readings
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Come and hear me read as part of Queer Breakfast Club – Grangemouth‘s first ever pride celebration, Proud Corners! The event is free but you are welcome to give a donation on the day. QBC is a fantastic local group that, despite only having started in January, is up for two awards: organisation of the
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Christmas is coming, the wallet’s getting thin – and that’s with me having bought only two Christmas presents and a small amount of chocolate as things stand – but that also means the LGBT Health and Wellbeing winter celebrations are just round the corner. As the poster above indicates, I’m a featured performer at the
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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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It’s Pride month! Though this is obviously not my first Pride since coming out, it’s the first one I’ve marked in any way on the site. What better way to celebrate Pride than with poetry? Here are a few places you’ll find me over the next several weeks. First up, I’ll be reading a short
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I’m just back through the door from a practice with Stewart Veitch and Frank Glynn — a.k.a. Holm — for Tuesday’s Hidden Door performance. It’s the first time we have tried out what we are planning to do for the gig and we are all really excited about how well the music and poetry are
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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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With Linlithgow Book Festival over for another year, my thoughts are turning to the next reading. I’m delighted and honoured to be reading at St Mungo’s Mirrorball on Thursday 21 November alongside the wonderful Michael Symmons Roberts, whose Drysalter deservedly won the Forward prize this year, and Alexandra Oliver. Readers of this blog will probably
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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
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I have been rather preoccupied lately with the latest course that I am tutoring for the Poetry School online and have also been kept out of further mischief by an exceedingly busy period at the day job, hence the paucity of posts in this neck of the virtual woods. However, I’m swiftly sticking my nose
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In the last of our posts for the Six Poets at the Fruitmarket Gallery, Isobel Dixon pays tribute to Syd Barrett: Astronomy Sonnetry “This is the place of my song-dream, the place the music played to me,” whispered the Rat, as if in a trance. ‘The Piper at the Gates of Dawn’ from The Wind in
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