past readings
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Details for the St Andrew’s reading are just in: Venue: The North Hall, All Saints Rectory, North Street, St Andrews, Fife KY16 9AQDate: Monday 20th OctoberTime: 7:30 pm – 8:45 pm, Refreshments served at 7:30pm.Entrance: Inklight members £2, non members £3. I’ll be reading from the manuscript for The Ambulance Box. Not the first time
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Busy busy busy at the moment here. It’s good busy, though. I’ve proofed my proofs, sent ’em back and had author photos taken for the book (of which more in due course); I’m gearing up for Linlithgow Book Festival and this month’s various readings; and I’m working on a Scots language writing project in the
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October is shaping up to be a busy month. Not only is there the HappenStance reading at St Mungos Mirrorball in Glasgow on Thursday the 2nd, but I’ll be reading for InkLight, a student creative writing society at St Andrews University on Monday the 20th. The venue for the latter isn’t confirmed yet, so more
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Here is the full information for my reading tomorrow at the Four Hour Festival: Venue: Evolution Cafe, Evolution House. This is the entrance to eca on the West Port. It’s a big glass building right on the corner of the crossroads, apparently. Time: I’m on at 3pm. The event starts at 1pm with Shore Poet
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My time for the “Four Hour Festival” event has been confirmed: I’m on at 15:00 and it’s a 10-minute set. Plenty time to get myself organised for that. The event is open to prose as well as poetry and I’ve no idea what the balance between the two will be, but it should be fun.
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I have a slot on the West Port Book Festival‘s “Four Hour Festival” event. No time confirmed as yet, but I’ll post when it is. You can find the full programme here.
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Sleepers. A fine idea if you can book a berth but a complete misnomer if cash and demand force you into a recliner (read “seat that hardly moves back”) for the eight-hour journey. And my seat on the way down to London was the worst possible option: right next to the door to the toilet
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Less than a week to go to the Troubadour reading, and there’s already another HappenStance date in the diary: several HappenStance poets–including myself, Patricia Ace, James Wood, Eleanor Livingstone and Margaret Christie–will be reading at St Mungo’s Mirrorball on Thursday 2nd October. Full line-up and more details nearer the time but, for the moment, those
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Well, it was a trimmed-back audience last night at the Shore Poets. I don’t know whether it was the Grangemouth strike that kept people away, but it can’t have been the weather unless everyone had fallen asleep in the sun. Whatever, we were maybe around 20 down on the usual number, but it was a
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How readings can creep up on you! It’s only a few days until this month’s Shore Poets, where I’ll be reading alongside Colin Will and Julie Sheridan, with music provided by blues/folk/fingerpicking guitarist Callum More. I’m stepping down from the group after June, so this will be my last appearance as a Shore poet. It
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Over the weeks runing up to the HappenStance reading at the Troubadour, I’ll be posting a poem by each of the poets appearing. The full line-up is listed alphabetically by surname below. Poems will appear in a different order and the list will link to the poems as they are posted. Martin CookTom DuddyEleanor LivingstoneGreg
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News just in: there’ll be a HappenStance Press reading at Coffee House Poetry at the Troubadour in London on 26th May. Several HappenStance poets will read, including Rob A Mackenzie, Eleanor Livingstone, Michael Mackmin (editor of The Rialto), Gregory Leadbetter, me and Helena Nelson (Mme HappenStance herself). I’ve been thinking about trying to read in
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Things are coming together for the Orkney trip. Besides the reading with Christine De Luca and local Orkney writers, I’ll be leading a workshop for an S1 class (non-Scots read 12-year-olds) at Kirkwall Grammar School on the Friday morning (an 8.50 start–gulp!). Should be fun, although the last time I was in an S1 class
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The visit to Orkney with the Shore Poets exchange in October is beginning to shape up. It looks like it will involve one reading–on Saturday 13th along with Christine De Luca and local writers in the Pier Arts Centre, Stromness–and at least one school visit the previous day. There might be other visits to schools
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Readers of Rob A Mackenzie’s blog Surroundings might recall a comments thread a while back about the idea of a Nov 4th reading with Roddy Lumsden, AB Jackson, Rob and myself. Well, the gig is confirmed. It should make for a good night, though I expect I’ll be frazzled by the end, what with it
Amy Jo Philip 