STEWED RHUBARB PRESENTS… FEBURARY 17TH
Stewed Rhubarb presents… readings and pamphlets from
HARRY GILES - Visa Wedding,
TRACEY S. ROSENBERG - Lipstick is Always a Plus,
& LUCY AYRTON - Lullabies to Make Your Children Cry.
Entry to the Jazz Bar (1a Chambers Street, Edinburgh EH1 1HR) is £3 and includes live jazz until late. :-) The show is 4pm to 6pm on February the 17th, 2013.
Contrary to popular belief, newspaper can be fashioned into a perfectly good poncho if you know how to go about it.
![Visa Wedding by Harry GilesBuy OnlineHarry Giles has lived on four islands, each larger than the last. He co-founded Inky Fingers, the Edinburgh-based spoken word organisation, in October 2010. He is a performance poet, theatre director, and freelance workshop facilitator, and has given feature performances at nights including Chill Pill, JibbaJabba and Last Monday at Rio, won multiple slams including the UK Student Slam (2008), the BBC Scotland Slam (2009), the Glasgow Slam (2010), and been published in journals including Magma, PANK and Drey.
Reviews for Visa Wedding:
Donald Gardner, Sabotage:
“Giles seems to veer between an intellectual, formal severity and a desire to celebrate, a naughtiness that charms. […] His work has a technical maturity.”
The poems:
On Ceremony
Visa Wedding #1
Waffle House Waiter
America, Again
Curriculum
An Experiment Was Carried Out
Sermon
Personal
2 Days in Paris
Piercings
Hidden Track
Forest
Vows
Honeymoon
The Usual
Leith Walk
Visa Wedding #2
Reception
Brave
DisclaimerBuy Online](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_md7521yAaI1rf13gfo1_500.jpg)
Stewed Rhubarb Presents... November 4th
Stewed Rhubarb presents… readings and pamphlets from
Reigning BBC Slam Champion JENNY LINDSAY - The Eejit Pit,
KATHERINE MCMAHON - Treasure In The History Of Things,
& RACHEL MCCRUM - The Glassblower Dances;
Announcements (assorted),
Alcohol (rhubarb flavoured),
And jazz (of course).
Entry to the Jazz Bar (1a Chambers Street, Edinburgh EH1 1HR) is £3 and includes live jazz until late. :-) The show is 4pm to 6pm on November the 4th, 2012.
Contrary to popular belief, there will not be a raffle. Not even a little one.
![The Eejit Pit by Jenny Lindsay
Jenny Lindsay is a writer, poet and spoken word promoter who lives in Edinburgh. She started performing poetry in 2002 aged 20, and since then has appeared at a number of festivals and events including the Cheltenham Literature Festival, Latitude, Edinburgh International Book Festival and Stanza. She has showcased the best in UK spoken word through The Big Word (2002 - 2008), Is This Poetry? (2010), and is one half of the duo behind Edinburgh’s newest literary-themed cabaret Rally & Broad. Her first full collection was The Things You Leave Behind (Red Squirrel Press, 2011). “Full of hope, humanity and humour…She writes defiantly, eloquently and inspiringly.” (Andrew Eaton, The Scotsman)
ISBN: 978-0-9576363-1-6
Reviews for The Eejit Pit
Elizabeth Rimmer, The Scottish Review of Books:
“[Jenny Lindsay is] justly renowned as a virtuoso performance poet. […] The Eejit Pit is a snapshot of an accomplished performer, but also a work of art in its own right.”
Sally Evans, Poetry Scotland Reviews:
“[These are] poems of confidence and substance. She can be expansive or minimal, cheerful and funny, or less cheerful but still funny.”
Harry Giles, Sidekick Books:
“Whether it’s in sarcastically loving odes like Edinburgh or bitter zeitgeist narratives like Tick, the voice that sounds clearly is of 21st century anger, scunnered by self-consciousness and lightened by cautious hope. […] The Eejit Pit is a rich and complex way marker of our journey through […] the continuing debates between performance poets and page poets.”
The poems:
Edinburgh
The Things You Leave Behind
Intimacy
Taking Back the Night
I Promise I Will Not Fall in Love With You
Tick
Mirrors
The Truth
The Eejit Pit](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mcirff28US1rf13gfo1_500.jpg)
![Treasure in The History of Things by Katherine McMahon
Katherine McMahon is a performance poet and spoken word promoter. She co-organises of Inky Fingers, a collective which runs open mics, workshops, slams and other wordy events. She has also organised events with No Rhyme No Reason, including a spoken word programme for the National Museum of Scotland’s Museum Late event, and OUT:SPOKEN - a showcase of Scottish queer performance poetry. She has won several slams herself, and is a regular on the Edinburgh scene, performing across the city as well as further afield. She also once won a Blue Peter badge for a poem (aged 9). Treasure in the History of Things is her first pamphlet, and is paired with a CD album of her collaboration with musician and sound designer Fiona Keenan.
Reviews for Treasure in The History of Things
Elizabeth Rimmer, The Scottish Review of Books:
“[Katherine McMahon is] a mellifluous performer. [… Treasure in The History of Things contains] some very beautiful and thoughtful pieces.”
Dana Bubulj, Sabotage:
“McMahon manage[s] to engage with familiar imagery without it becoming trite, and with a self-awareness coupled with wonder at nature that makes it rather charming. […] The poems stay away from the realms of the overdone sublime and stay fresh.”
The poems:
Blackberries
Duskfall
Aloud
Jetsam
Gold
Storm
Haar
Afforestation
Weather Report
Nautical Almanac
Labyrinth
ShineBoth pamphlet and album can be purchased on Bandcamp.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9hos408Dm1rf13gfo1_500.jpg)
![The Glassblower Dances by Rachel McCrum
Winner of the Callum Macdonald Memorial Award 2013.
Rachel McCrum has been working as a performance poet in Edinburgh since 2010. She is one half of Rally & Broad, the newest literary cabaret extravaganza to emerge from Edinburgh. She was a finalist at the 2012 BBC Edinburgh Festival Poetry Slam and winner of the 2012 International Women’s Day Slam. She co-organises Inky Fingers, the Edinburgh based spoken word collective, and has performed across Scotland with Hello Poetry, Blind Poetics, the Golden Hour and at Wickerman Festival. The Glassblower Dances is her first pamphlet.
ISBN: 978-0-9576363-0-9
Reviews for The Glassblower Dances
Elizabeth Rimmer, The Scottish Review of Books:
[Rachel McCrum] combines the linear and leisurely flow of the performer with the feel for structure and pattern of a page poet, and a complexity of thought which does credit to both. […] A useful taster for what I hope will soon be a full collection of poetry.”
Sally Evans, Poetry Scotland Reviews:
“The sense that this is the perfect way to say something is never far off as you read her poems.”
The poems:
Stewed Rhubarb
Broad
Peg
A Quest for Kisses
On Lapicide Street
Sundrunkroadtrip
Bulbs
Are The Kids Alright?
Fuel
Last Night Ashore
Dirtied Pints
Zippo Endings
The Glassblower Dances
Drippings](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9hoqzFZd11rf13gfo1_500.jpg)
