poetry
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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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There are a couple of reviews of Tonguefire (the pamphlet, that is, not the blog) online. Colin Will’s concise review is on the review pages of the Poetry Scotland website. You have to scroll down quite a way or do a search for the title. He says mine is “a refreshing and distinctive new voice”,…
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Michael Symmons Roberts now has a website, which I’ve added to the links. The site looks very nice indeed. It even has the potential for an online parlour game for those familiar with Michael’s writing: the background for his name on the banner consists of a mesh of phrases from his work. So far, I’ve…
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Went to hear Ruth Padel read at a Poetry Association of Scotland event in the Scottish Poetry Library last night. She’s an interesting writer–possessed of erudition, intellect and striking emotional intelligence–and an engaging reader. The reading included a spellbinding performance of the long title poem from her latest collection, The Soho Leopard, from memory. It’s…
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“For Broken or Worse“, has been posted on Spring Tides. The sequence is about the consequences of anger and depression in a marriage and is written in the voice of the wife. Section V from the sequence, “A Perfect Drying Day”, won last year’s Amnesty competition. The Spring Tides website is very nicely designed: not…
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My short sequence, “For Broken or Worse”, will be published on the Spring Tides poetry group website in the next week. Look out for the link appearing under “Publications”.
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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 stumbled upon Surroundings, the blog of Rob A Mackenzie, whose fine pamphlet The Clown of Natural Sorrow is also published by HappenStance. I bumped into him a couple of times at StAnza and his write-up of the festival is here.
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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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Tonguefire is the title of my first pamphlet of poems. Published in June 2005, it was the second pamphlet from Helena Nelson’s HappenStance Press. (The first was Helena’s own hilarious Unsuitable Poems.) The image on the cover, which you can see to the left, was designed by Gillian Beaton. The title poem, “Tonguefire Night”, is…
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StAnza 2006 Poetry FestivalSunday 19 March 11.30am Reading: Pamphlet Poets (£3.50/£2.00) (12.30)St John’s Undercroft, South Street, St Andrews, Scotland Richard Price, Siriol Troup & Andrew PhilipThree poets who have all published pamphlets as their work developed The youngest of the Informationist group of poets, Richard Price has work in numerous chapbooks and journals. His critically…
Amy Jo Philip 