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Not Entirely Beautiful by Anne Connolly Anne Connolly was born...

Fri, 10 May 2013 14:53:00 +0100

Not Entirely Beautiful by Anne Connolly

Anne Connolly was born in Northern Ireland where home and school were seminal in nourishing the love of poetry. She taught there for a couple of years before moving briefly to England and eventually settling with her family in Scotland. Her most recent work has been as an independent advocate for and with older people in long-term care. Her poems have been published by Horizon, Salt Publishing; Magma; Mslexia; Poetry Scotland; Quarrtsiluni; The Tablet and Agenda. Her pamphlet Downside Up was published by Calder Wood Press in 2008 and her collection Love-in-a-mist was published by Red Squirrel Press in 2011, reprinted in 2012. Anne currently keeps an eye on the School of Poets at the Scottish Poetry Library. She and a group of fellow members participated recently in a BBC Radio 4 Poetry programme with Ruth Padel. Regular readings with Poetrio are a well-established and fun part of Anne’s life. She reached the Final of the BBC Slam at the Edinburgh Festival in 2011, read at the Scottish Parliament in 2012 and took part in the inaugural Tricolour event at the National Library of Scotland this spring. She feels very lucky to be able to participate in such a wealth of poetry events and appreciates that the flourishing scene here is the voice, both written and heard, that embraces past, present and future in a cornucopia of NOW!

ISBN: 978-0-9576363-4-7

The poems:

Being W.B.
Preview
(Haiku)
County Antrim, 1973
A Kind of Dancing
Biabhóg Abú
Bee Division
Intermittent
Ground Control
Deserted Village
Timeshare
Grace Notes
The Top Step
The Boy Who Breaks My Sticks
Limited Edition
Mouth to Mouth
Shalt Not
A Modest Hint
Miss Quark Finalist 3113
Do You Want to Play?

STEWED RHUBARB PRESENTS... FEBURARY 17TH

Tue, 05 Feb 2013 23:43:00 +0000

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.

Lullabies to Make Your Children Cry by Lucy Ayrton Lucy writes...

Tue, 05 Feb 2013 23:24:00 +0000

Lullabies to Make Your Children Cry by Lucy Ayrton

Lucy writes performance story-poetry, lives in Oxford and works in PR. None of these things were planned. She runs poetry slams and a feminist drinking club. Last summer she performed her debut poetry show, Lullabies to Make Your Children Cry, at the Edinburgh Festival (“Brilliantly subversive” - The Scotsman, ***** - Sabotage Reviews). Once she had a cocktail that contained both tea and gin. She’s not sure she’ll ever be as happy as that again.

ISBN: 978-0-9576363-3-0

The poems:

Talking to Strangers
The Nightingale
Bonfire Juice
The China Figures
Let Me Be Lost
Lucy and the Dragon

Visa Wedding by Harry GilesBuy OnlineHarry Giles has lived on...

Fri, 09 Nov 2012 01:20:00 +0000

Visa Wedding by Harry Giles

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Harry 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
Disclaimer

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Lipstick is Always a Plus by Tracey S. Rosenberg Tracey S....

Sat, 27 Oct 2012 22:36:00 +0100

Lipstick is Always a Plus by Tracey S. Rosenberg

Tracey S. Rosenberg won a 2010-2011 New Writers Award from the Scottish Book Trust, during which she completed a full-length poetry collection, Secondary, and wrote several of the poems included in Lipstick is Always a Plus. Her debut novel, The Girl in the Bunker (Cargo Publishing), was a Scottish bestseller and selected for Scotland on Sunday’s Books of the Year. She’s a committee member at the Edinburgh-based spoken word collective Inky Fingers, with whom she helps organise open mics, writing workshops, and the occasional slam. A self-professed literary festival junkie, she’s volunteered at StAnza, Word, and the Hay Literary Festival. Originally from Chicago, she now lives permanently in Edinburgh, and in the last few years she’s travelled to Morocco, Jordan, and Easter Island. She has a tattoo of a sea turtle. You’ll probably spot it. If not, feel free to ask.

“Through varied subject matter and fresh perspective, Rosenberg’s crystalline poems confront and entertain readers with the unexpected.” - Sarah Ream, Editor of poetryinternational.org.

ISBN: 978-0-9576363-2-3

The poems:

Canyon Conversation
Couples
Perceptions of the Turing Machine
So Where Are You From?
Lovesong
The Time Lord’s Job Advertisement
Bookseller Love
Meeting a Guy Off the Internet
Genderclusterfuck
How to Drink on the First Date
Uncle Albert
For Jo, Who Was Dubious
Miracles
Takeaway

Stewed Rhubarb Presents... November 4th

Fri, 26 Oct 2012 22:46:00 +0100

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...

Fri, 26 Oct 2012 22:23:00 +0100

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

Treasure in The History of Things by Katherine...

Wed, 29 Aug 2012 00:48:00 +0100

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
Shine

Both pamphlet and album can be purchased on Bandcamp.

The Glassblower Dances by Rachel McCrum Winner of the Callum...

Wed, 29 Aug 2012 00:47:00 +0100

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