Breaking News: 2021 June 21st, 7pm I will be reading at the Midsummer concert (poetry and music) of Dove Tales online. May 31st, 7.30 p.m. Iain Whitely has invited me along with Milla Van Der Have and Rachel Donati to read at the online launch of his first collection 'Ping!' (Write Bloody, U.K.) Jan 21st 7p.m. online. Link on Dove Tales website. I'll be reading my poem 'Prayer for Peace' (on the 70th Anniversary of the Hiroshima Bomb) at a Dove Tales event celebrating the UN's Treaty on the Proliferation of Nuclear weapons, banning the use of nuclear weapons, which will come into force as international law on following day. Jan The Nansen ebook anthology (Ward/St Andrews Museum/StAnza edited by Juanita Adcock) has been published, including my poem responding to a photograph of a polar bear by the Norwegian explorer, scientist, diplomat, humanitarian and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Fridtjof Nansen. You can read more about Nansen at this link: 2020 Nov 26th My poem 'Grimsey Island, May 2017' appears in 'Channel' magazine. I will also be reading it at the online launch, Nov 26th on Zoom at 8 p.m. Nov Delighted that Milla Van der Have has invited me to be co-selector of poets for her monthly online poetry event PoetryLit. Oct 2nd I am reading as 'Featured Poet' along with Hugh McMillan at an online event PoetryLit. 7pm GMT. Aug 'Desire Paths' appears in Bill Herbert and Andy Jackson's 'New Boots and Pantisocracies', pestilence poems. (Online blog). June-July Delighted to have been accepted onto the Seamus Heaney Centre, (Queen's University, Belfast) Poetry Summer School. Online due to Covid. Fri 6th-Sun 8th March Delighted that 'Berlin Umbrella', (which launched in Berlin in 2018) has been confirmed as appearing at StAnza, Scotland's poetry festival in St Andrews. This is an aural walk, a poetry/sound collaboration between myself as poet and Sonja Heyer, as sound artist. Participants listen to recordings within special umbrellas and go on a self- directed walk. The three of us will also take part in a Meet the Artist event on Sat 11.30-12.15 to talk about the genesis and process of the 3-way More on Sonja Heyer . Valerie Coffin Price, the artist, has also responded to the poems with art-work entitled 'Berlin Water'. This will be exhibited at the Byre Theatre, level 4 during the festival. Meet the Artist event on Sat 11.30-12.15 We will talk about the genesis and process of the 3-way collaboration. . 2019 Nov 12th, Tues 'Hanmer's Agate' (first published in Magma) will be published in Dove Tales' latest Anthology 'Walls or Bridges'. I will be reading it at the launch at Lighthouse Bookshop, West Nicolson Street, Edinburgh. 7p.m. Sept. 'Crimson' will be published in New Writing Scotland, 37 (ASLS) and there will be launch readings in Edinburgh and Glasgow.TBC. July 18th, Thurs Delighted I will be reading at the West Cork Literary Festival Fringe in Bantry, S/W Ireland at the Organico cafe, at 4.30pm. June 2nd, Sunday Reading at the Edinburgh Botanical Gardens as part of the Dean Poets: Vicki Feaver, Anna Crowe, Jane McKie, Paula Jennings and Patricia Ace ; Venue: the Botanical Cottage, 3-5pm. £12 (£10 members) includes tea and scones. A fund-raising for the Botanical Gardens. |