St Mungo's Mirrorball

St Mungo's Mirrorball: Tom Pow, Alan Riach & Alexander Hutchison

Tom Pow's Dear Alice – Narratives of Madness won the poetry category in the Scottish Investment Trust's Scottish Book of the Year Awards for 2009. In The Becoming – New and Selected Poems was published last summer. In 2007 he received a Creative Scotland Award for a project exploring dying villages in Europe. He is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow in Dumfries.

Alan Riach is the Professor of Scottish Literature at Glasgow University and currently the President of the Association for Scottish Literary Studies. He is the general editor of the Collected Works of Hugh MacDiarmid (Carcanet), the author of Representing Scotland in Literature, Popular Culture and Iconography (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005) and co-author with Alexander Moffat of Arts of Resistance: Poets, Portraits and Landscapes of Modern Scotland (Luath Press, 2008), described by the Times Literary Supplement as ‘a landmark book'. He has published five books of poetry, including This Folding Map , First & Last Songs and Clearances. He will be reading from his new collection Homecoming.

Alexander Hutchison published Scales Dog: New and selected poems from Salt in 2007. This followed Carbon Atom (Link-light) in 2006. 'Epistle from Pevkos', which was the final work in Carbon Atom has now been issued separately as a pamphlet from Link-light, to be launched in Glasgow at this Mirrorball 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.

Entry: Free

Time: 7:00pm