This hands-on ekphrastic workshop is designed to encourage poets of all levels to explore the many connections between poetry and art.

To help poets find inspiration and new ways of thinking about and engaging with works of art by using creative language to create poetic responses to the work of George Macpherson RSA, showing in the exhibition: ‘Ceòl na Tìr-dhàimh | The Music of Home’, showing in the gallery from 28th March - 17th May.

Links between artistic techniques and poetry, such as shape, line, space, composition, image/imagery, and texture, will be explored through lively writing exercises. Please bring an energetic and curious mind.

In the Gallery Space at An Talla Solais, £45

Keren Macpherson trained as a painter at Edinburgh College of Art. She lived in the U.S. for 15 years mostly teaching and creating art. Keren completed her MLitt in Creative Writing with a Distinction in Poetry at Dundee University in 2015, has recently completed the MFA in Poetry at St. Andrews University and is currently undertaking a PhD in Poetry at St. Andrews. She has had several poems published in New Writing Dundee and Dundee Writes. Her work also appears in Seagate III, Scotia Extremis, and Poetry Scotland. Keren’s own pamphlet, ‘A Grazing Light’ was published by Mateznik Press in May 2024. She is one of three organisers of Platform Poetry in Fife. Keren’s poems often take an ekphrastic slant while others are of a more personal nature. In addition to her poetry and art Keren is a keen hill, trail and road runner.