Shore Poets @ The Waverley are back, with a fabulous line-up of readings and music for 2023/24! Join us for our first event of the new season on September 28th, with poetry from Michael Pedersen, Taylor Strickland and open mic readers, plus music from our house band, Dekoy. Further details below ❤️
The When & the Where:
Thursday 28th September 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 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 so as not to miss the chance to buy a book from one of our readers.
The Poets:
MICHAEL PEDERSEN
Michael Pedersen is a Scottish poet and author, and the newly appointed Writer in Residence at The University of Edinburgh. His acclaimed prose debut, Boy Friends, was published by Faber & Faber in 2022 and was a Sunday Times Critics Choice. He’s unfurled three collections of poetry, the most recent being The Cat Prince & Other Poems (Little Brown, 2023) — the title poem of which is currently shortlisted for the Forward Prizes for Poetry. Pedersen has won a Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship and the John Mather’s Trust Rising Star of Literature Award. His words have been published in the likes of The Poetry Review, New Statesman and The Guardian, and his work has attracted praise from voices as diverse as: Stephen Fry, Kae Tempest, Irvine Welsh, Maggie Smith, Sara Pascoe, Shirley Manson and Jackie Kay.
TAYLOR STRICKLAND
Taylor Strickland is the author of Commonplace Book, and Dastram/Delirium, a PBS Translation Choice. His work has appeared in New Statesman, TLS, The Poetry Review, Gutter, and elsewhere. He lives in Glasgow with his wife, Lauren.
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 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!
Shore Poets 
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