The Evergreen revisits a 400-year old tradition that sparked the Evergreen anthologies of Allan Ramsay and Patrick Geddes, inspiring a civic and cultural revival within Edinburgh and beyond.
Over a 5-year period from 2014 to 2019, a total of 85 writers and artists contributed to the four volumes of The Evergreen, A New Season in the North:
Leila Aboulela; Youssef Al-Khatib; Sean Bradley; Peter Burnett; Donald Campbell; Dominic Cooper; Ken Crump; Monica Datta; Robert Davies; Lou Dear; Christine De Luca; Elizabeth Darling; Janet Dick; Kate Downie; Elizabeth Elliott; Lucy Ellmann (nominated for the Booker Prize); Alison Flett; Helena Fornells; Paul Furneaux; Patrick Geddes; Eddie Gibbons; Jim Gilchrist; Robin Gillanders; Alan Gillis; Kylie Grant; Joyce Guthrie; Ellen Hair; Alan Harding; Anjum Hasan; David Herd; Judith Hertog; Diana Hope; Mary Hong; Tom Hubbard; Tim Ingold; A Jak; Astrid Jaekel; Stuart Kelly; James Kelman; Peter Kravitz; Kristen Lowman; Lesley Mcara; Richie Mccaffrey; Ian McDonough; Andrew Mcdougall; Todd Mcewen; John McGlade; Brian Mclaughlin; Marcas Mac An Tuairneir; Catherine Marshall; Lila Matsumoto; Ali Millar; Benjamin Morris; Robert Morris; Kenny Munro; Owen O’Neill; Chiara Organtini; Mary Quinn; Lee Randall; John Reiach; Petra Reid; Mario Relich; Jennie Renton; James Robertson; Richard Rodger; Derek Rodger; Michael Romer; Suzy Romer; Lucy Roscoe; Effie Samara; Mike Saunders; Marianna Silvano; Morelle Smith; Nancy Somerville; Jock Stein; Alice Tarbuck; Rafaela Taylor; David Tomassini; Maria Vlachou; Samantha Walton; Phoebe Weller; David Wheatley; Nik Williams; Kirsti Wishart; Shelagh Wright; Neil Young
Themes
The Word Bank’s Evergreen utilises Geddes’s triad Folk, Work, Place – which he claimed must be in balance to make a ‘good place’- as the themes of the first three volumes. The final volume breaks with this tradition by featuring only female contributors:
PLACE: looking, appreciating the distinctive locality – published Autumn 2014
WORK: how place directs the local economy – published Autumn 2015
FOLK: local folk, local community, local culture – published Summer 2017
FUTURES: rethinking community, an all-female edition – published Autumn 2019
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