Angela McSeveney
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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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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,
Amy Jo Philip 