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Coming Soon:
Brian Whittingham's new poetry collection

Clocking In: Clocking Out
poems and photographs on the subject of work

Click Here to watch a short film of Brian reading from his previous collection, Bunnets and Bowlers,
for a BBC documentary

Brian Whittingham's
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(Commissions Considered on All Types of Photography Contact Brian)

ABOUT BRIAN WHITTINGHAM

Brian Whittingham, poet, fiction writer, editor and playwrite & ex-steelworker/draftsman, born and lives in Glasgow. He has published Six poetry collections, the most recent being BUNNETS N BOWLERS – a Clydside Odyssey (Luath Press) a collection of poems from his early days working as an apprentice and then draughtsman in the Glasgow shipyards. DRINK THE GREEN FAIRY (Luath Press). SEPTIMUS PITT & THE GRUMBLEOIDS (also Luath). Brian has written 4 plays and has had various short fiction published. He is currently co-editor of New Writing Scotland.

As a tutor, teacher, facilitator and lecturer he delivers workshops to varied client groups such as primary & secondary school pupils, further education students, community groups, senior citizens, mental health groups, addiction recovery groups, reminiscing groups etc. in venues as varied as schools, colleges, museums, art-galleries, libraries, prisons, WW2 settings and drop-in centres.

BRIAN WELCOMES COMMISSIONS in all aspects of creative writing. He specialises in POETRY, FICTION, DRAMA and EDITING. Commissions can be, for example, one off sessions, or weekly structured courses to vocational or non-vocational standards. Some of his workshops have consisted of teenagers writing poems in the sand on the Normandy beaches, senior citizens writing their memories whilst sitting in tramcars in Glasgow's Transport Museum, youngsters writing plant poems in Glasgow's Winter Gardens and Hawaiian students writing dialect pieces in Seattle University.

Brian has edited literary magazines and anthologies and has wide experience of reading from his own works both in the uk and abroad.

Image © Jim Dunn 2006

In this photograph Brian and some P7 pupils investigated Ross Sinclar's DEAD CHURCH in Glasgow's Gallery Of Modern Art (pictured above). They walked round it, touched it, sniffed it, listened to the noise of it, tasted the air of it, watched others looking at it, asked the why of it, then gave their imaginations licence to make free reign of it, to reach inside and ask themselves what they saw in it. Then they wrote their poems.