Valerie Gillies is an internationally known and highly regarded poet. She was the Edinburgh Maker, poet laureate to the city, 2005 - 2008.

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Valerie Gillies is an inspirational teacher of creative writing in schools and universities. As a literary arts practitioner, she has worked in psychiatric and general hospitals with Artlink, and in community arts with Lapidus. She is co-editor of the Scottish Poetry Library’s first-ever interactive poetry map of Scotland, which pinpoints locations and living poets.

Gillies is the author of ten poetry collections and many award-wining volumes including Tweed Journey (1989), Each Bright Eye (1977), The Ringing Rock (1995) and The Lightning Tree (2002). In 2005, she received a Creative Scotland Award to write The Spring Teller—her poetic journey to lost springs and legendary sources, medieval well houses and healing waters.

Poems

Find poems by Valerie Gillies on her website and the Smith College Poetry Center website.

Biography

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