by Peter Reilly | Mar 15, 2020 | Uncategorised
Dear Visitor, Due to the current world health situation regarding the COVID-19 virus, we have taken the decision to close the cafe and tourist centre for approximately 21 days, as from Monday 16th March 2020. The wellbeing of our customers and staff is of...
by Emma Rose Miller | Mar 1, 2020 | Uncategorised
Welcome back to the Grassic Gibbon Centre and Cafe! Wet it was that spring: March came flooding in rains down the length and breadth of the guttering Howe; every night you’d hear the swash of the water if your place in the bed was next to the wall; the gulls...
by Emma Rose Miller | Jan 29, 2020 | Uncategorised
Albrecht Durer (German 1471-1528), National Galleries of Scotland “Flying is woman’s gesture-flying in language and making it fly.” In the previous two blogs, I wrote about how Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s texts have a remarkable feminine quality to them...
by Emma Rose Miller | Dec 8, 2019 | Uncategorised
J. Leslie Mitchell with daughter Rhea, Grassic Gibbon Centre What is feminine writing? What marks a feminine (not to be confused with female which refers to the sex of a writer) text? Though some particularly loud voices in society have not checked their science, we...
by Emma Rose Miller | Nov 25, 2019 | Uncategorised
First Editions, Grassic Gibbon Centre What’s in a name? For writers, names can hold so much meaning. An author must consider how they want to be publicly and professionally known to their readers. They must consider how the author name will look on a book cover and...
by Emma Rose Miller | Oct 30, 2019 | Uncategorised
Close, No. 80 High Street, from Old Closes and Streets of Glasgow by Thomas Annan (1868/71), Scottish National Portrait Gallery In the Thirteenth Disciple, Malcolm Maudsley asks “What are we going to do about it? What’s our job to help its beginning again in this...
