readings
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Richard Price, the fourth of our Six Poets at the Fruitmarket Gallery, turns our gaze towards the heavens: The Mutual Satellite Assurance Company Limited A double-planet system – the Earth and the Moon. Stability, maybe stability. And maybe the moon – you know – an equal – once. Sisters – (a little big-sister, a big little-sister)
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In this poem from the third of the Six Poets at the Fruitmarket Gallery, Hannah Lowe takes us into the darkness of the heart of a family: Say Say that your mother took in a lodger. An old man say, down on his luck, mostly out of the house or asleep, no bother. Say they grew
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In the second of our posts for the Six Poets at the Fruitmarket Gallery, Jasmine Donahaye has a brush with a dark angel: An angel is passing And the silence which falls suddenly on a group, at a party, a silence that elongates, extends, becomes something unbreakable, camaraderie disintegrating, returning each of you to your awkward
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Six Poets at the Fruitmarket Gallery is back! This year, we’re on at 7:30 pm for 8:00 pm on 15 August 2013, with Isobel Dixon, Hannah Lowe, Rob A. Mackenzie, Richard Price, Jasmine Donahaye and me. Tickets are £5 from the gallery or on the door. As in previous years, I’ll be posting a poem from
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Don’t forget to join me, Michelle Bitting and host Robert Peake for the first ever Transatlantic Poetry on Air reading this evening at 8 pm UK time. The event page is here. There will also be prizes for those who tweet using the hashtag #TApoetry during the live broadcast.
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A week tonight, I will be reading for Glendale Crossing Places in Wooler. This reading has been set up through Northumbria Community connections, and will take place at St. Cuthbert’s, 12 High Street, Wooler, Northumberland, NE71 6BY. It kicks off at 7:30 PM and entry is by donation. For more information, please contact Bill Eugster
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I hope you enjoyed last week’s holiday poetry reads posts. There are some great ones coming this week, so do keep an eye on the blog. One of them is from Robert Peake, who, of course, is hosting the transatlantic reading with me and Michelle Bitting on Wednesday on Google+. Here is an invitation video
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A quick heads-up about two readings coming very soon. First, on Wednesday evening this week (3 July), I’m reading alongside Janette Ayachi, Vahni Capildeo and Rob A Mackenzie at the Yellow Bench Cafe in Leith, Edinburgh at 7:30 pm. In addition, the marvellous Ira Lightman will perform two mini-sets. Five entirely distinctive voices in what
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A huge thankyou to everyone who came to the Linlithgow launch of The North End of the Possible last night. It was a great turnout and, from my and Holm’s point of view, an enormous success. Here are a few photos of the evening, courtesy of my good friend Thomas Ritchie: Stewart, Frank and I
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Thanks to Robert Peake, I’m in the Huff again. That is, his interview with me and Rob A Mackenzie is now available in the culture section of the Huffington Post’s UK edition. I am hugely grateful to Robert for taking the time to ask us some penetrating and stimulating questions. In other news, I’ll be
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This morning was spent planning my sets for the Linlithgow launch of The North End of the Possible on Saturday this week. I’m excited about this event, because it’s not only a chance to give an extended reading from the book but to work with the violin and electric guitar duo Holm. It’s not just
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Diary permitting, I’m going to be participating in the rather exciting developments that Robert Peake has just announced in his post: Transatlantic Poetry Readings On Air. Watch this space — and that — for more info!
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A quick reminder that I’m reading tonight at 7:30pm at the CCA in Glasgow alongside Máire Wren, Colette Ní Ghallchoír and Aonghas MacNeacail as part of an Irish Pages event in association with Conradh na Gaeilge Glaschú. It’s also the Scottish launch of our current tenth-anniversary issue, “Self”, which will be on sale alongside another
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I have three readings coming up in the next several weeks. The first, on Saturday 15 June at 7:30 pm in the CCA in Glasgow is an event from Irish Pages and Conradh na Gaeilge Glaschú as part of Glasgow’s Irish Language Festival, Féile na Gaeilge Glaschú 2013. I will be chairing and reading at this event,
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It’s exactly a week until the launch of The North End of the Possible and Rob A Mackenzie’s The Good News at the Scottish Poetry Library! If you’re within striking distance of Edinburgh on Saturday 4 May, come on down for 1:00 pm to savour some readings from me and Rob, enjoy a glass of
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