In our first event of 2023, we’re shaking things up a bit, format-wise, and are delighted to present a series of readings celebrating Re•creation: A Queer Poetry Anthology, published in 2022 by Stewed Rhubarb Press and described by Alice Tarbuck as ‘a selection of the very best queer poets at work today’ – ‘In this powerful and affecting anthology, queer experience – and queer poetics – are brought to life with complexity, vividness, beauty and formal innovation.’ Editors Éadaoín Lynch and Alycia Pirmohamed will be joined by contributing poets Andrés N. Ordorica, Kira Scott and Jinhao Xie, and there’ll be music from our house band, Dekoy. Please note that, as this event centres on Re•creation, there’s no open mic this month, and we’ll again be upstairs in The Waverley Bar on St. Mary’s Street (further details below), with a start time of 7.45pm ❤️
The When & the Where:
Thursday 26th January 2023
7.45pm – 9.15pm (doors open 7:30pm)
The Waverley Bar, 3-5 St. Mary’s Street, Edinburgh EH1 1TA
Admission: Entrance charge is £7.50 (waged) and £5 (concession). This includes one raffle ticket, which will also be your entrance receipt. We have a card machine but it’s worth bringing cash, too, in case you’d like to buy a book.
The Poets:
Éadaoín Lynch
Éadaoín Lynch is an Irish poet & researcher based in Edinburgh. Their debut poetry pamphlet Fierce Scrow launched in 2022 with Nine Pens Press. Alongside Alycia Pirmohamed, they co-edited Re·creation, A Queer Poetry Anthology, published by Stewed Rhubarb Press. Éadaoín’s work has appeared in Gutter, The North Magazine, and the Fawn Press anthology Elements, among others; it has also been shortlisted for the Jane Martin Poetry Prize and the London Magazine Poetry Prize. Find them online at www.eadaoinlynch.com and on twitter @eadaoinlynch. (Photo credit: Lou McCurdy)
ALYCIA PIRMOHAMED
Alycia Pirmohamed is the author of Another Way to Split Water, the pamphlets Hinge and Faces that Fled the Wind, and the collaborative essay, Second Memory, which was co-authored with Pratyusha. She is co-founder of the Scottish BPOC Writers Network, a co-organiser of the Ledbury Poetry Critics, and she currently teaches at the University of Cambridge. Alycia received an MFA from the University of Oregon and a PhD from the University of Edinburgh.
Andrés N. Ordorica
Andrés N. Ordorica is a queer Latinx writer based in Edinburgh. His writing attempts to map the journey of his diasporic experience and unpack what it means to be from ni de aquí, ni de allá. His debut poetry collection, At Least This I Know, is published with 404 Ink.
KIRA SCOTT
Kira Scott is a poet and writer from East Lothian, whose work has previously appeared in The Common Breath’s The Middle of a Sentence, respective poetry anthologies Heather and Re•creation and Porridge Magazine online. Her work often explores the queer, working-class experience in rural and contemporary Scottish settings and her manuscript proposal, doing just that, was shortlisted for the Writers’ & Artists’ 2021 Working-Class Writers’ Prize.
Jinhao Xie
Jinhao Xie is a Barbican Young Poet and a member of the Southbank Centre New Poets Collective. Their work is in POETRY, Poetry Review, Harana, Bath Magg, Gutter Magazine, and anthologies, including Articulations for Keeping the Light In, Slam! You’re Gonna Wanna Hear This edited by Nikita Gill, Instagram Poems for Every Day by National Poetry Library, and Re.Creation. They are the inaugural champion of Asia House Poetry slam 2018. They are interested in nature, the mundane, the interpersonal, and selfhood. (Photo credit: Christy Ku)
Signing up for the Open Mic:
We usually have four open mic spots each month, which are booked in advance. To request an open mic spot in the future please email us at shorepoetsedinburgh @ gmail.com (remove the spaces).
The Raffle:
Entry includes a raffle ticket; additional tickets are also available to buy when you arrive, should you wish to increase your chances of winning this month’s scrummy lemon cake! Arts funding is a precarious business and our lemon cake raffle helps keep the Shore Poets financially viable. We’re very grateful to all our supporters who have contributed to our funds over the years in this way.
Look forward to seeing you there!
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