Aye Write: Beth Frieden – Acair san Talamh / Anchor in the Land

27 May 2023 12:45 pm

Beth Frieden will be launching her poetry pamphlet, Acair san Talamh / Anchor in the Land, published by Stewed Rhubarb Press, at Aye Write book festival.

In Acair san Talamh / Anchor in the land, Beth Frieden’s debut pamphlet of poems moves back and forth across the Atlantic to explore family and nature with humour and curiosity.  Written in Scottish Gaelic and English by an American immigrant to Scotland, these are poems that thrill in the wild and the intimate.

From the forests of New England to the tenements of Glasgow, these are intensely felt and finely honed poems of adventure, motherhood, dislocation and relocation; alive to the personal, political and linguistic questions that our homes ask of us.

Beth Frieden is a poet and an actress, and a mother. She grew up in the US and moved to Scotland in 2008, where she learned Gaelic. She writes in both English and Gaelic now, and received a New Scottish Writers Award in 2021 from the Scottish Book Trust, in association with the Gaelic Books Council.

This will be a bilingual event, with readings in both Gaelic and English.

Chaired by Meg Bateman.

Tickets cost £6.72.