Simon Barraclough
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Yikes! It’s so long since I’ve posted here it almost feels like I’ve forgotten what to do. Anyway, here I am back again to let you know about what I’m up to this Edinburgh Festival. On Thursday (14 August), I’ll be at Summerhall for the launch of the Irish Pages anthology, The Other Tongues: An
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Last on the 06 | 16 front, here’s a poem from me, first published in 5PX2: The Melody at Night, With You Snow bound and determined to break out of the silence enforced by chronic fatigue Jarrett is at his piano again (the first time in let’s not contemplate how long for a man as
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Simon Barraclough gets to the core of things with these delicious short poems from his new book, Neptune Blue. Don’t miss him at the Fruitmarket on 16 August. Starfish Heart swabs dead cells from the jungle gym of my ribs as it clambers about, fooling doctors and cardiographs. I wonder why it has five limbs?
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My mini tour together with Rob A Mackenzie closed at the Wheatsheaf in London, where we read with fellow Salt poet Liane Strauss. The evening was put together and wittily compered by yet another from the Salt stable: the mighty Simon Barraclough, who has a second collection, Neptune Blue, coming out in July. We had
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Isobel Dixon was born in Umtata, South Africa, grew up in the Karoo region and studied in Stellenbosch, and then in Edinburgh, before the world of publishing lured her to work in London. Her powerful, moving Salt collection A Fold in the Map was published in 2007. Catch Isobel and seven other Salt poets on
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About this time of year, friends always ask me if I’m doing any poetry thing on the Edinburgh Fringe. The answer has often been no, but this year it’s a hearty and excited yes: on Monday 23 August, I’ll be part of a Salt poetry extravaganza on the Free Fringe. The reading includes no fewer
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