Hunterian Gallery Poetry Launch: Hunter's Voices with Alan Riach

Hunter's Voices: Poems from The Hunterian Collection

Join an array of poets including Alan Riach for a reading of selected works from the third volume in The Hunterian Poems series: Hunter’s Voices.

Hunter’s Voices is an anthology of poems responding to paintings and objects in the gallery and museums of the Hunterian Collection at the University of Glasgow. Some of the finest poets of contemporary Scotland, writing in English, Scots and Gaelic languages, and in a variety of poetic forms, take us into the Hunterian spaces. Their poems are complemented by beautiful reproductions of paintings and objects from different centuries and around the globe.

The collection is not only a showcase for the Hunterian but also questions the priorities of museum and gallery acquisition. It celebrates the priority of educational resources and the aesthetic brilliance of works of art but also explores the enquiries and themes raised by the collection as a whole. And it is a demonstration of the ways in which poetry works to open an interrogation of the silence such objects and paintings normally reside within. It is a form of redress.

This latest edition features new writing from some of Scotland's leading poets, and presents a multi-faceted enquiry into Glasgow's Hunterian Collection as a whole – what it is, where it came from, what its value is, who pays the price, how it helps, what it means, and what its future might be.

Edited by Alan Riach, Professor of Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow, and featuring poetry from Lesley Benzie Colin Bramwell, Lynn Davidson, Gerrie Fellows, Bashabi Fraser, Anne Frater, Jane Goldman, David Kinloch, Hannah Lavery, Liz Lochhead, Marcas Mac an Tuairneir, Lindsay Macgregor, Pàdraig MacAoidh / Peter Mackay, Peter McCarey, Jeda Pearl, Richard Price, John Purser, Samuel Reilly, Alan Riach, Stewart Sanderson Ian Stephen, Em Strang & Samuel Tongue.