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By the same author: Poetry If This Were Real (Smokestack Books, 2013) Se Questo Fosse Vero / If This Were Real (Edizioni Ensemble, Rome, 2017) Inside & Out: The Art of Christian Small, with an introduction and poems by Gerda Stevenson (Lyne Press, 2018, Scotland Street Press, 2019) Edinburgh (Allan Wright Photographic, 2019) Plays for stage Pentlands At War, a community play, co-written with the Pentlands Writers’ Group (Scottish Borders Council Library Services, 2006) Federer Versus Murray (Salmagundi, usa, 2012) Skeleton Wumman (2014) Out of Eden, a collaboration with artist Gwen Hardie (2017) The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, an opera libretto, with composer Dee Isaacs, for the University of Edinburgh (2018) Plays for bbc radio Island Blue, co-written with Iain Finlay MacLeod (2007) The Apple Tree (2011) Secrets (2011) Homeless (2013) A Day Off (2015) Room For Refugees (2017) For children The Candlemaker and Other Stories, illustrated by the author (Kahn & Averill, 1987) 2
Praise for Quines ‘Gerda Stevenson’s fabulous Quines – the old Aberdonian word for women – which takes us through a vivid, moving history of outstanding Scottish women in poetry. It’s a groundbreaker of a book, rich and resonant, strong of voice.’ Jackie Kay, Best Summer Books, 2018, the observer ‘An inspiring collection, celebrating Scottish women throughout the ages… ranging from queens to fish-gutters and, chronologically, from a 5,000-year-old reconstructed head in a Shetland museum to the only recently departed Tessa Ransford of the Scottish Poetry Library. The challenge of writing so many poems on a theme and keeping them all distinct from each other is a mammoth undertaking, but Stevenson is more than up to the task, taking on a variety of styles, voices and perspectives… not only an absorbing and uplifting book but educational too.’ Alastair Mabbott, sunday herald ‘Gerda Stevenson’s brilliant collection, Quines.’ The Best of Scottish Books, books from scotland ‘This is a project of dazzling literary scope and vision. These poems entertain but they also educate. The collection shines a radiant light into the dark corners of unwritten women’s history. It has been reported that Stevenson would love a copy of Quines to go into every Scottish high school and university. I can’t think of a more worthy ambition.’ Sue Whisler, dundee university review of the arts ‘Although Gerda Stevenson is a hugely distinguished actor, director, musician and playwright, her poetry is less wellknown. Her second collection Quines will surely change that.’ the morning star 3
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