I’m delighted to tell you that my latest pamphlet of poems, End of the Glacier, has just emerged. These poems respond to the glacier paintings of Wilhelmina Barns-Graham and the pamphlet has been produced by the WBG Trust. Please get in contact if you would like a copy. […]
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Impact: Listening to Bodies on Earth
I am currently crowdfunding to buy myself some time to write my next book about rocks and stones. If you can help, please visit the link. Many thanks in advance: https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/AlysonHallett?utm_term=KQwd67vQZ […]
Wells – Monday 4th September
I’ll be reading poems at the Kings Head in Wells – from 7 onwards. I’ll be focusing on my work with rocks and stones. […]
A summer of writing
I’ve just been teaching at Moniack Mhor with the novelist Sarah Moss. We ran a course titled In Place of Writing and got to work with some amazing poets and novelists. I taught in Abriachan Forest, which is community owned, and we all stretched our imaginations under a cloudless June sky. I’m back in Somerset […]
An evening of poetry, science and song
at the Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinbugh, 16/11/22 – 6.30 – 7.30. I’ll be joined by soprano Mhairi Lawson and geologist Pat Corbett. https://www.fruitmarket.co.uk/event/mountains-and-love/ […]
Impact: A Poetry Exhibition
My exhibition of poetry and stones from my six month Fellowship in the Earth Sciences department is open until March 2023 in the EarthArt Gallery, Wills Memorial Building, University of Bristol. It is open to the public on Wednesday afternoons from 2 – 5. All welcome. […]
30 September: Exhibition, poetry reading and panel discussion
Following a 6 month Fellowship in the Earth Sciences Department of the University of Bristol, I am having an opening event on the 30th September. Doors open at 6 pm. I have been working with scientists around the idea of Impact in relation to meteorites and volcanoes. All welcome. Eventbrite link for free tickets here: […]
News 2022
I am working in the Earth Sciences department of the University of Bristol as their current EarthArt Fellow. This involves collaborating with Professor Alison Rust and looking at ideas of impact and the Ries Nordlingen meteor crater in Germany. My latest publication is Covid/Corvid (Broken Sleep Books) – sonnets that were co-authored with poet Penelope […]
I’ll be doing an online launch for Stone Talks on the 23rd September along with Mat Osmond and Steve Braund.
Also, watch out for exciting news of a new, co-authored pamphlet coming out in the Autumn….. […]
Tilted Ground Book Launch
On Thursday 20th May, I’ll be launching Tilted Ground. During the residency at the Lyell Centre I was in contact with geologists, the well being centre and also researching the heritage of Heriot Watt University. The book is a limited edition publication and I’m delighted to be able to invite you to the launch on […]