Rob A Mackenzie
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Following the success of last year’s August reading at the Fruitmarket Gallery, we’ve decided to repeat the format with a slightly different line-up of poets. Funnily enough, we’ve ended up going for the same date, which allows me to revive the 06 | 16 tag. Here are the details: When: 16 August 2012, 7:30 for
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Ah, it’s good to be back! Sorry I’ve neglected the blog over the past while, but my Poetry School online course swallowed up all blogging time over the past couple of months. It was also good to be back to reading at 10Red in Edinburgh on Wednesday last week. (I apologise to all, especially Kevin
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At Rob A Mackenzie‘s instigation, poets Dorothy Baird and I, children’s author Lari Don, novelists Stephanie Taylor and Craig Sterling, and storyteller/entertainer/author Peter Snow will be reading at the Edinburgh Rudolf Steiner School Christmas market on Saturday 19 November. The market runs from 11 am to 4 pm. Dorothy and I are reading at 12:30 pm;
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My contributor’s copy of Magma Poetry issue 51 arrived in the post today. It’s my Magma debut, with one new poem, “Fallen Icons of the Angel Barbie”, and I’m rather stunned to be named on the front cover alongside Selima Hill, Gillian Clarke, Penelope Shuttle and Pascale Petit. Rob A Mackenzie and Polly Clark also
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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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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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I seem to have been nothing but a silo blogger of late, when I’ve been a blogger at all. So much to catch up on, so little time and energy — so much to do! Anyway, it’s all good — or at least any of it that interest you is, dear reader, provided you’re still
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Unfortunately, the 4 October reading in Newcastle has had to be cancelled due to venue problems. However, the reading at the Lit & Phil on 24 November is certainly still on. I’m very much looking forward to reading there. Closer to home, I’ll also be reading alongside Ryan Van Winkle at Morningside Library on 23
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Rob A Mackenzie was born in Glasgow. He studied law and then abandoned the possibility of significant personal wealth by switching to theology. He spent a year in Seoul, eight years in Lanarkshire, five years in Turin, and now lives in Edinburgh where he organises the Poetry at the GRV reading series. His excellent first
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It’s a busy one, week after next: not only will I be reading at the Salt gig on the Free Fringe, but I’ll be back at the Banshee Labyrinth on the Wednesday afternoon (2.50 pm to be precise) to read with Claire Askew, Sophie Cooke, Gavin Inglis, Jane McKie and Andrew Wilson as part of the
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Just a quick note that Alexander Hutchison has been confirmed for the Salt Scotland launch. He joins me, Rob A. Mackenzie, Wena Poon and Ryan van Winkle, with guest Tim Turnbull. It’s shaping up to be a very good line-up indeed, if I do say so myself. I’m particularly looking forward to hearing Wena read.
Amy Jo Philip 