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I seem to be getting a good bit of practice at interviews, though not of the job kind. Yesterday, I welcomed Jules Lacave-Fontourcy and Mitchell Morton to my house to interview me and record a couple of poems as part of their work on a documentary about Camp Trans Scotland 2024. It was definitely happy
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Isn’t technology astounding? Wednesday night’s inaugural Transatlantic Poetry on Air reading was a wonderful combination of the hi-tech and the intimate. It felt as if I was reading to Michelle Bitting and Robert Peake alone, and yet I was reading to people from both sides of the Atlantic and possibly even from all over the
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Poet and fiction writer Emma Lee tagged me in this internet meme. I’m answering about The North End of the Possible, as it is certainly the next big thing in my writing life! Where did the idea come from for the book? As I think is common with many poetry collections, the idea grew out
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This post is just a quickie to say that I’ll be appearing at the Callander Poetry Weekend (7 to 8 September) this year as part of the Split Screen and filmpoem events on the Saturday afternoon. The weekend is free, and there is a lot going on. The full programme can be found here. Despite
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On Saturday, the fine London-based Donut Press celebrated its 10th birthday with a quintuple book launch — Matthew Caley, Jude Cowan, AB Jackson, Wayne Holloway-Smith and Ahren Warner all launched their new pamphlets. I’m particularly looking forward to ABJ’s Apocrypha. I’ve heard him read from the sequence before and will be at the Glasgow launch
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January 25th is nearly upon us once more, and the world resounds to the tones of Burns’s poems. The Scottish Poetry Library and Let’s Get Lyrical have come up with a typically fun and inventive way of celebrating our most celebrated of Scots poets: a flashmob outside St Giles cathedral tomorrow at 1 pm. Instructions
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The full programme for this year’s StAnza is now available – has been for a few weeks, in fact – and it looks really interesting. It’s not packed with really big names and looks all the more stimulating for that. I’m particularly pleased to see a strong showing of translated poets – and not all
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It’s been a day of Impossible Journeys*. I’m sitting here basking in some of Paul Thomson‘s music to accompany Claire Askew‘s poem for the project, and I’ve also been absolutely loving Alastair Cook‘s film for my poem. All of which simply stokes my already considerable excitement about the fact it’s all going to come together
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Having just worked out how to embed content from Vimeo, I thought I’d post properly Alastair Cook‘s beautiful video for Jane McKie’s “La Plage“:
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I mentioned this collection in the previous post. Here‘s* a video from the project by Alastair Cook for Jane McKie‘s poem “La Plage”. (Lovely poem. I particularly like “They will rubbish quieter worship”.) *Can’t get it to embed, unfortunately.
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I’ll be reading a 20-minute set at the this collection showcase in the University of Edinburgh’s McEwan Hall on Friday 26th. The event is free and runs from 7 pm to 9 pm. McEwan hall is a rather grand place to be reading. I danced in there at many a ceilidh as a student and
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I’ve just watched one of the most quietly beautiful films I’ve seen: “Basil Bunting”, Peter Bell’s 1982 film portrait of the Northumbrian modernist master, which comes bundled along with the new Bloodaxe edition of Briggflatts. The tone reminded me in some ways of “Into Great Silence” for the way it concentrates the mind on the
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