Our final Shore Poets event of the season! Please come along for what we are unofficially calling The Night Of Two Traceys. (Also a Ross and a Frank, and a musical Esther.) Before we get started, a brief announcement: we have a new mailing list! We will be retiring the old one, which is creakyContinue reading Shore Poets JUNE: Tracey Herd, Ross Donlon, Frank Glynn, Tracey S. Rosenberg + Esther Swift
Shore Poets MAY: Liz Lochhead, Michael Thomas Hough, Ian McDonough + The Madrigal Club
May is here! Cold winds and daffodils. Sunday 29th May 2016 7pm (doors open 630pm) Oh! Outhouse, 12a Broughton Street Lane, Edinburgh, EH1 3LY Admission: £5 (concessions £3) Please be there in plenty of time to get a seat. Unfortunately, fire regulations mean we have to turn people away if the room becomes overcrowded. MAINContinue reading Shore Poets MAY: Liz Lochhead, Michael Thomas Hough, Ian McDonough + The Madrigal Club
Shore Poets APRIL: Open Night, Claire Askew + Arlen
It’s the return of our open night! Sunday 24th April 2016 7pm (doors open 630pm) Oh! Outhouse, 12a Broughton Street Lane, Edinburgh, EH1 3LY Admission: £5 (concessions £3) OPEN NIGHT This is when we open the stage to local (and not-so-local) poets. Our list is currently full, but you can check with us on theContinue reading Shore Poets APRIL: Open Night, Claire Askew + Arlen
Shore Poets FEBRUARY: Maoilios Caimbeul, Jane Yolen, Marjorie Lotfi Gill + Poetics (the Edinburgh Mandolin and Guitar Orchestra) + Vicki Feaver and MOMA!
Whew! We’re breathless just from reading that header, because we have a bumper Shore Poets night coming up at the end of February. First, the basic details: Sunday 28th February 2016 7pm (doors open 630pm) Oh! Outhouse, 12a Broughton Street Lane, Edinburgh, EH1 3LY Admission: £5 (concessions £3) Our first event in this venue wasContinue reading Shore Poets FEBRUARY: Maoilios Caimbeul, Jane Yolen, Marjorie Lotfi Gill + Poetics (the Edinburgh Mandolin and Guitar Orchestra) + Vicki Feaver and MOMA!
Shore Poets JANUARY: The Quiet Slam! + Mother Superior and the Wherewithals
Sunday 31st January 2016 7pm (doors open 630pm) Oh! Outhouse, 12a Broughton Street Lane, Edinburgh, EH1 3LY Admission: £5 (concessions £3) NEW TIME AND NEW LOCATION We’re starting at 7pm, which we hope will make life easier for those who travel long distances to join us and those who wish not to go home veryContinue reading Shore Poets JANUARY: The Quiet Slam! + Mother Superior and the Wherewithals
Shore Poets NOVEMBER: Tawona Sithole, Hamish Whyte, Flora Sinclair + Tuesday Rose McDonough
Sunday 29th November 2015 7pm (doors open 630pm) Clouds and Soil, 4 Picardy Place, Edinburgh, EH1 3JT Admission: £5 (concessions £3) NEW TIME AND NEW LOCATION Our November event is earlier – starting at 7pm, which we hope will make life easier for those who travel long distances to join us and those who wishContinue reading Shore Poets NOVEMBER: Tawona Sithole, Hamish Whyte, Flora Sinclair + Tuesday Rose McDonough
Shore Poets OCTOBER: update, and events to the end of the year
So much information to pass on that it all deserved a separate blogpost. Below, you’ll find information about the memorial event for Tessa Ransford. We also regret the recent passing of Elizabeth Burns; as she was awarded the Mark Ogle Memorial Award in 2009, we will be incorporating a memorial for her in the MOMAContinue reading Shore Poets OCTOBER: update, and events to the end of the year
Shore Poets OCTOBER: Liz Berry, Martin MacIntyre, Louise Peterkin + Sheena Jardine
SHORE POETS: October 2015 Sunday 25th October 2015, 7.45 pm to 10.00pm (doors open 7.15pm) Henderson’s at St John’s, St John’s Church, corner of Lothian Road and Princes Street, Edinburgh Admission: £5 (concessions £3) DON’T FORGET THE CLOCKS GO BACK THIS WEEKEND. Obviously all our fancy gadgets tell us this, but just in case youContinue reading Shore Poets OCTOBER: Liz Berry, Martin MacIntyre, Louise Peterkin + Sheena Jardine
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