Kirsten MacQuarrie
- Aug 24
- 1 min
'Agnes': writing witchcraft in The Golden Hours (Edinburgh Literary Salon)
'Prick.' The small army of men gathered around us gasps. He simply stares. Vision blurred from their blows, still I sense a pallor...
Kirsten MacQuarrie
- Aug 19
- 1 min
As woman is, so she sees - writing for Bluestocking Oxford
'Powered by personal poetic spirit, Dr Kathleen Raine’s innovative research offered a key with which readers could unlock William Blake’s...
Kirsten MacQuarrie
- Apr 24
- 2 min
Happy 115th Birthday Kathleen Raine at the Scottish Poetry Library
'Traced on the wild that legendary land More ancient than song or story or carved stone My mother and her mother's mother knew: the green...
Kirsten MacQuarrie
- Apr 8
- 2 min
Women's Voices with Sara Sheridan at the Soutar Festival of Words 2023
‘This is such a large part of the life of almost any woman that I venture to record it for those who do not know, not for those who do....
Kirsten MacQuarrie
- Feb 10
- 1 min
LGBTQ+ History Month at the Scottish Poetry Library
She was in love. There was no turning back. She took her letters to the library and read them in between her book, so that she could read...
Kirsten MacQuarrie
- Jun 30, 2019
- 3 min
Ellen and Arbor: the big book blog!
Hi everyone! I hope the sun is shining wherever you are (but not too hard - if you’re anything like Miss Gypsy, you won’t want to walk...
Kirsten MacQuarrie
- Jun 1, 2019
- 5 min
Gemini Gems! My Monthly Favourites for June
Hello there, my little Junebugs! Truth be told, I tried to begin this blog in May (and in April too!) I've been so busy polishing up the...
Kirsten MacQuarrie
- Mar 18, 2019
- 4 min
da Vinci Daydreams: Visiting Leonardo 500
Hi everyone! I hope you're having a good month now that spring has (very nearly) sprung! As you can see from my latest vlog, I recently...