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January 2020
Tapsalteerie at Citadel
With A.C. Clarke, Maggie Rabatski, Sheila Templeton and Tim Craven.
Find out more »Tam O’Shanter: Telling the Big Tale
Donald Smith shares his lifelong quest to understand and do justice to Robert Burns' poem, Tam O'Shanter.
Find out more »Writers of Colour Group
Join fellow writers of colour in Scotland for a two hour writers group at the Scottish Poetry Library. This group will serve as a relaxed space to write, connect and share your writing. The group will be facilitated by Scottish Poetry Library’s Engagement and Learning Coordinator and poet and playwright, Hannah Lavery. This group is open to writers of colour who currently live in Scotland. Please note due to the limited space the workshop will be limited to fifteen spaces.
Find out more »Create & Connect Showcase
Hear work from new members of the Glasgow Women’s Library’s Autumn Create and Connect group in a magical evening of poetry, prose, storytelling and – most importantly – creating and connecting.
Find out more »Just Not 7
Just Not is an evening of poetry readings that is open for anyone to attend. The poets curated tend toward the youthful and the inventive. The first JUST NOT of 2020 features a 'carload' of poets crawling up to Edinburgh from Brighton: Alison Rumfitt, Nehaal Bajwa, Kat Sinclair, and James Garwood-Cole. Once again the show will be over at Henry's Cellar Bar on Morrison Street and entry is FREE, the space turning itself over to poetry, 8 til late. Please…
Find out more »Open Book
Drop-in poetry reading workshop.
Find out more »Getting More Out of Writing Poetry (afternoon session)
Poet and teacher Donny O’Rourke takes this long established, popular and influential, afternoon course.
Find out more »Getting More Out of Writing Poetry (evening session)
Poet and teacher Donny O’Rourke takes this long established, popular and influential, afternoon course.
Find out more »Getting Sticky With It: Writing Workshops Inspired by Edwin Morgan’s Scrapbooks
Part of a collaborative project between Edwin Morgan Centenary, University of Glasgow and Speculative Books.
Find out more »The Cantos of Ezra Pound
This is the fourth event in a running series of readings of Ezra Pound's poem The Cantos. The proposed event includes some of the most beautiful and best-known poems of Pound's entire poetic career. The Scottish actor Paul Cunningham will read cantos 42-45-46-47-49 and 51. Our guest, Prof. Peter Liebregts, will introduce this section of the poem and each canto in turn. Discussion after readings is welcome! The event is organised by Andrew Taylor and Roxana Preda, University of Edinburgh.
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