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December 2018
St. Mungo’s Mirrorball
With Collette Bryce, Kathrine Sowerby and Stewart Sanderson.
Find out more »The God Damn Debut Slam December
Edinburgh’s 'most bonkers, least predictable live literature night!'
Find out more »Winter Workshop – Creative Writing Workshop for Children
Come and join poet and children's author Rachel Plummer for a two hour creative writing workshop for primary school aged children at the Scottish Poetry Library. Suitable for all ages and abilities. Please bring a pen and paper or other writing device. To book, contact Rachel by email at RachelElizabethPlummer@gmail.com.
Find out more »Winter Workshop – Creative Writing Workshop for Teens
Join poet and children's author Rachel Plummer for a two hour creative writing workshop for teens.
Find out more »Toil & Trouble: Winter Solstice Witchcraft
An mmersive workshop to celebrate the winter solstice.
Find out more »January 2019
Speakin’ Cajun – The Revenant
With Victoria McNulty, Suky Goodfellow, Rana Marathon, Carla Woodburn, Charlie Roy and Max Scratchmann.
Find out more »A Double Tapsalteerie Launch: Stitch & An Offering
Tapsalteerie is delighted to announce the publication of two new pamphlets by two wonderful poets - Stewart Sanderson's An Offering and Samuel Tongue's Stitch. An Offering | Stewart Sanderson Stewart Sanderson is a poet from Scotland. His work has been recognised by a number of national prizes, notably an Eric Gregory Award and a Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship. He has been twice shortlisted for the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award, as well as receiving commendations from the PN Review and Stephen Spender poetry prizes. He…
Find out more »Zen and the Art of Rucksack Maintenance: Nan Shepherd’s Extraordinary Journey from Flaneur to Fiver
A slightly sideways look at the influences on Nan Shepherd, offered by her friend and literary executor, Erlend Clouston.
Find out more »Glasgow Poetry Book Group
The January book group will meet to discuss 'Us' by Zaffar Kunial.
Find out more »Poetry Association of Scotland: Annual General Meeting
The PAS' AGM.
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