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Lovecrumbs readings

the fifth evening of poetry, fiction and non-fiction!

doors will open at 7pm and readings will kick off at 7.30, a bar with wine, beers and cake will be available so come along, cosy up and have a listen.

lovecrumbs welcomes writers:

Samuel Tongue
Anne Hay
Thomas Stewart
Elizabeth Rimmer

This will be a brilliant lineup, so do come!

Wednesday 20 March 7pm Cornerstone Café St John’s Junction of Lothian Road and Princes Street EH2 4BJ

This event has had to be rescheduled.

It will now take place on 3rd May in Blackwells Bookshop, South Bridge Edinburgh

Launch of Scotia Extremis anthology Scotia Extremis: Brian Johnstone and former FWS Makar Andy Jackson host the launch of a new anthology using poems from their web-site project two years ago. Several FWS members will be reading, including Andy Jackson, Brian Johnstone, Brian Whittingham, Stephanie Green, Elizabeth Rimmer, Jim Mackintosh.

Poets with connections with Scotland were asked to write poems on contrasting aspects of Scottish life and culture. Mine was about Celtic Connections, and was paired with Christine de Luca’s poem about the sixties television show, The White Heather Club.

On the 5th December I will be helping local poet and novelist Charlie Gracie launch his long-awaited first novel, To Live With What You Are, Published by Red Squirrel Press, at Stirling Central Library, 3 Corn Exchange Road FK8 2HX, at 6:30 pm.There will be wine, squirrel cookies, and fig rolls, for reasons which will become clear as Charlie reads from the novel, and discusses its development.  

I will also be reading from Haggards, and talking about the poems and the inspiration behind them.

Please come to hear us!

We would like to express our thanks to Stirling Library Service for extending their hospitality on this occasion.

I will be at the Callander Poetry Weekend, hosted by Sally Evans and Ian King of the Callander Bookshop (Main Strret, Callander). It will be a shortened version this year, but with all the features we have come to love.

7th September Friday evening in the Bookshop

opened by Ian King 8.30 pm
FRIDAY 8.35 pm MASS BOOK LAUNCH
Books must be published this year 2018 or since October 201arrange7, and you must supply a copy for the event. The book will be displayed and you must talk for two minutes about it. You may Not read poems from it. Any book you have written, published or had any hand in will be eligible (but only once for each book.) The Mass Book Launch books will also be displayed in the Hall on Saturday.
9.30 pm 10.30 readings: Andy Allan, Maureen Weldon, John Bolland, Morelle Smith,
Ian Blake.& Liz Mills.

SATURDAY 8th September

In Kirk Hall

Catch up with the year of poetry at the Readings:
10.15 a.m.-11.15 Readings:
Kemal Houghton, Paul Beech, Mo Blake, Angela Topping, Elspeth Brown
11.15 – 11.30 short Coffee break
11.30 -12.40 Readings: (compere Charlie Gracie)
Fred Beake, Elizabeth Rimmer, Mike Penney, Colin Will, Josephine Scott, George Colkitto, Roderick Manson
12.40 – 1.20 lunch in the Hall
1.20 – 2.30 Readings (compere Judith Taylor)
Lesley Traynor, Rachel Stooke, Mandy Macdonald, Chrys Salt, Jon Plunkett, Deborah Tyler-Bennett.
2.30 – 4.30 pm. Readings: (compere George Colkitto)
Anne B. Murray, Derek Parkes, A. C. Clarke, Wullie Purcell, Rita Bradd, John Coutts, Eveline Pye, Helen McLaren, Ian Hunter, Diana Devlin, Pauline Prior-Pitt
(4.30 – 4.45 pm short tea/coffee break)
4.45 – 6.30 Readings: (compere Kemal Houghton) Edwin Stockdale, Pauline Plummer, Angela Topping, Charlie Gracie, Katy Konrad, Chris Powici, Helen Boden, David Costello, Irene Cunninghame, Sally and Ron Williams (Lancashire Dialect)
6.30 – 7.30 Supper Party in hall
7.30 -9.30 Ceilidh (compere Ian Blake),
with Alan Gay and the Tone Poets, Judith Taylor, John Mills, Rita Bradd on harp, Morelle Smith singing/guitar, Wullie Purcell  Kemal Houghton  and other contributions from John Coutts, Pauline Prior-Pitt and Colin Will. Hall to be clear by 10 pm after which there are a few favourite pubs (e.g. the Crags.)
enquiries to sally evans 35 at gmail dot com

Sunday 9th Sept

10 a.m., at the Friendship Garden, South Church Street
The End: a read-round of one poem each from the poets present.