Tag: Poetry

Poetry – Upcoming Events – ‘Salt & Soil’ etc

By Rita Bradd

 

May 2018

  • 10 May – Craigmillar Thistle Scribblers Anthology Launch

April 2018

  • 29 April – Vibrant Musselburgh

March 2018

  • Blackwell’s Bookshop stocks ‘Salt & Soil’

February 2018

  • 17 February – World Community Arts Day, Craigmillar Library, Edinburgh
  • 13 February – Vespers 15, 7.30pm, Serenity Cafe, Edinburgh
  • 03 February – Platform Poetry at Ladybank, Fife – 7pm – includes music on clarsach (small lever harp)

December Dates

  • 12 December – Poetry Pamphlet Fair – National Library of Scotland – 6pm
  • 06 December – Soft Launch, 7pm – From the Horse’s Mouth, Summerhall, Edinburgh

November Dates

  • 16 November – Fisherrow Open Night – 7pm – Fisherrow Centre, Musselburgh: I’ll be playing clarsach as folk arrive and reading from ‘Salt & Soil’
  • 23 November – ‘This is it!’ Literary Cabaret – 7-8.30pm – Central Hall, West Tollcross, Edinburgh – Poetry Readings and booklet sales

Salt & Soil Library Tour, East Lothian

  • 2 December    – 11.00am – 12pm – Gullane Library
  • 1 December    – 2.30 – 3.30pm – Ormiston Library
  • 30 November – 2.00 – 3.00pm – Musselburgh Library (closed event for City of Adelaide   presentation)
  • 29 November – 2.00 – 3.00pm – Dunbar Library
  • 28 November – 2.30 – 3.30pm – Longniddry Library
  • 27 November – 2.30 – 3.30pm – Port Seton Library

 

Golden Hare Books Hear Hare Here #4 19 October 2017 6.30-8 pm

By Rita Bradd

We’re back! Each month at Hear Hare Here, we’ll be bringing you three of our favourite poetic voices in a cornucopia of verse, MCed by our very own bookseller and poetry lover Alice Tarbuck. Flee the darkening evenings and join us as we light up the night with words, with readings and performances from the glorious Freddie Alexander, the oh so lovely Janette Ayachi and a mystery guest to be announced! Pick up a glass of wine on arrival and, as no poetry night is complete without a raffle, take a chance of winning a blind date with a book…

Freddie AlexanderFrederick “Freddie” Alexander is a writer and events organiser based in Edinburgh. Since 2013 he has been an organiser and host of the Inky Fingers Open Mic night, and has been an organiser of various other Edinburgh poetry nights. Freddie is a freelance writer for Broadway Baby, ScotsGay, and Flint & Pitch. He works for the National Library of Scotland.

 

Janette AyachiJanette Ayachi

Janette Ayachi is a Scottish-Algerian poet. She collaborates with artists, has been shortlisted for a few chewable accolades, and has performed her work on BBC radio, as well as at events across the UK. She is the author of poetry pamphlets Pauses at Zebra Crossings and A Choir of Ghosts, and a children’s chapter book The Mermaid, The Girl and The Gondola. She is currently working on a memoir titled Misdialing The Muses.

Rita Bradd

RITA BRADD is published since 2007 in a number of anthologies, and has read in many venues. In
2016 at StAnza – the Scottish International Poetry Festival held in St Andrew’s – her poem ‘City of
Adelaide Bleeds’ was a film installation.
‘Salt and Soil’ is Rita’s debut pamphlet, published in August 2017. Rita is completing her book on
her voyage to South Australia on a cargo ship with the oldest surviving clipper ship City of
Adelaide/Carrick.

 

https://goldenharebooks.com/event/hear-hare-4/

BBC3 The Verb – Sea Special – Ira Lightman

By Rita Bradd

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On 13th July 2015 I was delighted to be asked by poet Ira Lightman, a regular on BBC3 The Verb, (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b061glf9) to collaborate with him on a commissioned poem using Standard Marine Communications Language in ‘dactylic hexameter’. We wrote the poem as dialogue, with me being rescued from the Corryvreckan whirlpool off the west coast of Scotland between Scarba and Jura by Ira, and then us voyaging together to Salford, Manchester.

We were to record at BBC Studios at Salford on Thursday 16th. I took the train to Newcastle where I met Ira and we travelled to Manchester together, returning later that day. The programme went out on Friday 17th.

We were very fortunate to have the spontaneous added atmosphere to our poem of fellow guests the Ballina Whalers humming background as we read. The Ballina Whalers are : Pete Truin, Jamie Doe and Sam Brookes, who sing sea shanties in gorgeous harmony.

South Uist poet Niall Campbell, winner of the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award for his 1st collection ‘Moontide’, published by Bloodaxe, was also on the programme, as well as novelist Susan Sellers who spoke on Virginia Woolf.