Shore Poets
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Edinburgh’s Shore Poets is turning 20 this year, and the current committee has decided to record a CD with all the present and former Shore poets they can get a hold of. Hopefully, it will also include recordings of the late Gael Turnbull reading his work — they do exist; I heard some at the
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Here is the full information for my reading tomorrow at the Four Hour Festival: Venue: Evolution Cafe, Evolution House. This is the entrance to eca on the West Port. It’s a big glass building right on the corner of the crossroads, apparently. Time: I’m on at 3pm. The event starts at 1pm with Shore Poet
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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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Shore Poets on Sunday went head to head with the Euro 2008 finals. That, coupled with the start of the holidays, might well have had something to do with the somewhat reduced numbers. I have to say, it was a cracker of an evening. The new poet, Simon Pomery, was one of the best we’ve
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A week past Tuesday, I went to the launch of Angela McSeveney‘s new Mariscat pamphlet Slaughtering Beetroot at the Scottish Poetry Library. I can safely say it’s the only launch I’ve been to where beetroot cake was on offer. Angela had baked it herself, and it was, you may say, delicious. And the poetry was
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The audience for Sunday’s Shore Poets was a little thinner than usual, possibly because of the holiday weekend. Music was provided by Just Voices, a four-part acapella group, who treated us to French, Bulgarian, Scots and American songs. Beautiful stuff. Stephanie Green kicked off the poetry in the newcomer slot. I’ve seen Stephanie around the
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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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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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It was a packed house and a night of surprises. A night to remember, even if it wasn’t a night of tears. No, I’m not talking about that minor award ceremony in Holywood. I mean the Shore Poets reading last night. The crowds turned out–well, the Mai Thai was crowded–to hear Jacob Polley, Debbie Cannon
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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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One of the things I love about Shore Poets is that the format of our events often produces rich and varied evenings of music and poetry. October’s reading with James W Wood, Christine De Luca and the wonderful, quietly intense Gillian Allnutt was no exception (the only problem being that Allnutt’s quiet reading voice didn’t
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When Christine De Luca, Diana Hendry (with her partner the poet and publisher Hamish Whyte) and I touched down on a overcast but none too windy Orkney a week past Thursday, we were met very warmly by Pam Beasant, whose brainchild our visit was. While Christine sorted out her hire car, Pam drove Diana, Hamish
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Well, it was a couple of hours ago, but I got over the anxiety and packed. Off to Orkney tomorrow with fellow Shore Poets. It’s just possible there might be an opportunity to blog in situ, but I expect I’ll write something about it on my return.
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I’m off to a course with Matthew Hollis and Colette Bryce at the Lumb Bank Arvon centre tomorrow, so this online tongue will stop wagging for the next five or six days at least. Still, there’s a reasonably amount for you to enjoy in the virtual cupboard under the stairs. It should be a fun
Amy Jo Philip 