Visit Maya Angelou's website:- http://mayaangelou.com/
Whittaker decided to use our library subscription to Web of Knowledge, to find information about the late Maya Angelou, one of the great poets of our time. There's a wealth of info there. If you're part of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, search Web of Knowledge here.
Whittaker also came across this tribute on James Clear's website:-
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!
