poetry
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I invite to unlock the door to The Interpreter’s House no. 83. In one corner of this mansion, you will find two short poems of mine, “Of the Wounds” and “The Changes”. I have a particular affection for these two wee pieces. They do something I really needed them to do at the time I
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Two publications in two days! That must be a record for me, though I’m not sure my record keeping is stringent enough to confirm or contradict that. Still, it’s a great way end one month and begin another as, following yesterday’s publication in Bad Lilies, my poem “Everything is running out at once:” is published
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“Knackered, Babes”, a poem in four sections, was published yesterday in issue 20 of the excellent Bad Lilies, edited by Kathryn Gray and Andrew Neilson. This piece is full of allusions and references to, and puns on, 80s and 90s music, hymns, praise songs and liturgy, sci-fi, literture and politics, as well as the natural
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I know, I know – I haven’t said anything about how well the recent(ish) readings went. (Very well indeed, thanks.) I’ve been busy with family, writing and sending out poems (a rejection – the third out of the four submissions I’ve sent this year so far – arrived this afternoon and I’m actively planning more
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If you’re in the Edinburgh area this Friday, get yourself along to the Scottish Storytelling Centre for this showcase with “some of the most talented spoken word artists in the UK”. It’s going to a really fun evening, with a “poetry jukebox” as part of the event as well as short sets from each of
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Just a really quick update on the Marcella Althaus-Reid Spoken Word Theology Competition to say that I came second! The judges — playwright Jo Clifford, musician, theologian and URC minister Alex Clare-Young and poet Jay Hulme — chose Naomi Orrell’s “Antiphon for the Trans Body” as the winner and I have to say it was
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What’s this? Two posts in two days?! You might be forgiven for wondering whether there is good reason for this lack of parsimony, dear readers. And there is. For I was informed on Monday evening that my work has been shortlisted for the inaugural Marcella Althaus-Reid Spoken Word Theology Competition. The competition, an element of
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Today, as readers of Wednesday’s post and anyone who pays exceptionally close attention to the dedication in The Ambulance Box will know, is Aidan’s 10th birthday. Although I posted “The Condition” on Wednesday, I could not let the day itself go by unmarked here, so I give you this abnominal for Aidan, which was first published
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The Condition is identified by ultrasound at 38 weeks — less than an echo where there should have been loud celebration. The condition would have you weep aloud in the streets and will cause some people to dash across the road when you approach but has left no breath to cry with. The condition can
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Hidden Door is back! This time, it’s a nine-day arts extravaganza featuring 40 bands, 70 artists, poetry, cinema, theatre and bars — yes bars plural — in the 24 disused vaults in Edinburgh’s Market St. It starts on Friday this week and runs until Saturday 5 April. I’m excited to be appearing on Day 5,
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In September this year, I was part of a peace and reconcilation pilgrimage to Flodden, which was the Northumbria Community‘s contribution to the commemorations of the 500th anniversary of the battle of Flodden. We peace pilgrims took part in the service of solemn commemoration the day after the anniversary. My contribution to that included the
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A busy but doubtless exhilarating day awaits me tomorrow at Linlithgow Book Festival 2013. In the morning, I’m running a poetry workshop as I have done for the part several years. It’s at the Mel Gray centre at the canal basin from 10.30 to 12.30 and there are still some tickets available. In the afternoon,
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Gracious, I’m almost getting to be an old hand at this online reading lark. I suppose twice counts something like “old hand” in the world of new technology, right? Anyway, it was a great pleasure to read with Isabel Galleymore, Chris McCabe and Paul Stephenson for the first of two special Transatlantic Poetry readings that
Amy Jo Philip 