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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.