Wee Gaitherin at the Grassic Gibbon Centre - Lesley Benzie

Next up for our celebration on 15th August is Wee Gaitherin Trustee and fine poet, Lesley Benzie.

(Get your FREE tickets here: Lewis Grassic Gibbon 125 Year Celebration Tickets, Saturday, August 15  •  7 PM - 9:30 PM | Eventbrite)

At the event, Lesley will be performing her poem 'Sunset Song and the Terminators' , her prize-winning poem inspired by Grassic Gibbon's best-known novel. Here's Lesley giving us flavour of her style with 'Woodstock tae Aiberdeen'.

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Lesley Benzie is Aberdonian, and lives in Glasgow. She won Wigtown’s Scots Poetry

Prize in 2024. Previously she received Runner-up in McCash Scots Poetry Competitions

and nomination for writer of the year in the Scots Language Awards. Writing in both Scots and English, her work appears in numerous magazines/anthologies, and she has two poetry collections Fessen/Reared (Seahorse Publications) and Sewn Up. Her hot off the press third collection, Luve’s Rhyme, Reason, Revolution, will be launched at The Wee Gaitherin Poetry Festival on 5 th September 2026. Touring widely with the collective ‘Wanderlust Women’, she has collaborated in three collections: Three Poets 2021, Extra Baggage 2023, She’s Some Woman 2025 (Seahorse Publications). She’s also one of three poets in Doric collection, Norlan Lichts 2022 (Rymour Books), nominated for Scots Language Awards ‘book of the year’.