It’s our final event before the summer break! Join us for a fabulous culmination to our 2022/23 reading series, with poetry from David Kinloch, Rebecca Farmer and open mic readers, plus music from our house band, Dekoy. Further details below ❤️
The When & the Where:
Thursday 29th June 2023
7:45pm – 9:15pm (doors open 7:30pm)
The Waverley Bar, 3-5 St Mary’s St, Edinburgh EH1 1TA
Admission: Our standard entrance charges are £7.50 (waged) and £5 (concession). This includes one raffle ticket, which will also be your receipt of entry. For those keen to increase their chances of a raffle win, we’ve also introduced a new Golden Ticket: at £10, this covers entry plus five raffle tickets. Entry is payable by either card or cash, but it’s worth bringing the latter in case you’d like to buy a book from one of our readers.
The Poets:
DAVID KINLOCH
David Kinloch is from Glasgow and is the author of six full collections of poetry, the latest being Greengown: New and Selected Poems (Carcanet, 2022). He has been an editor, teacher and critic as well and is currently Professor emeritus of Poetry and Creative Writing at the University of Strathclyde. In 2022 he received a Cholmondeley Award for his contribution to poetry.
REBECCA FARMER
Rebecca Farmer’s most recent publication is the pamphlet A Separate Appointment published by New Walk Editions in 2022. Rebecca grew up in a large Irish family in Birmingham. She studied Drama at Manchester University and for many years worked as a teacher in London. Her husband died at the age of 42 and her focus for a long time became the care of their daughters. After she resumed her writing career her debut pamphlet Not Really won the Poetry Business Pamphlet Competition and in 2017 she completed a PhD at Goldsmiths. She has been a writer in residence at Gladstone’s Library and was awarded a Hawthornden Fellowship. Her poem Corporeal was a prize winner in The Strokestown International Poetry Prize 2019.
Signing up for the Open Mic:
We have four open mic spots each month. These 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. Or you can boost the odds of being the envy of the room and snaffling that piece of home-baked glory by purchasing one of our new Golden Tickets (further details above, under ‘The When & the Where’). The raffle also frequently boasts other no less wonderful but definitely less edible prizes, in the form of pamphlets or books.
See you there!
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