A Poetical Meander Through The Hebrides
Wednesday, 14 May, 2025, 7 p.m.
An Evening With Ann MacKinnon
Community Hub Helensburgh, 116 E Princes St, Helensburgh G84 7DQ
Free entry and Refreshments

About Ann MacKinnon
Ann MacKinnon writes in both Scots and English. A New Scottish Writers’ Award led to a pamphlet called Nae Flooers being published by Tapsalteerie. She is widely published in anthologies and magazines.
She has been placed in the McCash Poetry Competition several times. In 2022, Modren Makars Yin was published by Tapsalteerie. It is a collaboration with two other poets of poems in Scots.
In 2022, she was nominated for the Scots Writer of the Year. Her most recent pamphlet is Warp and Weft, published by Red Squirrel Press.
Her publications include:
Warp and weft (Red Squirrel Press, 2023)
Nae flooers (Tapsalteerie, 2015)
Set in stone (Ann MacKinnon, 2013)
Still life (Ann MacKinnon, 2010)
Anthologies
Modren Makars: yin (Tapsalteerie, 2022)
City, town & village : a compilation by the Scottish Writers’ Centre – Scottish Writers’ Centre (Figment Books, 2020)
Talking about lobsters – edited by Gerry Cambridge and Diana Hendry (Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 2016)
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