Gael Turnbull (1928-2004)

at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, 2001

texts

from A Rattle of Scree (Akros)

publications

Many collections and pamphlets over the past fifty years, both here and abroad, most recently MIGHT A SHAPE OF WORDS (and other items) from Mariscat Press.

There Are Words: Collected Poems (Shearsman Books, 2006)

biographical note

Born in Edinburgh 1928. Spent much of his life in England, Canada, the United States, and Edinburgh.
Was increasingly interested in constructing what he called 'kinetic poems', usually visual devices, with elements of change, movement, possibility. Dynamic as opposed to static. In the installation below it is the viewer/reader who must move, starting and stopping as they may chance to do. Died July 2, 2004.

site-specific work at Kibble Palace, Botanic Gardens Glasgow

last updated November 8, 2006

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