Unsure what to do with the leap year gift of that extra day? Like poetry and music in a convivial setting? Partial (I mean, who isn’t?) to lemon cake? Well, we’ve got your evening sorted, then! Our Feb event boasts a cracking line-up, so do join us upstairs in The Waverley – with poetry from Marjorie Lotfi, Alice Wickenden and open mic readers, plus music from house band Dekoy. Further details below 💖
The When & the Where:
Thursday 29th February 2024
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:
MARJORIE LOTFI
Marjorie Lotfi is the author of The Wrong Person to Ask (Bloodaxe Books, 2023), a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation. The winner of the inaugural James Berry Prize, she’s regularly commissioned to write new work, most recently The World May Be the Same with the writer Hannah Lavery (Rhubarb Press, 2023), about the experiences of people of colour in Scotland (supported by The Edwin Morgan Trust), and Sister (Stellar Quines, 2023) about the Women, Life, Freedom movement in Iran.
Marjorie is a Co-Founder and Director of the charity Open Book, which runs over 1,200 shared reading and creative writing workshops each year across Scotland, and the current Co-Chair of the Board of Trustees for StAnza, Scotland’s International Poetry Festival.
ALICE WICKENDEN
Alice Wickenden (she/her) is a writer and precarious teacher of Renaissance literature. She is the author of THRIFTWOOD (Broken Sleep Books), a memoir about first loves, camping, and the adolescent body, and a poetry pamphlet called how to decode your orange-peel fortunes (Nine Pens Press).Her current work is interested in the question of how we reconcile the impossible:gig/catharsis, a pamphlet about the impact of sexual assault in the pop-punk scene and what we do when the music we love is made unwelcoming, is forthcoming with Broken Sleep. In her spare time, she volunteers with Abortion Support Network.
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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