readings
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For our third poem from the 16 August Fruitmarket readers, Helen Ivory takes us to the threshold between this world and the next: My Grandmother and Mrs Crow While she was dying her dead friend stayed with her all night. She wore a frayed hospital gown, and sat in a wheelchair. She was telling her
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Rob A Mackenzie gets musical for our second poem from the 16 August Fruitmarket readers: Yo La Tengo Top of the Pops, backing tracks battle with vocal autotune, emerge as helium monotone: DJ Corporate’s Legless Crew remix ‘Bores on 45’ and for the ninety-fifth week running Yo La Tengo are non-movers at number two, above
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I’ve just been putting together a tasty wee poetry reading for 16 August. It will be at at the Fruitmarket Gallery Edinburgh and will feature Rob A Mackenzie, Isobel Dixon, Simon Barraclough, Helen Ivory, Helen Mort and myself. I’m really excited to be reading alongside such cracking poets in such a wonderful venue at 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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A quick reminder about the Chinese Whispers event at the Scottish Poetry Library on Wednesday this week. It’s part of the Poetry Beyond Text season, which I blogged about here. It’s free and it starts at 6 pm. E-mail reception@spl.org.uk if you’re planning on going. Various artists and poets involved will discuss the process of
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It has been a deeply unproductive day, so I thought I’d catch up with a little blogging and, simultaneously, remind myself of some recent productivity. The current exhibition at the good ole SPL features a selection of work created as part of Poetry Beyond Text, an extensive, exciting interdisciplinary research programme run jointly by the
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The second leg of our Out of the Veg Box mini tour was the Birdcage in Norwich. We arrived there in good time and met Joshua Jones in the Waterstones by the castle, a meeting point chosen largely by our meanderings through the town to find the Birdcage. Josh took us to the pub, which
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I count myself highly fortunate that, with the Out of the Veg Box mini-tour last week, I had an almost immediate opportunity to put into practice what I’d learned at Cove Park the previous week (see here and here for that). Rob A Mackenzie and I put together the tour way before the opportunity at
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Details of my mini tour to Cambridge, Norwich and London with Rob A Mackenzie have just gone up on the Salt blog. The tour also features Liane Strauss in London and Joshua Jones in Norwich, with open mic spots in Cambridge too. Hope to see some of you at one or another of the readings!
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Don’t let that post title worry you: I’m not revealing a previously undisclosed predeliction for the gee-gees. Au contraire, I’m just excited to be appearing at this year’s Greenbelt festival, which is based at Cheltenham racecourse. For those of you unfamiliar with Greenbelt, it describes itself as a festival “where faith, arts and justice collide”,
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The World Book Night event at St John’s on Saturday didn’t go quite as planned. David’s books hadn’t arrived on time. Instead, he had two boxes of Philip Pullman’s Northern Lights — somewhat ironically, given Pullman’s views on religion — and one of John Le Carré’s The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. Still, with
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It’s World Book Night on Saturday 5 March, and St John’s Church, Linlithgow has a juicy wee event planned to celebrate. It’s the brainchild of David Todd, community outreach pastor, who is a registered World Book Night book giver-away, and I’ll be taking part. David will be giving away his WBN copies of Stuart: A
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There’s a rather lovely wee post about this coming Tuesday’s reading over Ryan’s blog. He’s too kind, especially in rewarding me a Forward nomination I’ve never had! I’m really looking forward to this reading too. I’ve read with Ryan a few times now, but this is the first event we’ve done just the two of
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