It’s March! It’s spring! Aye, alright – so it doesn’t much look like it & we’re all still wearing our woollies. But use yez imaginations! Or if your imagination’s failing you, or even if it isn’t, come and join us in The Waverley for our March event, where spring will be in the air even if it’s not outside – with poetry from Tom Pow and open mic readers, a cheeky wee dram of creative nonfiction from Miriam Gamble, & music from The Self-Righteous Brothers. Further details below 🐰🐝🌿
The When & the Where:
Thursday 28th March 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 Readers:
TOM POW
Tom Pow was born in Edinburgh in 1950. He has published many collections, including In The Becoming, New and Selected Poems (Polygon, 2009). Dear Alice – Narratives of Madness (Salt) won the 2009 SMIT Poetry Book of the Year. His latest publications are the collection Naranjas (Galileo, 2021) and the pamphlet Svetlana’s Dance (Mariscat, 2022). He has also written two travel books and several books for children. He was Creative Director of A Year of Conversation in 2019. The Village and The Road (Tom Pow and The Galloway Agreement), based on his book, In Another World – Among Europe’s Dying Villages (Polygon, 2012), was part of the Made in Scotland programme at the Fringe in 2022 and was invited to Japan in 2023. He lives in Dumfries.
MIRIAM GAMBLE
Miriam Gamble has published three books of poems with Bloodaxe Books: The Squirrels Are Dead (2010), Pirate Music (2014) and What Planet (2019). What Planet won the 2020 Pigott Poetry Prize; Miriam has also received the Somerset Maugham Award (for The Squirrels Are Dead), an Eric Gregory Award, the Vincent Buckley Poetry Prize and the Ireland Chair of Poetry Bursary Award. Originally from Belfast, she’s lived in Scotland since 2010 and is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Edinburgh. Little Acts of Vigilance, her first essay collection, will be published by The Lifeboat in April 2024.
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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