future readings
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Come and hear me read as part of Queer Breakfast Club – Grangemouth‘s first ever pride celebration, Proud Corners! The event is free but you are welcome to give a donation on the day. QBC is a fantastic local group that, despite only having started in January, is up for two awards: organisation of the
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It’s Pride month! Though this is obviously not my first Pride since coming out, it’s the first one I’ve marked in any way on the site. What better way to celebrate Pride than with poetry? Here are a few places you’ll find me over the next several weeks. First up, I’ll be reading a short
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It’s just over a week to Linlithgow Book Festival 2009. The festival has managed to attract another great line-up on the usual funding shoestring, so please support it. I’ll be running a workshop on the Saturday morning, compering the open mic event on the Sunday evening and reading along with Jane McKie, Alistair Findlay, Douglas
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I’m particularly pleased that my next reading will be in the city of my birth and of my father’s family, Aberdeen. Come and join me and Rob A Mackenzie at Dead Good Poets in Books and Beans on Belmont Street on Thursday next week (29 October). Times and entry details are here. I lived in
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Oscar’s in the air this weather: from Katy Evans-Bush’s poems about him and Henry James, through her post the other day about his poetry criticism* and, of course, the new film of The Picture of Dorian Gray to the theme Merchant City Festival writers conference, taken from an essay of his, “The Decay of Lying”.
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On Friday 25th, I’ll be back at Blackwell’s to read at the launch of The Golden Hour Book ii, an anthology of poetry, prose and music (it comes with a CD) by writers and musicians who have appeared at the eponymous literary cabaret, held in The Forest Cafe. It should be a good evening. The
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Family circumstances mean I’m almost absent from Edinburgh this festival season, but I’ll be reading at Blackwell’s Writers at the Fringe on Thurs 20th. Rob A Mackenzie is reading there tomorrow night. There are, of course, numerous literary events going on in Edinburgh this month. I hope that I might manage to hear one of
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Less than a week now till Rob A Mackenzie and I hit Stoke Newington! I’m hugely excited about this opportunity for us to read with Katy Evans-Bush and Yang Lian. Katy read a great set at the Jekyll and Hyde a week past Sunday. I first came across Yang Lian when I did some Chinese
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I’ll be busy on Saturday: besides the Word Power reading (see the post below), I’ll be popping up along with Rob A Mackenzie at the thePROJECT2. Twice, in fact: 2 pm at the Lot and 7:30 pm at the Pleasance Cabaret Bar. Booking information here. It’s a varied and interesting programme. thePROJECT is an exploration
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Come to Word Power, 43-45 West Nicolson Street, Edinburgh this Saturday for a feast of fine verse. The reading starts at 12 noon sharp, finishes at 1pm. And it’s free! We’ll all have books for sale. Matt Merritt lives near Leicester. His first collection, Troy Town, was published in March 2008 by Arrowhead Press and
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April, may be the cruelest month, but June is shaping up to be the busiest. This Sunday coming (14th), I’ll be doing not one but two readings. First of all, you can join me and a variety of other Linlithgow-based authors in the marquee at the Rugby Club for “Take Tea With an Author”, a
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On Friday this week, I’ll be through in Glasgow to read at Tchai Ovna, Otago Lane. The reading starts at 8 pm. Also appearing are poets Colin Donati and Jim Carruth, crime fiction writer Alex Gray and writer/poet Stewart Ennis.
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Another review! It seems to be my collection’s weekend for reviews, especially ones with a HappenStance connection: Matt Merritt has just posted a wonderfully thoughtful, warm and generous appreciation of The Ambulance Box (the first link above). I’m indebted to him. Matt and I will be reading with Rob A Mackenzie and James W Wood
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Next week, I’ll be returning to the Golden Hour with The Ambulance Box. I can’t help but be flattered by what Ryan Van Winkle has put on the poster: Click on the pic to see the details. It looks like a really good night. Hope to see some of you there. The next gig after
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If you’ve dropped by the Poetry at the Great Grog blog recently, you’ll have seen that Julia Rampen and I have swapped slots, which means I’ll now be reading on 14 June instead of in May. I’m thoroughly looking forward to reading with fellow Salt poet and literary blogger extraordinaire, Katy Evans-Bush, author of that
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