poetry
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Kevin Cadwallander, well known to those of us and the Edinburgh poetry scene, has organised a poetry marathon to take place at the Forest Cafe tomorrow and Friday this week. His aim is to have 100 poets reading 15 min each. The event runs from 10 AM to 7 PM on Thursday, then 10 PM
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Here’s a wee round-up of what six Salt authors, including me, are up to in Auld Reekie this August: Salt in the Edinburgh Festivals « blog.saltpublishing.com.
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Mark Burnhope enters the ranks of Salt Publishing this week when his debut pamphlet, The Snowboy, is published in the Salt Modern Voices series. Mark, an exciting young poet, will be popping by Tonguefire in August to talk about the pamphlet, poetry, disability and faith. Meanwhile, to whet your appetite in a slightly unorthodox fashion,
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If you’re looking for some early-morning literature in central Edinburgh this August, The Early Word at Captains Bar would be a fine place to head for. It’s a 9:30 am single-author reading with a question and answer session. Tickets are £5.50 (£4.50 concs), with a cake and a coffee thrown into the price. I’m reading
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I’m rather chuffed today to see the full contents for the forthcoming Salt Publishing anthology The Best British Poetry 2011. It’s quite a roster of many of the best new and emerging poets from the UK, with plenty familiar names and a good number that are new to me. It is particularly pleasing that my sequence
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I’ve been trying for ages to write something that uses various Scots words and phrases for, or connected with, rain. It only occurred to me recently that vispo/concrete poetry might be a productive approach for this project, which I’m calling “In Wir Element”. This is the first of what I hope will be several pieces
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The Herald‘s annual Scots language poetry competition, the McCash, was launched last week. The full article about this year’s competition, including winning poems from previous years, is here. However, you need to have an account at the paper — which is free — if you want to read the whole article, so here are the
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Note: this piece plays with the Scots word for/spelling of “roof”.
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Russell Jones, well known to those of us on the Edinburgh poetry scene, has reviewed The Ambulance Box on his blog. It’s a balanced, insightful review, with some really interesting things to say about, for instance, the role of the land in the book’s poems. I take on board the following criticism: the formal structure
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I’ve been thinking about the idea of home over the past several days, in preparation for my workshop and reading at Greenbelt at the end of August. So far, the only creative response it’s produced — well, the only one I think worth sharing, anyway — is a handful of Scots pwoemrds or vispo pieces,
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Jennifer Williams keeps it short and to the point: When on the Aeolian Isles (thanks to a travel bursary but sort of like a holiday as it was so stunning) writing my first collection … Metamorphoses by Ovid Collected Poems by C.P. Cavafy JL Williams’ poetry has been published in journals including Poetry Wales, The
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The times and venues of my appearances at this year’s Greenbelt festival have just been confirmed. First up is a poetry workshop at 2 pm on Saturday 27 August in Crest. The workshop is entitled “Lines Home” and will probe the idea of home, tying into this year’s Greenbelt theme. That’s followed on Sunday 28
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This is an edited version of a piece that Elspeth wrote for the Scottish Poetry Library‘s Poetry Reader newsletter last year: On the road touring across the USA and Canada as production manager with Puppet State Theatre Company, my bedside book collection a) moves from one hotel nightstand to another on an almost weekly basis b) overlaps
Amy Jo Philip 