ROSEANNE Watt has won the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award, it was announced last night.
She is the third poet to win an award set up by the late Makar, Edwin Morgan, to support poets who are 30 years of age and under.
With an award of £20,000, the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award is one of the largest literary prizes in the UK.
Ms Watt is a poet, filmmaker and musician from Shetland.
She is poetry editor for the online literary magazine The Island Review and was the winner of the 2015 Outspoken Poetry Prize (Poetry in Film) and runner-up in the 2018 Aesthetica Creative Writing Award.
She lives and works in Edinburgh.
The judges were novelist Janice Galloway and poet John Glenday.
Ms Galloway says of Watt that: "Her poems are built from the sight, sound and heartbeat of land as much as from the sea and salted-away memory, alongside which we find the most complex and mysterious of human experiences.
"It is a celebration of language, place and the mystery of being alive, alive, alive."
Mr Glenday added: "There’s a remarkably mature intelligence at work in these profound, assured and wilfully spare poems—Roseanne Watt’s is a truly individual and welcome voice."
Professor James McGonigal, chair of the Edwin Morgan Trust, said: "Not only did the number of entries increase for the third award, new and different voices from across Scotland were revealed.
"The judges combined diligence, sensitivity and their extensive professional experience in selecting five of these anonymous collections as worthy finalists. We are most grateful to them, and to all the entrants."
www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk
GLASGOW's Citizens Theatre will host their first 50p ticket sale at their temporary but new home at Tramway, the arts venue in the city's south side.
The tickets are for Cyrano de Bergerac, a co-production with the National Theatre of Scotland and Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh.
The Gorbals theatre building is closed for a two year redevelopment, and while it is shut, the Citizens Theatre is to present work at the nearby Tramway venue.
The first performance will be Cyrano de Bergerac which has been given "a Glaswegian heart" in a new production directed by Dominic Hill.
One hundred tickets across 10 performances will be available from the Tramway.
Customers will be able to buy a maximum of two tickets per person which must be paid for in cash.
Over 3,500 50p tickets have been sold since Mr Hill revived the 50p ticket offer in his first season at the Citizens Theatre in 2012. www.citz.co.uk.
NOMINATIONS have opened for an award that honours a teacher or librarian that has greatly influenced the reading habits of a community.
The Scottish Book Trust’s Learning Professional Award 2019 has opened for its third year.
School teachers and librarians are able to nominate "inspiring colleagues who are passionate advocates of reading and writing in their place of work."
Eileen Littlewood, Head Teacher of Forthview Primary School in Edinburgh, received the 2018 Learning Professional Award.
Marc Lambert, chief executive at Scottish Book Trust, said: "Teachers and librarians are the backbone of any strong reading culture in the life of young people and adults."
www.scottishbooktrust.com/sbta
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