Galloway Scots Scriever

Scotland Outdoors

BBC

Nature, Society & Culture, Science

4.7 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Rachel Stewart meets Susi Briggs, the newly appointed Scots Scriever. The National Library of Scotland revealed that Susi would be the Galloway Scots Scriever in November 2023. Susi is a poet, author, storyteller, musician and podcaster with a passion for the Scots language. In her new role, she will be tasked with creating original written work in Scots. Rachel visited her in Gatehouse of Fleet to find out how her local landscape and love of nature has inspired her creative work over the years. One of her commissions included a poetic response to the work of Nan Shepherd. Susi hopes to raise the profile of Dumfries and Galloway Scots in her new role.

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0:35.6	This Scotland Outdoors podcast from BBC Radio Scotland.
0:43.7	Hello and thanks for choosing to listen to this.
0:48.8	I'm Rachel Stewart.
0:50.6	In this podcast, I speak to author, storyteller and musician Susie Briggs.
0:56.4	She recently became the Galloway Scots Screever, and over the next year, she'll be tasked with creating exciting and original writing in Scots.
1:06.5	As you'll hear, Susie is passionate about nature and the outdoors in Dumfries and Galloway.
1:12.6	And she told me a bit about her life as we walked down some of the places which have inspired her.
1:22.6	Well, I grew up in Dumfries in the town in a council estate and two different
1:28.4	council estates, lockside and including and it was a wee bit rough and there was
1:32.3	I was building sites to play on and that but when the frost came it seemed to
1:38.1	change the landscape of the place it became enchanting and magical and a mind gone for walks with my
1:49.4	father at night time when it was so sparkling like that and it inspired me to write nip-nips which
1:59.7	was published in 2017 and nip-nips, which was published in 2017.
2:01.6	A nip-names was illustrated by Ruthie Redden.
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