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An evening of poetry readings with Richard Price, Peter McCarey, David Kinloch and Alexander Hutchison in Edinburgh, Scotland
An evening of poetry readings with Richard Price , Peter McCarey, David Kinloch and Alexander Hutchison in Edinburgh, Scotland
Friday 9 October 2009 at 7.00pm
Venue:
Word Power Books
43-45 West Nicolson Street
Edinburgh
EH8 9DB
Scotland
Admission Free! Donations welcome!
All Welcome!
RICHARD PRICE (born 1966) is a contemporary Scottish poet. His books include Lucky Day (Carcanet Press, 2005), Earliest Spring Yet (Landfill, 2006), Greenfields (Carcanet Press, 2007), and the artist's book little but often, with Ronald King (Circle Press, 2007). In the 1990s he co-edited the poetry magazines Gairfish (with W. N. Herbert), Verse (with Robert Crawford, Henry Hart, David Kinloch, and others) and Southfields (with Raymond Friel). At this time he also ran the poetry publisher Vennel Press with Leona Medlin, publishing books by W.N. Herbert, Elizabeth James, David Kinloch, Peter McCarey, Medlin and Price themselves, and others. He was one of the group associated with Informationist poetry, coining the phrase. He is a lyrical writer and has collaborated with musicians as a vocalist in the band Mirabeau. He currently edits the magazine Painted, spoken. He is Head of Modern British Collections at the British Library, London.
PETER MCCAREY was born Paisley and brought up in Glasgow. After studying, writing and freelancing in various parts of Europe, he moved to Geneva in 1988, where he is now the Head of Language Services at the World Health Organization and an occasional performer with Roaratorio. He has written a dozen books, and has been included in anthologies published in various countries. He has been working on the website of the Syllabary, (www.thesyllabary.com) a mammoth poem, since the mid-1990s. A selection of his work is forthcoming from Carcanet in 2011.
DAVID KINLOCH (b. 1959) Born in Glasgow in 1959, David Kinloch was educated at the universities of Glasgow and Oxford. For many years a teacher of French language and literature, he now teaches creative writing and Scottish literature at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. He was for many years one of the editors of the influential magazine Verse. The author of four volumes of poetry to date, Dustie-Fute (1992), Paris-Forfar (1994), Un Tour d’Ecosse (Carcanet, 2001) and In My Father’s House (Carcanet, 2005), Kinloch has also contributed to numerous anthologies, including Dream State: The New Scottish Poets, edited by D. O’Rourke in 1994, Scottish Creative Writing: Working with Words, edited by V. Thornton in 1995, Gay Love Poetry, edited by N. Powell in 1997, and 20th Century Scottish Poems, edited by D. Dunn in 2000. A recipient of a Robert Louis Stevenson Memorial Award in 2004, Kinloch has also held a Scottish Arts Council Writer’s Bursary. He is also known for his critical essays, reviews and translations.
ALEXANDER HUTCHISON was born in Buckie, and has worked mostly as a university teacher, including a lengthy period in Canada and the USA. He is an occasional translator into Scots and English, and (more readily now) a singer of traditional songs. His first collection, Deep-Tap Tree, published by the University of Massachusetts Press (1978), is still in print. That was followed by The Moon Calf (Galliard, 1990), and two pamphlets from Akros: Epitaph for a Butcher (1997) and Sparks in the Dark (2002). Most recently Scales Dog : New and selected poems appeared from Salt in 2007, and this came quick on the heels of Carbon Atom (Link-light, 2006). "Epistle from Pevkos," the final work in Carbon Atom has been issued separately as a pamphlet from Link-light (2009), and will be launched in Edinburgh at this Word Power reading. The piece was written for the poet Gael Turnbull, who died in the summer of 2004. Gael was a friend and inspiration to many – and is still sorely missed.
Friday 9 October 2009 at 7.00pm
Venue:
Word Power Books
43-45 West Nicolson Street
Edinburgh
EH8 9DB
Scotland
Admission Free! Donations welcome!
All Welcome!
RICHARD PRICE (born 1966) is a contemporary Scottish poet. His books include Lucky Day (Carcanet Press, 2005), Earliest Spring Yet (Landfill, 2006), Greenfields (Carcanet Press, 2007), and the artist's book little but often, with Ronald King (Circle Press, 2007). In the 1990s he co-edited the poetry magazines Gairfish (with W. N. Herbert), Verse (with Robert Crawford, Henry Hart, David Kinloch, and others) and Southfields (with Raymond Friel). At this time he also ran the poetry publisher Vennel Press with Leona Medlin, publishing books by W.N. Herbert, Elizabeth James, David Kinloch, Peter McCarey, Medlin and Price themselves, and others. He was one of the group associated with Informationist poetry, coining the phrase. He is a lyrical writer and has collaborated with musicians as a vocalist in the band Mirabeau. He currently edits the magazine Painted, spoken. He is Head of Modern British Collections at the British Library, London.
PETER MCCAREY was born Paisley and brought up in Glasgow. After studying, writing and freelancing in various parts of Europe, he moved to Geneva in 1988, where he is now the Head of Language Services at the World Health Organization and an occasional performer with Roaratorio. He has written a dozen books, and has been included in anthologies published in various countries. He has been working on the website of the Syllabary, (www.thesyllabary.com) a mammoth poem, since the mid-1990s. A selection of his work is forthcoming from Carcanet in 2011.
DAVID KINLOCH (b. 1959) Born in Glasgow in 1959, David Kinloch was educated at the universities of Glasgow and Oxford. For many years a teacher of French language and literature, he now teaches creative writing and Scottish literature at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. He was for many years one of the editors of the influential magazine Verse. The author of four volumes of poetry to date, Dustie-Fute (1992), Paris-Forfar (1994), Un Tour d’Ecosse (Carcanet, 2001) and In My Father’s House (Carcanet, 2005), Kinloch has also contributed to numerous anthologies, including Dream State: The New Scottish Poets, edited by D. O’Rourke in 1994, Scottish Creative Writing: Working with Words, edited by V. Thornton in 1995, Gay Love Poetry, edited by N. Powell in 1997, and 20th Century Scottish Poems, edited by D. Dunn in 2000. A recipient of a Robert Louis Stevenson Memorial Award in 2004, Kinloch has also held a Scottish Arts Council Writer’s Bursary. He is also known for his critical essays, reviews and translations.
ALEXANDER HUTCHISON was born in Buckie, and has worked mostly as a university teacher, including a lengthy period in Canada and the USA. He is an occasional translator into Scots and English, and (more readily now) a singer of traditional songs. His first collection, Deep-Tap Tree, published by the University of Massachusetts Press (1978), is still in print. That was followed by The Moon Calf (Galliard, 1990), and two pamphlets from Akros: Epitaph for a Butcher (1997) and Sparks in the Dark (2002). Most recently Scales Dog : New and selected poems appeared from Salt in 2007, and this came quick on the heels of Carbon Atom (Link-light, 2006). "Epistle from Pevkos," the final work in Carbon Atom has been issued separately as a pamphlet from Link-light (2009), and will be launched in Edinburgh at this Word Power reading. The piece was written for the poet Gael Turnbull, who died in the summer of 2004. Gael was a friend and inspiration to many – and is still sorely missed.
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