06 | 16 poems
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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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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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I’ve just been putting together a tasty wee poetry reading for 16 August. It will be at at the Fruitmarket Gallery Edinburgh and will feature Rob A Mackenzie, Isobel Dixon, Simon Barraclough, Helen Ivory, Helen Mort and myself. I’m really excited to be reading alongside such cracking poets in such a wonderful venue at the
Amy Jo Philip 