; Glasgow Women’s Library; Richard Holloway; Gwyneth<br />
Hoyle; Baroness Helena Kennedy, qc; Dolina Maclennan; Laura<br />
Maniero; Rebecca Marr of the Gunnie Moberg Archive; Dr Sarah<br />
Neely of the University of Stirling; Alex Norton; John Quinn<br />
and Professor Gina Wall of Glasgow School of Art; Professor<br />
Alan Riach of the University of Glasgow; Lesley Riddoch; Juliet<br />
<strong>Stevenson</strong>; Zillah Jamieson, Ab<strong>by</strong> Richards and Ken Thomson of<br />
the National Wallace Monument’s Scotland’s Heroines project; Dr<br />
Louise Yeoman.<br />
I am deeply indebted to Dr Jamie Reid Baxter for his generous<br />
editorial assistance and encouragement over a sustained period,<br />
which has been invaluable.<br />
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