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NEW WORK: MAIDEN MOTHER MAGE - booking open
Supported by Creative Scotland, RS' new work will be performed at Culross Abbey, Fife in July 2025, and at Glasgow Cathedral in September 2025. Publication with Matecznik Press. FULL DETAILS HERE.
*Tickets now available for Culross performances (July)*: book via Eventbrite
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WORKSHOPS 2025
Off the Rails Writing Group in Fife is back for 2025, with Block TWO starting 16th April (technically *full*, enquiries welcome). Details here. AND... a very special collaboration with Amanda Yates Garcia (Oracle of LA): Sonnets for the Muse, in Edinburgh on Sat 26th July - full details here.
SCOTTISH POETRY BOOK OF THE YEAR - LONGLIST
LONG FIELD LOOP, RS's latest collection with Tapsalteerie has been longlisted for the Saltire Society's Poetry Book of the Year Award. ​​​
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NEW COLLECTION: LONG FIELD LOOP
RS's new full-length poetry collection Long Field Loop is now available from publisher Tapsalteerie.
“an extraordinary, utterly unique collection … an antidote to the Anthropocene” – John Glenday.
"Sharp’s is the warmest kind of magic. Long Field Loop is more than a book, it’s an invitation to a party." – Amanda Yates Garcia. Written while Artist-in-Residence with the Centre for Energy Ethics (University of St Andrews), supported by Creative Scotland and the CEE. Longlisted for Scottish Poetry Book of the Year.
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AUTHOR INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL FUND​
RS was granted funding from Publishing Scotland / Scottish Books International's Author International Travel Fund, to support her appearance at the Between.Pomiędzy festival in Gdańsk, Poland in June 2024, reading from her new collection Long Field Loop (Tapsalteerie). ​
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PEATLAND POEM
RS's poem 'Peatland' is featured on the newly launched 'Peatland Restoration: A Guide for Crofting Communities', taken from her new collection Long Field Loop (Tapsalteerie, May 2024). ​
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ANTHOLOGY: HOW DO WE TALK ABOUT KNIVES
The anthology that RS co-edited with Marcas Mac an Tuairneir and Samina Chaudhry - How Do We Talk About Knives: contemporary writers in Scotland on names, language and identity (Matecznik Press) - launched at the National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh in November 2023. The book is available here.
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POETRY FILM SHORTLISTED
Velella velella was shortlisted for the Scottish Arts Trust's Scottish Landscape Awards, shown as part of the exhibition at City Art Centre, Edinburgh from Nov 2023 - March 2024. The film is made by Steve Smart, with original score by Alex South, from RS's poem of the same name. ​
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ROAD & RAIL​
Available through Souterrain Press (RS's micro press for niche and limited edition releases) - a 1-act micro play, with illustrations by Scottish artist John Johnstone. “Rebecca Sharp’s miniature elegy channels the melancholy spirit of Ivor Cutler to navigate its way through the ups and downs of family matters, and the hand-me-down rituals that mark them. A funny, tender and ultimately triumphal rollercoaster of everyday purging, Road & Rail is anything but pedestrian.” – Neil Cooper, Writer and Critic, Edinburgh, May 2022
HELIOS INTERVIEW
Read RS's interview with Imre Szeman and Caleb Wellum for the Energy Humanities' series Helios (#3), discussing all things Rough Currency.
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POEM RECORDING
Enjoy this short reading with imagery, of RS's prose poem The Residents of Airth, from Rough Currency.
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ROUGH CURRENCY
Rough Currency, RS's poetry pamphlet collection with Tapsalteerie is available here. "...an achingly beautiful, far-sighted sequence... Visionary. Oracular. Fearless. Compelling."- John Glenday