A Concert of Poetry and Music: A reading of Bashabi Fraser's epic poem, 'From the Ganga to the Tay' (Edinburgh: Luath Press, 2009), by Chrys Salt and Donald Smith, accompanied by Michael Braudy on the violin, in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Tuesday 9 August 2011 at 7.00pm - Doors open at 6.30pm
Gorgie Dalry Parish Church
190-192 Gorgie Road
Edinburgh
EH11 2NX
Organised by Word Power Books and sponsored by Peace Arts, Glasgow
Do feel free to bring friends and family as all are welcome!
Admission Free! Suggested donation of £5.00 to cover costs!
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As part of the Festival of Peace and Spirituality at St John’s Church, West End, Edinburgh, at 2 pm on August 9th, 11th, 16th, 18th, 23rd, 25th.
Readings from the Golden Thread of Poetry, feature several PEN members, including Patricia Ace, Iyad Hayatleh, Tessa Ransford, Hazel Buchan Cameron, Morelle Smith, Alexander Hutchison etc.
The readings take place in the hall/café next to the church, Full details at
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Tuesday 16th August 2011 3 – 4.30 pm
GREY HEN
PRESS
PRESENTS
A reading at Blackwell’s Bookshop
53-62 South Bridge Edinburgh EH1 1YS
Tuesday 16th August 2011
3 – 4.30 pm
Marianne Burton, A C Clarke,
Margaret Christie, Julia Deakin, Angela Kirby,
Wendy Klein, Eleanor Livingstone and Rosemary McLeish.
Seriously good poetry…the fruit of long-life experience – brave writing, full of love and subversive wit and lyricism. R V Bailey (re Cracking On)
‘Nothing mimsy about these poems by older women. Fierce, funny, disturbing and fairly vicious. Lovely’. Michele Hanson (re A Twist of Malice)
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Thursday, August 18th at 10.15 - 11.15am in the Spiegeltent at Edinburgh Book Festival in Charlotte Square.
Michael Longley, one of the Irish masters of lyric poetry will be reading from his new book A Hundred Doors (Cape)
Then at 1.00 - 2.00pm as part of the Edinburgh Book Fringe, at Word Power Books, 43-45 West Nicholson Street, combining Scottish and international themes, and featuring Peter McCarey, Sophie Cooke and Alexander Hutchison.
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