poetry
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Issue 5 of Salt’s flagship online literary magazine, Horizon, has just hit the screens. It’s the first under the editorship of Katy Evans-Bush and it’s packed with poems, fiction, drama, reviews and essays from a really strong line-up of contributors, including Rob A Mackenzie, Ira Lightman, Ian Duhig, Julia Bird … I could go on,…
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There’s a rather lovely wee post about this coming Tuesday’s reading over Ryan’s blog. He’s too kind, especially in rewarding me a Forward nomination I’ve never had! I’m really looking forward to this reading too. I’ve read with Ryan a few times now, but this is the first event we’ve done just the two of…
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I seem to have been nothing but a silo blogger of late, when I’ve been a blogger at all. So much to catch up on, so little time and energy — so much to do! Anyway, it’s all good — or at least any of it that interest you is, dear reader, provided you’re still…
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Today is the centenary of Norman MacCaig‘s birth and, later today, I’ll be reading a new poem partly inspired by MacCaig’s “New Maps and Old” at the Poetry at the GVR MacCaig 100 celebration. MacCaig is an important figure for me. I credit having read him for Higher English with nudging me into writing poetry…
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Here’s the full poetry and fiction line-up for this weekend’s Hidden Door. I think you’ll agree it’s a cracker: SATURDAY 23RD 15.00-15.45 Kona Macphee Ron Butlin David Coates 17.00-17.45 JL Williams Colin Will Kevin Williamson 19.00-19.45 Jane Flett Ericka Duffy Eleanor Rees Andrew Philip SUNDAY 24TH 15.00-15.45 Anita Govan James Picardo Kirsty Logan 17.00-17.45 Jane…
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Hidden Door 2 approaches fast! I’m particularly excited about this one, as I’ve been putting together a fantastic — if I do say so myself — poetry and art project along with Dave Martin and Jane McKie. It’s called Impossible Journeys, it will thread through the venue and it involves 10 poets, including some leading…
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Congratulations are in order for another Salt poet and friend, Tony Williams, whose book The Corner of Arundel Lane and Charles Street has been shortlisted for this year’s Aldeburgh prize! I wish Tony all the best for it. The Corner … is an absolutely cracking collection and would be a deserving winner. (The full shortlist…
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Unfortunately, the 4 October reading in Newcastle has had to be cancelled due to venue problems. However, the reading at the Lit & Phil on 24 November is certainly still on. I’m very much looking forward to reading there. Closer to home, I’ll also be reading alongside Ryan Van Winkle at Morningside Library on 23…
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There’s only one place left on my Poetry School Online course and one more week before it goes live. The first live chat tutorial isn’t until 11 October, but there will be an assignment to complete before then. I’m looking forward to it and can’t wait to find out who’s signed up! If you’re interested,…
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Good news for anyone who would have liked a space on my online Poetry School course on structure and form: apparently, it isn’t sold out. A technical glitch made some of last year’s students from another course appear to be enrolled, so there are still around eight spaces left. If you’re interested, simply go to…
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The Poetry School has a fine new website and a new programme for the new season. I’m joining the school’s roster of tutors. It’s quite an honour and somewhat daunting, as it includes a good number of the finest, most distinctive poets writing in the UK, among them several of my fellow Salt authors. I’m…
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Eleanor Rees was born in Birkenhead, Merseyside in 1978. Her pamphlet collection Feeding Fire received an Eric Gregory Award in 2002 and her first full length collection Andraste’s Hair (Salt, 2007) was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and the Glen Dimplex New Writers Awards. Salt published her second collection, Eliza and…
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Rob A Mackenzie was born in Glasgow. He studied law and then abandoned the possibility of significant personal wealth by switching to theology. He spent a year in Seoul, eight years in Lanarkshire, five years in Turin, and now lives in Edinburgh where he organises the Poetry at the GRV reading series. His excellent first…
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It’s a busy one, week after next: not only will I be reading at the Salt gig on the Free Fringe, but I’ll be back at the Banshee Labyrinth on the Wednesday afternoon (2.50 pm to be precise) to read with Claire Askew, Sophie Cooke, Gavin Inglis, Jane McKie and Andrew Wilson as part of the…
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Those of you wondering what else MacAdam has been getting up to lately can now have a tantalising — well, I hope it’s tantalising, but that’s for you to determine — glimpse, as another new poem “MacAdam Takes to the Road” has been included in the 17 July selection of Bugged submissions!* I’m delighted, not…
Amy Jo Philip 