Making Woundscape

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MAKING WOUNDSCAPE

An opportunity to hear Maria Sledmere talk about Woundscape: a creative response to Making Imagined Objects, the 2nd International Alasdair Gray Conference which happened in Glasgow, June 2022. This commission has been created by The Alasdair Gray Archive in partnership with Creative Writing at the University of Strathclyde.

30 spaces per session


Date: 10th March 2023

Time: 12-1pm

OR

1.30-2.30pm

Venue: The Alasdair Gray Archive, The Whisky Bond, Glasgow

Dr. Rodge Glass (Convener of the Gray conference & Gray’s biographer) will host this hour session in which Maria Sledmere will discuss her new work Woundscape (forthcoming from Osmosis Press). She wrote these poems live while in the audience at the Gray conference in June 2022, then developed them afterwards, as a creative response both to Gray’s own ‘Woundscape’ and to the various conference papers. At times interrogative, at times reflective or playful, these poems explore the art of the creative response, which was a key part of Gray’s model of ‘Making Imagined Things’ (the title of the conference). This event will focus on the process of making, with a reading from and discussion about Woundscape, alongside a participatory element for attendees. Maria will share her notebooks and drafts, and then invite attendees to respond creatively through ideas of response, process and making in flux. There will be an opportunity for a tour of The Alasdair Gray Archive after each session.

Period	10 Mar 2023
Event type	Workshop
Location	GlasgowShow on map
Degree of Recognition	Regional