The Hunterian Museum Poems

An Anthology of Poems to Paintings from the Collection of the Hunterian at the University of Glasgow. Edited by Merryn Glover
"A painting is an event. You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events." - Jack Yeats.
This anthology of poems is a showcase of the Hunterian's collection of paintings and a fascinating enquiry into the relations between the literary and visual arts, intellectually curious and charged with delight, full of unpredicted pleasures and wonders, opening deep questions, suggesting uncertainties, affirming resolutions.The book collects works by Scotland's national poets Liz Lochhead and Edwin Morgan and Glasgow's poet laureate Jim Carruth. In all, there are twenty-one of Scotland's best poets writing in Gaelic, Scots and English, including Stewart Conn, Meg Bateman, Gerda Stevenson, Elizabeth Burns, David Kinloch and Aonghas MacNeacail. Each poem addresses a range of artists and their works in unique illuminations and enquiries.The paintings, beautifully reproduced in the text, include works by J.D. Fergusson, Cadell and Peploe, Whistler, Chardin, Jan Steen and Joan Eardley; major figures in European and Scottish traditions.Edited by Alan Riach, Professor of Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow.