Spring: Poetry by John Glenday and Album Launch by Gillian Fleetwood

On the afternoon of Saturday 25th May, Hospitalfield have invited two artists to present their work, taking as a point of inspiration our annual theme of GRAIN. At 2pm, poet John Glenday will present new poetry in the Walled Garden and at 3pm Gillian Fleetwood will launch her new album Together With Yourself at Sea Level in the Artist Studios. Our field of heritage wheat and rye will be sprouting in the lower walled garden where we will begin the afternoon:



New Poetry Reading by John Glenday

FIELDWORKS

2 - 3pm



Carnoustie-based poet John Glenday will return to the metaphor and premise of grain that he originally approached in his 2009 Picador poetry collection. In this reading and discussion, John Glenday will share a selection of his poems related to the imagery of the natural world, and will talk about its significance in his poetry; how it allows him to map the spiritual hinterland of the world we live in, but also to address wider environmental and social concerns. Weather permitting, the reading will be held in the Lower walled garden at Hospitalfield, where words, music and gardens meet.



Gillian Fleetwood album launch:

TOGETHER WITH YOURSELF AT SEA LEVEL

3pm - 4pm.



Gillian Fleetwood returns to Hospitalfield House to launch her new album, Together With Yourself at Sea Level, conceived and developed in the house on their incredible Erard Grecian Harp.



The music is a heartfelt expression of the power of art to develop our resilience and understand our place in nature and time, and Gillian’s own story of working through a complex period of ill-health while writing this suite of music at Hospitalfield House. It’s an optimistic and honest suite of music that has been called “really gorgeous” by Guy Garvey of Elbow (BBC R6 Music) and “a strikingly textured tableau of a debut solo album” in a 4 star review in the Scotsman.



A quartet featuring fiddle, ‘cello, bass, xylophone, vocals and Hospitalfield’s own stunning and rare antique Erard harp will present the music at Hospitalfield on 25th May as part of a Spring afternoon featuring poetry and music, programmed as part of Hospitalfield’s year long theme of GRAIN.