past readings
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I headed to Dumfries yesterday for the second of my two New Voice events with the Scottish Poetry Library. Lilias Fraser from the Library and I took the train to Lockerbie–a very civilised Virgin conveyance–where we were picked by Andrew Forster, who took us to the venue at Crichton Campus via a pretty decent coffee
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Thursday’s New Voice session went very well. For the first half of the evening, Helena Nelson gave a short workshop on how to raise your profile as a poet. In the second half, she interviewed me as a live case study. Poems were interspersed with the interview in roughly chronological order. Out of the 17
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I spent a chunk of today preparing for the New Voices event in Glasgow on Thursday. It’s shaping up to be an interesting event from both sides of the podium, I think. I see from the Scottish Poetry Library’s events pages that it’s fully booked! Not that I can remember quite how many people that
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Friday’s reading went really well. It was held in the lounge of Bryerton House, aka St John’s Christian Centre, in Linlithgow High Street. The lounge set-up lent a cosy, intimate atmosphere to the evening, but it was bittie cramped for some of the 20 or so folk who came! Guitarist Phil Melstrom kicked us off
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My next reading is the Celebrate Linlithgow! one on Friday this week (27 October). There has been a slight change to the programme, as the line-up will now consist of me, Douglas Briton and my fellow HappenStance* poet Rob A Mackenzie, all bookended by jazz from Phil Melstrom. The event kicks off at 8pm in
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The New Voices event in Dumfries I’m appearing at is not at Lochthorn Library, but the University of Glasgow Crichton Campus, which is to the south of Dumfries. Details are therefore as follows: New VoicesAndrew Philipwith Helena Nelson of Happenstance Press How do you set about building your profile as a new poet – getting
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One of the most exciting things to have happened to me on the writing front this year was my being asked to do a couple of events with the Scottish Poetry Library under its New Voices banner. Details of both are below. New Voices promotes poets who have published one collection so far. Usually, a
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My next reading will be at the Poetry and Jazz event on the Celebrate Linlithgow! arts festival. The reading is at 8pm on Friday 27 October in Bryerton House. Tickets are free and can be reserved by calling 01506 517031. The other main reader is Douglas Briton, who writes in a kind of Wendy Cope-ish
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Monday 22nd May, at The Village, 8 – 11pm, £3: Foakies present: TRAVELLING WAVERLIES. The Waverlies line-up will feature Bob Shields, Mike Dillon, Tom Fairnie, Mark Barnett, Nancy Somerville and Jane Fairnie. Shore Poet ANDREW PHILIP Dutch singer songwriter BERNARD BROGUE, a superb songwriter and guitarist who will play an extended spot on what will
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Heavens, Edinburgh is home to more festivals that you can shake a wad of tickets at! This one was brought to my attention by fellow Shore poet Nancy Somerville. I might be reading on the Monday night in the–ahem–Foakie Doakies event, but that’s still to be confirmed. That’s this Monday coming, by the way.
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When I walked through the door at the Lot at about 11:30pm on Saturday, the stage was thrang with singers including The Linties and members of The Bothy Tams. Their set was drawing to a close when I arrived, but I was in time to hear the strong sound of The Linties close it beautifully.
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There’s a bit more detail coming through about the Shore Poets at the Ceilidh Culture Festival Club. Looks like I’ll be doing a set around midnight this Saturday (15th April).
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Some of the Shore Poets, including me, might be reading at the festival club for this year’s Ceilidh Culture Festival. Watch this space and the newly added “Readings” links for confirmation and details.
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For an overview of StAnza 2006, I can’t better Susan Mansfield’s piece mentioned below, not least because I got there only on the Saturday afternoon and left again on the Sunday before Andrew Motion’s reading. But I always enjoy StAnza, whatever number of events I manage to attend. And I enjoy it as much for
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I’ll write something more about StAnza when I’ve time and energy, but suffice to say for the moment that Susan Mansfield’s write-up of the festival in today’s Scotsman mentions my fellow Shore Poet Angela McSeveney and me: StAnza 2006 was another success, full of poetic richness. Some spellbinding performances, notably from [Andrew] Motion, Tony Curtis
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