Breaking News: 2020 July A thank you to Hugh MacMillan for featuring me on his blog 'From the Back Room' as part of his Pestilence Poems project. which will be run some time at beginning of July. Viewable on FaceBook. Includes a video of me reading. 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 My poem 'Hanmer's Agate' 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. My poem '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 along with 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. |