past readings
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A quick update: Jennifer Williams will now be reading with me at the Linlithgow Folk Festival gig. I’m also trying to organise some music for it, but that’s not confirmed as yet.
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Readers of this blog and Rob Mackenzie’s might remember the reading that we did last year in Linlithgow as part of the Celebrate Linlithgow! arts festival. This year, I’m reading as part of the town’s longest running festival: the Linlithgow Folk Festival. At the moment, it looks like I have the bill to myself, despite
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I’m planning to take part in the Scottish Poetry Library’s courtyard readings tomorrow, Monday and probably Tuesday. Like all open sessions, they can be extremely hit and miss but they’re good fun and an interesting opportunity to read to an often entirely new audience. It’ll be a good opportunity to plug Postscript as well.
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It looks like my dulcet tones will be gracing the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for the first time ever* this year: I have a 10-minute reading slot in the Postscript show at Diverse Attractions on Monday 20th August and Wednesday 22nd August. The show starts at 7.15pm and lasts roughly an hour and a half, but
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Here’s the Shore Poets programme from September 2007 to June 2008 (guest poets in bold, Shore poets in italics and new poets in plain text). Don’t forget our special Orkney event on Sunday 29th July. 200730th SeptPolly Clark, Ian McDonough and Gilly Garnett 28th OctGillian Allnutt, Christine De Luca and James W Wood 25th NovDavid
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As veteran readers of this blog will know, contrary to The Sunday Herald‘s belief, Linlithgow already has a book festival. Last year’s inaugural festival was a one-day affair, but the two-year-old LBF has done with doukin its taes in the watter and is splashing into a whole weekend of bookish blether from Friday 2 November
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The next reading I have in the diary at the moment isn’t until October, but it’s one I’m particularly looking forward to. Pam Beasant, the first George Mackay Brown writing fellow, contacted Shore Poets convener, Christine De Luca early this year enquiring whether we would be interested in an exchange with some Orkney poets. We
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Richard Dawson, musician of the month, provided a fine complement to the poetry, as on his previous Shore Poets appearances. In fact, to Richard goes the best rhyme of the evening: gregarious:areas. If I remember rightly, the lines were: “my pocketbook guide says they [bullfinches] are naturally gregarious; and found in cemeteries and heavily wooded
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Just got word that Kate Clanchy has had to cancel for Sunday due to bronchitis. Fortunately, we have managed to secure a last-minute replacement: Alastair Finlay, writer of Sex, Death and Football* and, more recently, The Love Songs of John Knox, both from Luath. The rest of the line-up and other arrangements remain as advertised.
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Due to family circumstances, I’ve had to pull out of the 100 Poets Gathering at StAnza and won’t be able to make it to the festival at all. This means that my next scheduled reading is at the Shore Poets event in May, when I’ll be appearing alongside Kate Clanchy and my fellow HappenStancer, Rob
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As I mentioned in my post on LUPAS one matter touched on in the Q&A at last Wednesday’s reading was the poetry-science divide. The divide in reactions to Gerrie Fellow’s new work was fascinating in that respect. Norman Kreitman, a PAS stalwart, complimented her on tackling the spiritual impact of technology. “Very few poets have
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Wednesday night’s reading went well. I irritated myself by stumbling uncharacteristically over a couple of lines at the beginning, but I settled into the groove fairly soon. Both Gerrie Fellows and I had 40 minutes (two 20-minute sets), which is double the length of time I’ve ever had before! I had plenty work to fill
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Just over a week until my reading with Gerrie Fellows for the Poetry Association of Scotland! Having been a member of the Association for a good few years, I know I can expect not only a warm welcome but an acute audience. It’s the best combination a writer can have. Here are the details: Wednesday
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The Spring programme for the Poetry Association of Scotland came through the door this morning. The blurb for my reading with Gerrie Fellows on 7 February proclaims us: “Two poets who describe the modern world with an ironic yet lyrical voice.” Other events in the season include a reading by Robert Crawford, Douglas Dunn lecturing
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Wednesday 7th February 2007, 7.30pm, Scottish Poetry Library with Gerrie Fellows for the Poetry Association of Scotland. Entry: £3 (£2 concessions) I’m very excited about this. I’ve been attending PAS readings since I was a student and have seen numerous fine poets read for the Association, so it’s a privilege to be booked by them.
Amy Jo Philip 