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Website of poet Elizabeth Rimmer

Elizabeth Rimmer sitting next to her poem Blanket Bog on displace at Benmore Botanic Garden
Elizabeth Rimmer sitting next to her poem Blanket Bog on displace at Benmore Botanic Garden

Elizabeth Rimmer is a poet, editor and occasional translator who is widely published in magazines and online.  She is influenced by her experience of growing and using herbs, producing a modern translation of the Old English Charm of Nine Herbs in 2017, and a pamphlet with Roncadora Press called Charms for the Healing of Grief in 2023.

Elizabeth Rimmer has published four collections of poetry with Red Squirrel Press, Wherever We Live Now, (2011), The Territory of Rain, (2015), and Haggards (2018), and The Well of the Moon (2021). She has edited nineteen full poetry collections and eight pamphlets for Red Squirrel Press, and anthologies for the Federation of Writers (Scotland) and the Scottish Writers Centre. She is a member of the Scottish Centre for Geopoetics, and runs the ecopoetry discussion website Ceasing Never.


Latest Blog Posts


  • A Few Updates

    I have a new computer, which is very lovely in many ways, but I am struggling to find the photos I uploaded yesterday, so until I learn the file management system on this beast, there will have to be old photos. This is one of my library, which was set up last year. Although it…

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  • Last Chance to Buy

    My first two collections, Wherever We Live Now and The Territory of Rain have been out of print for some time, and I have very few copies left of them. So for a short time they will be on sale from my website at £5 each, p+p free. When I move to my new website,…

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  • Between the Human Places

    We have been watching Kaos on Netflix, and I am very much enjoying the portrayal of Orpheus as a narcissistic dysfunctional pop idol draining Eurydice emotionally in the service of his art. Many years ago – about twenty, I think, which shocks me now I think about it – I wrote a poem sequence called…

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  • Halfway Through August already?

    Yes, it is. The festivals are on in Edinburgh, the grandchildren are back to school (oldest for the last time, good grief!)There are apples ripening on the tree and my social media is full of posts about blackberries and fungi. Swifts are gone, the first wasps and house spiders are beginning to show themselves, and…

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Upcoming Events


  • Reading in Stonehaven

    I will be at the Wee Gaitherin Festival in Stonehaven, which describes itself thus: Three days of readings will take place from Thursday-Saturday August 1-3 in the main function hall at Number 44 Hotel, Allardice Street, in the Market Square. The events will feature poets ranging from the renowned to the unknown, and from twenty-somethings…

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  • Balloch Open Mic

    I am very excited to announce this upcoming event: Balloch Open Mic—Elizabeth Rimmer as headliner I’ll be reading some old poems but also some of the newer Mercury poems. 06 May 2024. The Balloch HouseBalloch Road, Balloch, G83 8LQ start at 7pm promptly. The event will also feature Stanzalone Poetry from Auchterarder. Stanzalone Poetry is…

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  • New Platform for Newsletter

    I have moved to the Buttondown platform for my newsletter to avoid the abuse of AI, so I would like to ask all subscribers to sign up again. I am planning to make the newsletters more regular, but no more than once every six weeks or so, and to be the chief place for new…

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