Theme: Blue Planet
Last Friday evening, the Whittaker Library hosted the 2018 Elaine Campbell Gullan
Poetry Competition. Here is the winner, Veera Lapinski, with the judge,
Iain Lowson. Vera not only performed but also wrote her winning poem. Many congratulations, Veera!
Followers of this blog will recall that Lillias Scott Forbes was to have appeared at an evening poetry reading in her honour, at the Whittaker Library in June this year. Sadly, indisposition prevented her appearance, but the audience still heard some of her poems, as well as music by her husband Erik Chisholm and father Francis George Scott, and poetry by Tom Hubbard.
It is with sadness that Whittaker Live notes the recent passing of Lillias Scott Forbes in St Andrews on 2nd October 2013. The announcement appeared in The Scotsman. on 5th October, and the funeral took place on Friday 11th October.
Lillias was reportedly delighted that her poetry was given a public reading at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, and it is lovely that the event jointly planned with Dr Margaret Bennett gave an old lady such pleasure, even if she was unable to attend in person.
Nonagenarian poet Lillias Scott Forbes talks to Tom Hubbard at the Whittaker Library's next event tomorrow, Tuesday 18th June at 4 pm.
Lillias is the daughter of composer Francis George Scott, whose compositions are represented in our Library. (He was active between the First and Second World Wars - read more about him in John Purser's Scotland's Music.) And Lilias was married to Erik Chisholm, a twentieth century Scottish composer who spent much of his adult life in South Africa.
You can read more about this epoch in Scotland's musical history in further books by Purser, but our poetry reading focuses on the work of Lillias and another poet published by Grace Note Publications, Tom Hubbard.
Lilias Scott Forbes - Views from the Bench
Tom Hubbard - The Chagall Winnocks
There will be musical input nonetheless, with high tenor James Lee Slimings singing, and playing a piano solo by Francis George Scott and Erik Chisholm.
Free admission, with light refreshments. Don't miss it!
Come and enjoy a peaceful
hour at the end of your working day - a poetry reading in the Whittaker
Library at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. We are proud to welcome
poets Lillias Scott Forbes and Tom Hubbard. There will also be live
music from singer/pianist James Slimings.
Tuesday 18th June, 2013, at 4 pm.
See you there!
