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
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Hope for Cop 28
There isn’t much of it. But if ever we could get the powerful ones together and make them listen to us, it’s now. So here is a canto from my long eco-protest poem The Wren in the Ash Tree which was published in Haggards in 2018. The Outcry isn’t mine – it’s the ‘outcry of…
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William Bonar Poetry Prize 2023
Once again I will be taking part in the judging for this competition in memory of the dearly loved and much missed Glasgow poet, William Bonar. The prize is really special, so please polish up the poems and let us have them! The William Bonar Poetry Prize 2023(supported by St Mungo’s Mirrorball and Red Squirrel…
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Peace, Peace! They Say but There Is No Peace
This is a quotation from Jeremiah (6:14, if you’re a Bible geek). Jeremiah is just about the only prophet who can do justice to the situation we are in just now – I can only think the fundamentalists among us have a very selctive awareness of Scripture. There’s a lot about oppression of the poor…
Upcoming Events
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A Day for Nature
Saturday 4th November, Stirling University This Saturday 4th November, Paperboats Writers will feature as part of A Day for Nature at Stirling University in the Pathfoot Building. The event will include a panel discussion of Landscapes in Time chaired by conservationist and author Polly Pullar, along with Rebecca Smith, author of Rural, Tom Bowser, author of A Sky Full of Kites, Dr Catherine Mills, Senior lecturer in…
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Red Squirrel Press Autumn Showcase
Red Squirrel Press is holding a showcase to celebrate the launch of no less than nine poetry collections. Scoltish Writers’ Centre. CCA. 7-9pm Tuesday 17 October Red Squirrel Press poets Anne Connolly, Graham Fulton, Charlie Gracie, Andy Jackson, Eleanor Livingstone, Jean Taylor, Judith Taylor, Mary Thomson and Red Squirrel Press friend Lindsay Macgregor. I had…
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Fundraiser Event in Aid of MacDiarmid’s Brownsbank
Biggar-based publisher Red Squirrel Press invites you to an afternoon of Red Squirrel Press poets and friends in aid of MacDiarmid’s Brownsbank. Featuring some of the best-known names in poetry, WN (Bill) Herbert, Dundee Makar and Professor of Poetry, Sean O’Brien, multi award- winning poet and Emeritus Professor, Colin Will, writer, musician, former Scottish Poetry…