Shore Poets
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Here’s the Shore Poets programme from September 2007 to June 2008 (guest poets in bold, Shore poets in italics and new poets in plain text). Don’t forget our special Orkney event on Sunday 29th July. 200730th SeptPolly Clark, Ian McDonough and Gilly Garnett 28th OctGillian Allnutt, Christine De Luca and James W Wood 25th NovDavid
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I can’t help but think that last night’s Shore Poets event could have shown some of Thursday night‘s slammers a thing or two about how imaginative and contentful something that might be described as a performance poem can be. Nowhere was that more the case than in the closing set, from the night’s main reader,
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The next reading I have in the diary at the moment isn’t until October, but it’s one I’m particularly looking forward to. Pam Beasant, the first George Mackay Brown writing fellow, contacted Shore Poets convener, Christine De Luca early this year enquiring whether we would be interested in an exchange with some Orkney poets. We
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Richard Dawson, musician of the month, provided a fine complement to the poetry, as on his previous Shore Poets appearances. In fact, to Richard goes the best rhyme of the evening: gregarious:areas. If I remember rightly, the lines were: “my pocketbook guide says they [bullfinches] are naturally gregarious; and found in cemeteries and heavily wooded
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Just got word that Kate Clanchy has had to cancel for Sunday due to bronchitis. Fortunately, we have managed to secure a last-minute replacement: Alastair Finlay, writer of Sex, Death and Football* and, more recently, The Love Songs of John Knox, both from Luath. The rest of the line-up and other arrangements remain as advertised.
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Due to family circumstances, I’ve had to pull out of the 100 Poets Gathering at StAnza and won’t be able to make it to the festival at all. This means that my next scheduled reading is at the Shore Poets event in May, when I’ll be appearing alongside Kate Clanchy and my fellow HappenStancer, Rob
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There was a good crowd in Mai Thai–the new Shore Poets venue–on Sunday night to hear Alan Hill, Jim C Wilson and Matthew Hollis. The readers strained a little bit to make themselves heard at the back, so I think we’ll might be using a small PA in future. Nonetheless, it was a good reading.
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On Saturday night, the Shore Poets celebrated Stewart Conn‘s 70th birthday at the Counting House in Edinburgh. The evening, which was open to the public and more or less sold out with various bodies from the poetry world, involved readings from a number of poets whom Stewart admires and counts among his friends, including Anne
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No, I’ve not undergone a road-to-Pittodrie conversion to the Church of Two Halves; the season I’m talking about is the Shore Poets autumn programme, which got off to a superb start last night with Jackie Kay, Christine De Luca, Mandy Maxwell and music from the Linties. Mandy Maxwell is a graduate of the creative writing
Amy Jo Philip 