Amy Jo Philip
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Here’s a wee round-up of what six Salt authors, including me, are up to in Auld Reekie this August: Salt in the Edinburgh Festivals « blog.saltpublishing.com.
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Helen Mort strikes an arborial note for the fifth poem from the 16 August Fruitmarket readers: Grasmere Oak Since there’s no blind, the tree outside’s a curtain on your room, the yolk-bright mornings breaking through. Last night, its shadow seemed the only thing between you and the leaking dark, the rain set loose and needling
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Well, August is shaping up to be a rather busy month, isn’t it? Will I remain sane? Who knows. Still, it’ll be fun. Especially the somewhat madcap event I’ve cooked up for the Inky Fingers Minifest along with Rob A Mackenzie and Helen Ivory. Entitled “A Knife Fight in a Telephone Box”, it’s a battle
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Mark Burnhope enters the ranks of Salt Publishing this week when his debut pamphlet, The Snowboy, is published in the Salt Modern Voices series. Mark, an exciting young poet, will be popping by Tonguefire in August to talk about the pamphlet, poetry, disability and faith. Meanwhile, to whet your appetite in a slightly unorthodox fashion,
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If you’re looking for some early-morning literature in central Edinburgh this August, The Early Word at Captains Bar would be a fine place to head for. It’s a 9:30 am single-author reading with a question and answer session. Tickets are £5.50 (£4.50 concs), with a cake and a coffee thrown into the price. I’m reading
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I’m rather chuffed today to see the full contents for the forthcoming Salt Publishing anthology The Best British Poetry 2011. It’s quite a roster of many of the best new and emerging poets from the UK, with plenty familiar names and a good number that are new to me. It is particularly pleasing that my sequence
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For our third poem from the 16 August Fruitmarket readers, Helen Ivory takes us to the threshold between this world and the next: My Grandmother and Mrs Crow While she was dying her dead friend stayed with her all night. She wore a frayed hospital gown, and sat in a wheelchair. She was telling her
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I’ve been trying for ages to write something that uses various Scots words and phrases for, or connected with, rain. It only occurred to me recently that vispo/concrete poetry might be a productive approach for this project, which I’m calling “In Wir Element”. This is the first of what I hope will be several pieces
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The Herald‘s annual Scots language poetry competition, the McCash, was launched last week. The full article about this year’s competition, including winning poems from previous years, is here. However, you need to have an account at the paper — which is free — if you want to read the whole article, so here are the
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Rob A Mackenzie gets musical for our second poem from the 16 August Fruitmarket readers: Yo La Tengo Top of the Pops, backing tracks battle with vocal autotune, emerge as helium monotone: DJ Corporate’s Legless Crew remix ‘Bores on 45’ and for the ninety-fifth week running Yo La Tengo are non-movers at number two, above
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Note: this piece plays with the Scots word for/spelling of “roof”.
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Silly me: in yesterday’s post, I forgot to include the all-important details of time and entry charge for the reading on 16 August. So, here we go: Where: Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh. When: Tuesday 16 August, 7:30 pm for 8 pm. How much: £3.00 And let’s not forget the fantastic line-up of poets: Isobel Dixon, Rob
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