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December 2019
Midweek Poems with Open Book
A weekly shared reading group, free and open to the public.
Find out more »Bashabi Fraser gives the John Masefield Lecture on Rabindranath Tagore: A Renaissance Man
Bashabi Fraser bases her lecture on a new book she's written about Rabindranath Tagore.
Find out more »Massive Outpouring of Love
Massive Outpouring of Love is an Authentic Artist Collective variety show fundraiser for Extinction Rebellion, in association with refugee charity, MOOL Dumfries & Galloway. A gathering of some of Scotland’s top musical artists – Mairi Campbell, Christine Sparks, Harley Loudon, Kate Young – as well as storyteller, Alice Fernbank, and poet-performers Rachel Amey and Beth Godfrey, present a unique, one-night-only smorgasbord of love in support of XR’s climate change rebellion. Compered by the poet and puppeteer, Elspeth Murray, you are…
Find out more »The Scottish Poetry Library at The Stove
With Kat Edwards, poet and storyteller Hugh McMillan, poet and playwright Tom Murray and poet Clare Phillips.
Find out more »Die Bard!
Join John McClane, rogue cop trapped in a fifty-storey skyscraper on Christmas Eve with a band of ruthless terrorists and armed only with five…poets?!
Find out more »Voice of the People #Hamish100
A musical and literary celebration of the legacy of Hamish Henderson.
Find out more »Children’s Creative Writing Group
A friendly writing group for under 12s.
Find out more »Saturday Poems with Open Book
A shared reading group, free and open to the public.
Find out more »Are We In A Book?
Black Agnes Press presents the Edinburgh launch of our first anthology for children. Come along and hear fabulous writers including Catherine Simpson, Helen Boden, Russell Jones and Peter Mortimer read from Are We In A Book? and get yourself a copy while you're there. £5 a book, of which £3 goes to Barnardo's Scotland.
Find out more »Writers Of Colour Group -End of the Year Sharing
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.…
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