Gaelic Poetry
Gaelic Poetry Marcas Turner, Scottish Poetry Library
Marcas Mac an Tuairneir (Mark Spencer Turner) writes poetry, prose, drama and journalism, in Gaelic and English. Marcas is a member of the board of the Scottish Poetry Library.
His début collection, Deò, was published in 2013 by Grace Note Publications. A second, Lus na Tùise, part of Tapsalteerie’s Biggin Briggs series, containing translations to and from Scots and Gaelic, alongside the much acclaimed poet Stuart A. Paterson. He is crruently working on further editions.
In 2014, he was awarded the Highland Literary Salon prize for poetry and both second and first place in the ‘The Baker Prize’ for Gaelic Literature. In 2015, he was a runner up in the national William Blake Poetry Prize, for his poetry in English. In the same year he was the winner of the Scottish Association of Writers’ ‘Write Up North!’ poetry competition. He was runner up in the same Wigtown competition, in 2015 and 2016, and was named outright winner in 2017.
PhD programme. Her focus is education and bilingual teaching. She aspires to work with the education system in Bangladesh and improve the inclusive education in a bilingual setting.