MORE TREATS FROM THE CITY OF POETS (AND PEOPLE!) GLASGOW - CITY OF POETS – FORTHCOMING EVENTS Monday 25th November 8pm – 10.30 Rio Cafe 27 Hyndland Street Last Monday at Rio Brian Johnstone and Trio Verso return to The Rio this month. The former director of Stanza Poetry Festival and his cooking jazz droogs blowing hot and cool. First hour is open mic so if youve seen living design nows the time to sign. Cairns comperes Tuesday 26th November, from 7pm to 8.30pm, CCA Clubroom Book Week Scotland with Appletree Writers. Book Week Scotland celebrates books and reading throughout Scotland every year, between 25 November and 1 December. The SWC will host the launch of two anthologies by Appletree Writers which attracted submissions from all across Scotland: ‘In On The Tide’ and ‘Harbour’, proceeds of which will go to the RNLI. The editor Hannah Lavery and several of the contributors to the books will be reading from their work: Samuel Best, G W Colkitto, Alice Mitchell, Roy Moller, and George Pirie. Appletree writers are a supportive community of writers which holds engaging with the wider community at its heart. Proud to be supporting the RNLI and Scottish Women’s Aid. Hannah Lavery’s first collection of short stories, Kicked from the inside, was recently published by Appletree Writers and is already enjoying its second print run. She is to be introduced and discussed as an emerging writer at the International AfroEuropeans Conference at the University Of London in October. After a successful commission for Edinburgh University for the Edinburgh Fringe 2013 she is now working on a new Spoken Word piece. Her second collection of short stories, is set to be published in late 2014. Samuel Best’s début novel will be published by Fledgling Press in 2014 and is about Scottish national identity, violence and running away. He tweets at @spbbest and has stories available at samuelbest.weebly. G.W Colkitto is an ex- Inspector of Taxes, ex-Chartered Accountant, ex- Bookshop owner, who writes both poetry and prose. He has had short stories and poetry in magazines and anthologies, and has published three poetry collections. Alice Mitchell is a poet who has been published in various literary magazines and small books. She likes to see her work getting off the page and on to sculpture or cards. Roy Moller, is a singer songwriter, poet and musician. Roy, who is about to release his fourth album, was recently described on BBC 6 music as ‘Scotland’s best kept secret’ by Moller Champion Marc Riley, for whom Roy has played sessions in his own right and as part of supergroup, Jesus, Baby! Roy has also collaborated with Stevie Jackson on several Belle & Sebastian songs and the guitarist’s solo material. Jackson and Moller are also part of psychedelic garage band, The Store Keys. Involvement with the Edinburgh – based poetry/music/animation fusion Neu! Reekie! has encouraged Moller back to poetry and his poems have recently appeared in All Our Hopes and Dreams and Zest Lit. George Pirie lives in a house by a beach. He studied Creative Writing at the University Of East Anglia. His short story Pity the Poor Struggler has been selected to be included in an anthology of the best student writing from over the past four years. His First Story is to be published in the September issue of Far Off Places. He is currently working on the final draft of his novel Crushed Silk. This is a FREE event, unticketed, open to all. Wednesday 27th November 1pm Bar Gandolfi 64 Albion Street, merchant Street Literary Lunchtimes Kirsty Logan and John Glenday read from their excellent fiction and poetry Wednesday 27th November at 7.30pm CCA bar/cafe. Poetry Book group Weve chosen Maitreyabandhus first collection: The Crumb Road, published by Bloodaxe, for the November group. Well meet on Wednesday 27th at 7.30pm in the main CCA bar/cafe. Maitreyabandhu is a multi-award winning poet and this collection is a Poetry Book Society choice. I think itll be a good collection to discuss. All welcome; discussion informal; bring a friend! ps more details on the blog: glasgowpoetrybookgroup.wordpress/ Thursday 28th November 7:30 Nice’n sleazy 421 Sauciehall Street Subcity Radios Rhyming Optional brings together 8 of the countrys best poets to battle it out in the inaugural Rhyming Optional Slam. The format differs from a regular slam - this is a knockout tournament - the Poetry Champions League 2nd December 2013: 6.30pm National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh Tricolour: NLS poetry night:. The monthly night showcasing three different poetry and spoken word talents. Three different voices, three different styles, three different takes on life. This month: Maggie Rabatski, Sheila Templeton and A C Clarke. Three Poets, Three Languages of Scotland; Gaelic. Scots. English. Free Wednesday 4th December 1pm Bar Gandolfi 64 Albion Street, merchant Street Literary Lunchtimes John Burnside, Chris Agee and Sandy Hutchison read from their work Thursday 5th December 7.30 pm CCA Students from Dept of Creative Writing at the University of Strathclyde read from their work followed by an open mike Tuesday 10th December, from 7pm to 8.30pm CCA Cinema Room An evening with Jim Carruth. Jim Carruth is one of the founders and current chair of St Mungo’s Mirrorball, a network of Glasgow-based poets, and is the artistic adviser for StAnza: Scotland’s International Poetry Festival. His first collection, Bovine Pastoral, came out in 2004 and was followed by five pamphlet collections, most recently Working the Hill (Mariscat, 2011) and Rider at the Crossing (Happenstance 2012). In 2009 he was awarded a Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship and was the winner of the James McCash poetry competition. In 2010 he brought out Grace Notes 1959, a personal response to four classic and ground breaking jazz albums, and his work was also showcased in Oxford Poets 2010. Recently he was joint winner of the McLellan Poetry Prize 2013. As well as his own poetry, Jim will introduce some of his fellow poets from the Mirrorball organisation and elucidate the unique role it has played in Glasgow’s cultural life. The Mirrorball protégés who will performing their work on the night, are: William Bonar grew up in Port Glasgow and lived in Edinburgh for many years before settling in Glasgow in 1988. His pamphlet, Frostburn Steel, was published in 2004 by Dreadful Night Press and his poems have been published in a variety of newspapers, magazines and anthologies. He gained a distinction on the MLitt in Creative Writing at Glasgow University in 2008 and won the Jura Malt Whisky Prize at the Words Exhibition in the Mitchell Library in the same year. He was a participant on the Clydebuilt mentoring scheme (2009-10) under the tutelage of Liz Lochhead and a sequence of seven sonnets appears in the anthology of that Clydebuilt cohort, North Light (Dreadful Night Press, 2012). His poem, Visiting Winter: A Johannesburg Quintet, originally published in Gutter 06, was chosen for the Scottish Poetry Library’s online anthology Best Scottish Poems of 2012. Amy Anderson was a member of Clydebuilt 4 in 2010/11 mentored by Gerry Loose. Her poems have appeared in a number of magazines and anthologies and her’s debut pamphlet Night’s Fresh Velvet was published in September 2013 by Calder Wood Press. Gerry has said of her work “hers is an exciting and new voice”. Mark Russell‘s debut poetry pamphlet Pursued by Well-being is published by tall-lighthouse. He has poetry published in a variety of journals and anthologies, including The Frogmore Papers, Poetry Salzburg Review, Gutter, Cake, and Bliss (Templar), and he was shortlisted for the Bridport Prize in 2012. He has an MLitt in Creative Writing from the University of Glasgow and will forever be a St Mungo’s Mirrorball Clydebuilt poet. Thursday December 12th 8pm Dram Glasgow 232-246 Woodlands Road Launch of Jim Ferguson’s new pamphlet Song to drown a million souls Friday 13th December 8pm The vale bar 5 Dundas Street Glasgow Slam Competition Live competition for poets new and experienced. All forms of poetry are welcome - rhymers, rappers, ranters and rhapsodists. Each poet goes up to the mic twice. They have two minutes at the mic each time. Judges mark the poets for content, performance and audience reaction. Three highest scorers battle it out for the prize money. Come and test yourself against the rest of Glasgows poets. The winner gets to take part in the Scottish Slam Championships in 2014. Robin Cairns is your compere. Get your name on the list early to take part. £3 entry. Tuesday 17th December 2013, from 7pm to 8.30pm CCA Clubroom SWC Xmas Speakeasy’ Evening of recitals of poetry and short stories in English, Scots and Gaelic. Want to hear new literature in action? Every new writer has to start somewhere and reading one’s own work aloud to a small but friendly audience is a vital experience for authors as a means to gain feedback and develop their own voice. SWC members have submitted their stories and poems and will perform them on the night, but this a FREE and unticketed event, open to everyone out there to come along, not just SWC members. A party atmosphere shall prevail! The Scottish Writers’ Centre aims to be a Scotland-wide resource, to bring writers together, and spread information about our vibrant literary culture. The SWC is run solely by volunteers, therefore ‘By Writers, For Writers’ and aims to provide a space where writers can meet and share ideas and experiences about the craft of writing and learn from those further advanced. Tickets: This is a FREE event, unticketed, open to all. ST MUNGO’S MIRRORBALL PARTNERS IN POETRY The Glasgow Art Club glasgowartclub.co.uk
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