Participants: Alan Gillis

(Photo: Dilys Rose)

Alan Gillis is a Lecturer in English at the University of Edinburgh. Publications include Somebody, Somewhere (Gallery Press, 2004), which won the Rupert and Eithne Strong Award for Best First Collection, and Irish Poetry of the 1930s (Oxford University Press, 2005). His second collection, Hawks and Doves (Gallery Press, 2007), was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize.

StAnza 2009 Events:

Fri 20 March | Spinning Rhymes & Lines
Workshop: Alan Gillis: Structure and storytelling
St Mary's Hall, St Mary’s Quad, South Street

Fri 20 March | Past & Present
Alan Gillis on Wallace Stevens Jenny Bornholdt on Lorine Niedecker
The Town Hall, Queens Gardens – Council Chamber

Fri 20 March | Five O’Clock Verses
Reading: Julia Copus, Alan Gillis
Parliament Hall, South Street


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	Festival 2009 Information Events Participants Afterword Photo Gallery Archives Past Programmes Past Participants Past Virtual StAnza 2012 StAnza 2011 StAnza 2010 StAnza 2009 StAnza 2008 StAnza 2007 StAnza 2006 StAnza 2005	Participants: Alan Gillis (Photo: Dilys Rose) Alan Gillis is a Lecturer in English at the University of Edinburgh. Publications include Somebody, Somewhere (Gallery Press, 2004), which won the Rupert and Eithne Strong Award for Best First Collection, and Irish Poetry of the 1930s (Oxford University Press, 2005). His second collection, Hawks and Doves (Gallery Press, 2007), was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. StAnza 2009 Events: Fri 20 March \| Spinning Rhymes & Lines Workshop: Alan Gillis: Structure and storytelling St Mary's Hall, St Mary’s Quad, South Street Fri 20 March \| Past & Present Alan Gillis on Wallace Stevens Jenny Bornholdt on Lorine Niedecker The Town Hall, Queens Gardens – Council Chamber Fri 20 March \| Five O’Clock Verses Reading: Julia Copus, Alan Gillis Parliament Hall, South Street Back to top