It’s our last event of 2023! While we mayn’t be able to promise gluhwein and stollen on site, we do have a lovely full-bar venue, a delicious lemon drizzle cake to give away, and, of course, a packed menu of food for the soul – with poetry from Rosa Campbell, Carl Alexandersson and open mic readers, and music from The Self-Righteous Brothers. Further details below ⛄❄️
The When & the Where:
Thursday 30th November 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:
ROSA CAMPBELL
Rosa Campbell lives in Leith, and is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of St Andrews. Her poetry has appeared in various places, including Oxford Poetry, fourteen poems, Perverse, Ambit, Gutter and SPAM. Her first book, Pothos, a lyric essay/memoir about grief and houseplants, was published in 2021 by Broken Sleep Books, and she is the editor of The Miraculous Season: The Selected Poems of V.R. ‘Bunny’ Lang, forthcoming with Carcanet in February 2024.
CARL ALEXANDERSSON
Carl Alexandersson (he/him) is a queer spoken word poet and writer, based in Glasgow, hailing from Småland, Sweden. He was selected for the BBC Words First programme in 2021, Highly Commended for the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award 2022, and a runner-up for the Grierson Verse Prize 2022. His debut poetry pamphlet Förgätmigej // Forget-me-not was published by Stewed Rhubarb Press in July 2023.
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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