We have a new Scots Makar!
Poet and playwright, Liz Lochhead, has been announced as Scotland’s new Makar. The announcement was made by the First Minister Alex Salmond and former First Ministers Lord McConnell and Henry McLeish....
View ArticleEdinburgh bloggers – Juliet Wilson
We have discovered that there are actually two Juliet Wilsons in Edinburgh and both of them blog. So don’t get confused! We talked to this Juliet Wilson…the one who is interested in education and...
View ArticleForest Cafe’s Literary Opus
As we type, Edinburgh’s Inky Fingers writing group are holding a 36 hour writing marathon in The Forest Cafe as their mini literary festival comes to a close. The event, They Shoot Writers, Don’t...
View ArticleThe West Port Book Festival – Emily Dodd
Emily Dodd is an Edinburgh poet and published author who is quietly gaining an appreciative following in the capital and beyond. She is appearing on Thursday 13 October 2011 at The West Port Book...
View ArticleAudio – Interview with Peggy Hughes of West Port Book Festival
The West Port Book Festival is running for the fourth year this weekend until Sunday 16 October 2011. The programme runs all afternoon and into the evening. Tickets can be obtained from Peter Bell...
View ArticleWest Port Book Festival – You have been bugged…
by Sonja Bettina Klein Everyone has been on a bus at least once in their lives wondering what the person sitting behind was talking about on the phone. It is in the inquisitive nature of human beings...
View ArticleYoung Edinburgh Writers – A Room With Our View
If you go down to the Central Library today you will get a nice surprise on the mezzanine floor. They have installed a bed. No it’s not for you to lie down and contemplate your upcoming exams. The bed...
View ArticleEdinburgh Napier students introduce poetry slam at the Book Festival
Three Edinburgh Napier students are coming to the Book Festival on Wednesday to try and popularise their poetry. The new event which they are launching is called Impro Slam and will demand quick...
View ArticleScottish Poetry Library airs new poets
Edinburgh Reporter Radio popped along to the Scottish Poetry Library to find out about a series of free, open-air events that the Library is holding during August. The Courtyard Readings are hosted by...
View ArticleEdinburgh International Book Festival – William Letford
William Letford has worked as a roofer, on and off, since he was fifteen years old. When his poetry appeared in Carcanet’s New Poetries V anthology last year, he won widespread acclaim. His charismatic...
View ArticlePerformance Poetry on the Prom at Portobello
Portobello Poets present THE PORTOBELLO POETRY CIRCUS A night of performance poetry on the Prom! Featuring The Sensational Slam Champion CARLY BROWN plus COLIN McGUIRE The Human Cannonball of Spoken...
View ArticleWhat’s on in Edinburgh this week
MONDAY 30 JUNE 2014 Continuing: GENERATION: 25 Years of Contemporary Art in Scotland. Venues include the Scottish Gallery of Modern Art One, Scottish National Gallery, Scottish National Portrait...
View ArticleEdinburgh Festival Fringe – Baba Brinkman – The Groover From Vancouver With...
A Rap Guide To Religion/The Rap Canterbury Tales/Off The Top With Canadian, Baba Brinkman, about to Fringe premiere his deity defying show A Rap Guide To Religion, it may be apposite to recall...
View ArticleWhat’s on in Edinburgh this week
MONDAY 18TH AUGUST 2014 Edinburgh Book Fringe 2014: John Menaghan and Andy Jackson. Prize-winning poet and playwright John Menaghan has published four books with Salmon Poetry (Ireland); four of his...
View ArticleMonday in Edinburgh – what’s on today
Blackwell’s Edinburgh presents The Monthly Book Quiz: if you know your Waugh from your Peace and your Meyer from your Heyer, try this monthly quiz. Teams of up to five can enter. 6-7.15pm, Caffe Nero,...
View ArticleWhat’s On in Edinburgh this week
MONDAY 6TH OCTOBER 2014 Mrs Mash the Storytelling Cook: stories, songs and participative fun for Portobello’s youngest residents. 10.30-11am, The Skylark, 241-243 Portobello High Street. Toddler Time:...
View ArticleThursday in Edinburgh – What’s On Today
GENERATION DJ Set: A La Fu. A La Fu has performed at Glastonbury, Brixton Academy, Trans Musicales, Pukkelpop and NYC’s Knitting Factory. He will be offering an improvised response to the GENERATION...
View ArticleBook Week Scotland 2014 – a celebration of books and reading
‘A love of reading……at its most powerful, transforms lives’ (Sophie Moxon, Acting Director, Scottish Book Trust) For all the gloom and doom we hear about parents who never read to their children,...
View ArticleWhat’s On in Edinburgh this week
MONDAY 13TH OCTOBER 2014 The Key Material is Time: Art and Music in Glasgow since the 1970s. Writer, curator and lecturer Dr Sarah Lowndes traces the development of Glasgow’s unique and largely...
View ArticleThursday in Edinburgh – What’s On Today
Gaelic Rhymetime! Gaelic songs and rhymes for children and babies. 10.30am, Leith Library, 28-30 Ferry Road. (Next meeting 30th October at Blackhall Library, 56 Hillhouse Rd.) Live Music Now: Morag...
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