Glasgow Film Festival will be screening a film portrait of poet, author and University of Edinburgh Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing, Robert Alan Jamieson, on Saturday 22 February 2014 at 3.30pm. Image Using his collection of poems, ‘Nort Atlantik Drift’ the film follows Alan on a return trip home to Sandness, Shetland to consider the end of the era that inspired many of these poems. The poetry that provides the film’s inspiration was described by Jamieson as originally intended ‘for my three sons, a record of who their father might be and who he once thought he might be. But as with life, the narrative developed in ways I didn’t forsee.’ The film itself mirrored that sentiment when, less than a week before filming commenced, his father died at the age of eighty-four, developing the film’s narrative in ways Jamieson could not have forseen. Robert Alan Jamieson will attend the screening to perform one of his works and participate in a Q & A chaired by Mary Blance of Shetland ForWirds. Tickets for the film are £5.00 and can be purchased online at the Glasgow Film Festival website: Purchase tickets for A Portrait of Robert Alan Jamieson The film was produced through the support of the University of Edinburgh’s Knowledge Exchange Fund, the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures’ Impact Support Fund and through inclusion within an Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded project by Professor Penny Fielding of our Department of English and Scottish Literature to explore the writing of Orkney and Shetland and to make connections between the history of literature in the islands from the early nineteenth century and creative writers working today. For more information on this project, Writing the North, visit their website: www.writingthenorth.com This article was published on 2024-08-13
