Ryan Van Winkle
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While song may share 99% of poetry’s DNA, it isn’t poetry, any more than, say, a chimpanzee is a bonobo. This, from Adam Newey reviewing Hard Ground, poems by Tom Waits, photographs by Michael O’Brien, in yesterday’s Guardian Review, strikes me as a shrewd snippet on the difference between song and poetry. (Newey has a
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There’s a rather lovely wee post about this coming Tuesday’s reading over Ryan’s blog. He’s too kind, especially in rewarding me a Forward nomination I’ve never had! I’m really looking forward to this reading too. I’ve read with Ryan a few times now, but this is the first event we’ve done just the two of
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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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Ryan Van Winkle is reader in residence at the Scottish Poetry Library and runs the monthly literary cabaret The Golden Hour at the Forest Cafe. His Crashaw Prize-winning first collection Tomorrow, We Will Live Here will be published this autumn. Catch Ryan and seven other Salt poets on Monday 23 August at 6.30 pm in
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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.
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Salt is opening a new Scottish arm based in Glasgow and plans to extend its Scottish list significantly. On Saturday 29 May, there’lll be a series of events in Edinburgh to launch and celebrate this new venture, culminating in a reading of new fiction and poetry 4:30 pm for a 5 pm start, finishing at
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Congratulations to all the winners of this year’s Crashaw prize. Here at Tonguefire, the biggest whoop of all — and I tell, you readers, it is a decibelicious whoop indeed — is for the fact that Ryan Van Winkle is among their number.
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And the first blogly act of 2010 is to congratulate all those shortlisted for Salt’s 2009 Crashaw Prize, not least Ryan Van Winkle, the reader in residence at the Scottish Poetry Library and one of those forces for the good of (Scottish) poetry hid away in the Forest. It is much deserved and I have
Amy Jo Philip 