Same City, Different Maps

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Glasgow University and the Glasgow School of Art are launching an anthology of creative writing, Tip Tap Flat. The working title for the anthology was “Same City, Different Maps”, and the theme is the city of Glasgow. I am lucky enough to have three poems in there, including a work-in-progress called “Three Rivers”, based around the rivers Clyde, Kevin and Cart (the White Cart and Black Cart join as they flow into the Clyde) which I am hoping to expand into a much larger work. Feels great to have in-progress stuff out there, and to be part of a Glasgow dialogue in a place which I call home, but which doesn’t recognise my accent! It should be coming out around June, more news to follow.

Slideshow – “Glasgow Rivers, their legend and their lore”: a gem of a book, which I’ll be using in my research for the expanded poem, an early version of which is being published soon; Map of Gilmorehil, 1795; (c) Tom Pattison – frozen River Cart at Anchor Mill; (c) Gavin Ross – Kingston Bridge, River Clyde; (c) Neilston Webcam – The River Kelvin.

About Pedalling Poetry

Writer Ellen McAteer is founder of Tell It Slant poetry bookshop in Glasgow, General Manager at Poetry London magazine. She was a visiting lecturer at the Glasgow School of Art, and a mentee of the Clydebuilt Verse Apprenticeship Scheme, under Alexander Hutchison, and a singer with the band Stone Tape, as well as a solo singer who won a BBC Radio competition with her song Blue Valentine. She was Director of the Poetry Trust, which ran the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival, a director of the Scottish Writers’ Centre, a visiting lecturer at Oxford University's MSt in creative writing, and a member of the core group of performers at the Hammer and Tongue spoken word collective in Oxford. She is a qualified Librarian.

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