readings
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Kevin Cadwallender, editor of Red Squirrel Scotland, has organised an Edinburgh benefit reading for Salt. It’s at Out of the Blue arts centre, Dalmeny Street on Thursday July 30th at 7 pm. Poets include JL Williams, Rob A Mackenzie, Colin Donati, Kevin Cadwallender, James Oates, Anita Govan, Steve Urwin, Alistair Robinson and others TBC, all
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My time for the “Four Hour Festival” event has been confirmed: I’m on at 15:00 and it’s a 10-minute set. Plenty time to get myself organised for that. The event is open to prose as well as poetry and I’ve no idea what the balance between the two will be, but it should be fun.
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Less than a week to go to the Troubadour reading, and there’s already another HappenStance date in the diary: several HappenStance poets–including myself, Patricia Ace, James Wood, Eleanor Livingstone and Margaret Christie–will be reading at St Mungo’s Mirrorball on Thursday 2nd October. Full line-up and more details nearer the time but, for the moment, those
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Just a quickie to say the HappenStance Troubadour gig is now listed on the Troubadour site‘s programme pages. Can’t quite believe I’ll be heading down to London for it in a fortnight’s time! Last time I was in the city was in 2003 for a Keith Jarrett Trio gig. So much has happened since then,
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Well, it was a trimmed-back audience last night at the Shore Poets. I don’t know whether it was the Grangemouth strike that kept people away, but it can’t have been the weather unless everyone had fallen asleep in the sun. Whatever, we were maybe around 20 down on the usual number, but it was a
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How readings can creep up on you! It’s only a few days until this month’s Shore Poets, where I’ll be reading alongside Colin Will and Julie Sheridan, with music provided by blues/folk/fingerpicking guitarist Callum More. I’m stepping down from the group after June, so this will be my last appearance as a Shore poet. It
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I jumped into the car first thing yesterday morning and zipped up the road to St Andrew’s for my fix of StAnza 2008, listening to The Guardian CD of great 20th century poets on the way to get me in the mood. My first event was the masterclass in translation with Helmut Haberkamm and Fitzgerald
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Mark Ogle’s family and several Shore Poets past and present. Alison playing. The Mark Ogle Memorial Poem trophy. Hamish Whyte, Jacob Polley and Diana Hendry relax. Angus Peter Campbell receives the trophy from Lizzie and Deborah. Angus Peter with Mark Ogle’s family. (These photos, with full tags, are also on the Shore Poets Facebook pages.)
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News just in: there’ll be a HappenStance Press reading at Coffee House Poetry at the Troubadour in London on 26th May. Several HappenStance poets will read, including Rob A Mackenzie, Eleanor Livingstone, Michael Mackmin (editor of The Rialto), Gregory Leadbetter, me and Helena Nelson (Mme HappenStance herself). I’ve been thinking about trying to read in
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Out last night to Polly Clark‘s reading at Edinburgh Uni’s Office of Lifelong Learning, where she’s the Royal Literary Funding writer in residence. Polly was reading along with three OLL students. Debbie Cannon, who read at last month’s Shore Poets, was the only poet of the three. She kicked off with a reduced version of
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Besides the usual fine fare at Shore Poets this Sunday, with Jacob Polley, Diana Hendry and Debbie Cannon, there’ll be something extra special: acclaimed Gaelic poet and novelist Angus Peter Campbell will launch the Mark Ogle Memorial Poem. Angus Peter will read Mark Ogle’s poem “English Rain” and “Our Rain”, the poem he has written
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Rob Mackenzie has posted a list of forthcoming readings at the Great Grog. It’s an interesting and exciting line-up. I’m slated to reappear in February next year, along with the always-entertaining Tim Turnbull, Andrew Shields (who I’m looking forward to meeting) and AN Other. Before that, the only reading in the diary is the April
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If you’re one of those people who thought about going to the reading at the Great Grog last night but decided to stay in and watch, oh I don’t know, the Antiques Roadshow, kick yourself. No: harder. Colin Will and Rob Mackenzie have already blogged on the night, so I won’t go on at length,
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David Kinloch is certainly a busy man this weather: besides being involved in the bid to establish a writers centre in Glasgow’s Merchant City, he’s the main force behind Vital Synz, a new Glasgow poetry society, which launches on Tuesday 6 November at Òran Mór with a reading by Liz Lochhead and Carol Ann Duffy.
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Looks like the 100 Poets Gathering at StAnza was a pretty incendiary event! You can catch up with some more of what went on at the festival with Rob Mackenzie’s series of StAnza postings at Surroundings. Rob, a fellow HappenStance poet, read at a pamphlet poets event this year, as I did last year. He
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