Charlie Gracie Website
November 6, 2015WELCOME TO THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE OF CHARLIE GRACIE
Charlie Gracie is a poet, novelist and short story writer, originally from Baillieston, Glasgow and now living on the edge of the Trossachs.
You can see what Charlie is up to and buy his books.
You’ll also learn where to catch up with him at events and what is floating his boat currently about other people’s writing. Get in touch! 
“Charlie Gracie’s poems are quiet and clear, in love with nature and all of the possibilities of being human and alive. As refreshing as a cool drink of Scottish water on a warm summer’s day.” Alan Bissett
Events & Projects
- Belfast to Baillieston by Charlie Gracie – readingsCharlie will be reading from Belfast to Baillieston on the following dates: Tuesday 17 October 2023: Scottish Writers’ Centre, Glasgow, 19.00 (at the Red Squirrel Press Showcase, chaired by Sheila Wakefield) Thursday 23 November 2023: Baillieston Library, 18.00 (with Airdrie’s finest, Peter A.) Monday 4 December 2023: Balloch Open Mic, 19.00 (chaired by George Gibson) Thursday 7 December 2023: Stirling Central Library, 17.30 (with Moira McPartlin, Chris Powici and Liane McKay)
- Tannery Hoose Windae #10: pop-up bookshelves – books of 2021Pop-up bookshelves in the Tannery Hoose Windae – just about all the books I bought in 2021. What a lot of great reading I’ve had during that terrible year. On the day I took the photo of the pop-up bookshelves, I’d left the three books I was currently reading in the house. So, a special mention for The Poison Glen by Annmarie Ní Churreáin, Luckenbooth by Jenni Fagan and Queen of Infinite Space by Ruth Aylett. All excellent and still on the go. Colmcille/Columba 1500 A load of the books on the pop-up bookshelves relate to a project I undertook with The Song House in County Donegal. The Irish poet, Annemarie Ní Churreáin and I worked with Sineád and Candy from the Song House to develop three poetry workshops around the life and influence of Colmcille, known in Scotland as Columba, whose 1500th anniversary of birth was in 2021. This Irish prince, poet and preacher …
WRITING
- Neil Young on Belfast to BailliestonNeil Young is a Belfast poet and publisher, living for many years in Scotland. His published works include: Lagan Voices (Scryfa, 2011), The Parting Glass (Tapsalteerie, 2016), Jimmy Cagney’s Long-Lost Kid Half-Brother (Black Light Engine Room, 2017), Shrapnel (Poetry Salzburg, 2019) and After the Riot (Nine Pens, Press, 2021). Neil is the founder of The Poets’ Republic magazine and Drunk Muse Press. In his poetry, you enter into a view on a fulsome, often chaotic space: …
- Belfast to Baillieston – published by Red Squirrel PressBelfast to Baillieston is a family and industrial narrative that takes as its core the life of Jimmy Gracie, the grandfather of Charlie Gracie. This series of poems and short stories illuminates the harshness and the joys in the lives of this working-class family in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries on both sides of the North Channel. The lives in this book are unique in that they are Gracie lives, but they are the lives …
- Annemarie Ní Churreáin on Belfast to BailliestonAnnemarie Ní Churreáin is a poet from the Donegal Gaeltacht, Ireland. Her books include Bloodroot (Doire Press, 2017), Town (The Salvage Press 2018) and The Poison Glen (The Gallery Press, 2021). She is a co-librettist of Elsewhere, a new opera by Straymaker (IRL). Ní Churreáin is a recipient of many accolades in Ireland and across the world and her work has been translated into Galician, Italian and Lithuanian. Her work in The Poison Glen is of such deep humanity, …