readings
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It’s National Poetry Month in the UK and, to celebrate the fact, I’m doing a reading tomorrow (Tuesday 17 April) with fellow Linlithgow poet Jane McKie — winner of last year’s Edwin Morgan poetry competition — and Bathgate poet Alistair Findlay. The reading will be held at Far from the Madding Crowd, 20 High Street, Linlithgow.
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Ah, it’s good to be back! Sorry I’ve neglected the blog over the past while, but my Poetry School online course swallowed up all blogging time over the past couple of months. It was also good to be back to reading at 10Red in Edinburgh on Wednesday last week. (I apologise to all, especially Kevin
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Merry Christmas! I hope you’ve had a Christmas full of light, blessings and peace. I trust you haven’t eaten too much turkey (or whatever you dined on for Christmas day — some rather delicious pork in our case*). Equally well, I hope you’re not staring at a fridge full of leftovers for the next three
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Little did I know when I stepped on to the stage in Wigtown that it would lead to my appearing on Radio Scotland’s main Christmas morning broadcast. It just so happened that the producer of “Christmas Morning with Cathy MacDonald and Ricky Ross” was in the audience, not that I knew that until an e-mail
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At Rob A Mackenzie‘s instigation, poets Dorothy Baird and I, children’s author Lari Don, novelists Stephanie Taylor and Craig Sterling, and storyteller/entertainer/author Peter Snow will be reading at the Edinburgh Rudolf Steiner School Christmas market on Saturday 19 November. The market runs from 11 am to 4 pm. Dorothy and I are reading at 12:30 pm;
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Was it Wigtown the last time I blogged? Good heavens! A month is far too long in blog land, isn’t it? Well, I suppose that gives me a neat little link to this post, which is mainly to say that, if you’re anywhere near the National Library of Scotland on Thursday, you should come down
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I had an amazing weekend at Wigtown Book Festival. My previous experience of the town, described here, could not have been any more of a contrast. There was a real buzz about the place and, unsurprisingly, I kept bumping into people I know from the literary scene. The town seemed to have come into its
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Fear not, dear friends: this is not me fessing up to an alcohol problem. No, in fact, it is simply to say that I’m taking part in Gutter magazine‘s “A Night in the Gutter” cabaret evening at Wigtown Book Festival. The other readers will be Rodge Glass — whom I met for the first time
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Greenbelt 2011 was only my second experience of the festival and my first as a contributor but that’s easily enough to make me hanker more than ever after becoming a regular Greenbelter. I can think of nothing I wouldn’t classify as a highlight, although I know that sounds rather contradictory. The only possible exception is
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Feels like it’s ages since I’ve blogged. It certainly feels like I’ve done quite a bit since I last posted anything, so here’s a wee roundup of what I’ve been up to: A Knife Fight in a Telephone Box Our madcap poetry competition, in which the competition had little really to do with the 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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Helen Mort strikes an arborial note for the fifth poem from the 16 August Fruitmarket readers: Grasmere Oak Since there’s no blind, the tree outside’s a curtain on your room, the yolk-bright mornings breaking through. Last night, its shadow seemed the only thing between you and the leaking dark, the rain set loose and needling
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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
Amy Jo Philip 