Valerie Gillies

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Scottish Poetry Library Podcast · In Conversation With Valerie Gillies · 22 Jan 2026 podcast

We'll sleep as soon as a peery.

We'll mind o' this when we walk in,

O'er folk where I may digress, burns of the earth and all the universe.

I think my headphones are about to pop off.

We commissioned the Orkney chair maker to make us a box, a wooden box, which would take a loose leaf, some poems and some photographs.

And

let people look through them themselves.

So he made us the most beautiful box, which is held in the Maggie Centre in Edinburgh and stays there.

So I think that has been a total success.

You can go into the Maggie Centre and the box will always have moved into a different room.

Sometimes it's in the kitchen.

Sometimes it's in one of the sitting rooms.

Sometimes it's in a little individual room.

So it is constantly used and it's going to remain there.

And yes, it was just one of those things.

Rebecca said, when I said, why don't we make a box?

And she said, now you're talking.

That's collaboration.

When I might have said, why don't we make a box?

And they, well, that would be difficult.

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