CAESURA #19
This event on 13th December 2013 at 19:00 has past.
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THIS MONTH we've got a prolific writer, land-artist and explorer of forms, an Edwin Morgan Prize-winning poet, one of Scotland's foremost innovative poet-editor-publishers and a performance artist and writer with a penchant for the lupine.
That is: Gerry Loose, Jane McKie, Colin Herd and MacGillivray.
WHAT IS IT? Bespoke spoken word performances at Edinburgh's monthly night of racketeers and raconteurs, experiments and experience, synapses and sounds. Avante-jive for the masses.
Gerry Loose
Jane McKie
Colin Herd
MacGillivray
GERRY LOOSE
Gerry Loose is a poet, writer (and land-artist) who works primarily with subjects from the natural world, as well as the world of geo-politics. His work is often to be found inscribed on wood and stone in natural landscapes, Parks and Botanic Gardens as well as on the page.
Among his most recent publications are Printed on Water, New and Selected Poems (Shearsman Books) and that person himself. His awards include: Creative Scotland Award, Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship, Kooneen Säätiö Award, and Hermann Kesten Award.
- www.gerryloose.com
JANE McKIE
Jane McKie, originally from West Sussex, lives in Linlithgow, West Lothian. She has written two collections of poetry: Morocco Rococo (Cinnamon Press), won the Sundial/Scottish Arts Council award for best first book of 2007, andWhen the Sun Turns Green (Polygon, 2009). In 2011 McKie won the inaugural Edwin Morgan poetry prize. She runs a small press, Knucker Press, that encourages collaboration between artists and poets, and currently teaches on the MSc in Creative Writing at the University of Edinburgh. The pamphlet Garden of Bedsteads was published by Mariscat Press in 2011.
COLIN HERD
Colin Herd's first full length collection of poems 'too ok' was published by BlazeVOX in 2011 and a second is coming out from Knives, Forks and Spoons very soon. Reviews and writing about books and art have been published in Aesthetica, 3:am, PN Review and The Independent, among other places. With Reuben Sutton, he co-runs The Sutton Gallery on Dundas St.
- www.colinherd.com
MacGILLIVRAY
MacGillivray has walked in a straight line with a dead wolf on her shoulders through the back streets of Vegas into the Nevada desert, eaten broken chandelier glass in a derelict East German shopping mall, headbanged in gold medieval stocks in Birmingham allotments, burnt on a sunbed wearing conquistador armour in Edinburgh's underground city, breast-fed a Highland swan in Oxford and regurgitated red roses in Greenland. She remains chief of her clan.
- www.macgillivray.org.uk
Entry: Free
Time: 7:00pm
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