tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4627937165084592162024-02-19T04:12:25.002+00:00CultFusionLEITH FESTIVAL'S ANNUAL POETRY EVENTCultFusionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10447115950879638503noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-462793716508459216.post-10806591231101436882022-08-09T17:36:00.034+01:002022-09-21T22:35:06.738+01:00CultFusion #8 - the abbreviated version<p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="522" data-original-width="1302" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8O-ecuiMdzQYNiL-hr5PSTulJewCxcf5FBoL5e9OEk_zd2F2AzQT29euzDhl_VMtJTWRuEt0sCoylmZnHNKachBALfi2tZXtLRuWB9QCXup5zQ07hFEDJ1NLhB3Du_vD8PPW8F6CFbUVsWk-ckLwrmK2QB8o1_RcBo4HDsyCP851ErjXOV0dXSpPAbw/w400-h160/CultFusion%20%238%20poets%20best.png" width="400" /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8O-ecuiMdzQYNiL-hr5PSTulJewCxcf5FBoL5e9OEk_zd2F2AzQT29euzDhl_VMtJTWRuEt0sCoylmZnHNKachBALfi2tZXtLRuWB9QCXup5zQ07hFEDJ1NLhB3Du_vD8PPW8F6CFbUVsWk-ckLwrmK2QB8o1_RcBo4HDsyCP851ErjXOV0dXSpPAbw/s1302/CultFusion%20%238%20poets%20best.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></a></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>MOMENTOUS news!</b> Assuming you're easily excited...</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;">CultFusion
has been invited to stage a 75-minute bonsai version of itself at Ocean
Terminal on the afternoon of Friday 16 September as part of the <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQR87iVvR9AJhGBHwkK7Sq8oeCZzJsf_YsowPZ2qIHuZPy1z4990OE4KR_oF6VBPUEZuw4HKl0zx0V3kx5A8B4kHoJJq39PPqXQCuEiS1CDdmApZWImioJP2KjvUPG8PWHj_g3duMSiAwjrHTVfljm1iGUmiyMy8pQnxH0SQIubMxmI9A29srYkT-Fjw/s989/Festival%20programme.png" target="_blank">Summer Anywhere Festival</a> of poetry, spoken word and music. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLNaqib9oVdTAjMmWF7pZINPrX2gIr3UMrEzwDqLNRw-l0Ze30uaALLteJuB4rwV93kWb7ELlkvzsz9ib5BfFC96pB23-e7D78lLb2k7NV-MYJ4CmAu_VSVVsEbXHoS5sYir3NS5tDrhyc0j1P8Ca8kfcJh5ftbCfI3t116rcB4euxO1E_ByOfZb-GsA/s1219/Summer%20Anywhere%20Festival.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="811" data-original-width="1219" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLNaqib9oVdTAjMmWF7pZINPrX2gIr3UMrEzwDqLNRw-l0Ze30uaALLteJuB4rwV93kWb7ELlkvzsz9ib5BfFC96pB23-e7D78lLb2k7NV-MYJ4CmAu_VSVVsEbXHoS5sYir3NS5tDrhyc0j1P8Ca8kfcJh5ftbCfI3t116rcB4euxO1E_ByOfZb-GsA/w400-h266/Summer%20Anywhere%20Festival.png" width="400" /></a></div><p><span style="font-size: x-small;">Emerging performance poet <b>Colin Nelson </b>("a horrible man writing horrible poems about horrible things. Horribly") and <b>Anne J A Jones</b>, whose short collection of poems in Scots, <i>Sluther Intae Hur Skin</i>, was published this year by the Handsel Press, will join CultFusion's resident versifier <b>Rex Sweeny </b>to provide a delectable hour-and-a-bit of poetic diversion for weary shoppers, nascent suicide bombers and anyone else who chances to stray into the Living Memory Association's "Wee Hub" (in what used to be Debenham's) between 2.15pm and 3.30pm on the day in question. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: times;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTXpfbzF-XC6kPP-gfjCcIsDT2-NnZSmaGj54Lwtmkz3dpdZTZIIezzDBqMIz3ga4Y6dYFs0nipIGgy5Gw_GMetdCStQpOvLmdaH2Rv_6-f-sslGc44fqbb1PS_C62r2flLLYL2Zrg-RWaARrD6lJlei1o7-0nPudnCv2vw5qnZclr6xC1JWoYgpinRA/s1415/The%20Arsenic%20Babies.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="944" data-original-width="1415" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTXpfbzF-XC6kPP-gfjCcIsDT2-NnZSmaGj54Lwtmkz3dpdZTZIIezzDBqMIz3ga4Y6dYFs0nipIGgy5Gw_GMetdCStQpOvLmdaH2Rv_6-f-sslGc44fqbb1PS_C62r2flLLYL2Zrg-RWaARrD6lJlei1o7-0nPudnCv2vw5qnZclr6xC1JWoYgpinRA/w400-h266/The%20Arsenic%20Babies.png" width="400" /></a></span></span></div><p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: times;">Musical relief will be injected by <b>The Arsenic Babies</b>, a guitar duo comprising CultFusion veteran <b>Kriss Robb </b>and his current partner in crime <b>Andy Farrell</b>, who as a classical guitarist added an extra dimension to </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman";">CultFusion </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">#7. <br /></span></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Frankly, what more could you ask of a Friday afternoon? And the whole shebang, like the <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5r9F0s2qWMKW5xkF-HCECyeGfphpj2TimXBC5lKqhR6_YJEmA0FhhlgW7MUQikSp9VV44u1j6NsxPyCXuaYF1VklWZSt4pFQ-WCDScjpCynaadNc0Qmh8U8g8HHwgwE5WKkFqG3qGRqOlkQE5EWVc7gTyATui4Aq4KNoI35hssGlModiN9frdcm0Dsg/s989/Festival%20programme.png" target="_blank">entire festival</a>, is <span style="color: red;"><b>FREE</b></span>. So be there - or risk a life of lingering regret!</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiEHy8e6OqQQGfWRGUjuuQcRs48Rs5jCkhl0api0pM3toGBVd9XqtnwrDL1Pu6TDqqRWRjfSsGM4HepcNeljsb-1PtcyDrbztaj_17F5AKbucfuBhGu1DTb9ZP7ue7v03afxfMMSIumfCV6sMolz0q9GL2wi_RYNKD1JpPBkiydnm-w-HxwGWF9gur6w/s1052/CultFusion%20%238%20poster%205.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1052" data-original-width="743" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiEHy8e6OqQQGfWRGUjuuQcRs48Rs5jCkhl0api0pM3toGBVd9XqtnwrDL1Pu6TDqqRWRjfSsGM4HepcNeljsb-1PtcyDrbztaj_17F5AKbucfuBhGu1DTb9ZP7ue7v03afxfMMSIumfCV6sMolz0q9GL2wi_RYNKD1JpPBkiydnm-w-HxwGWF9gur6w/w453-h640/CultFusion%20%238%20poster%205.png" width="453" /></a></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #09152d; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Photo </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"<span style="color: #09152d;">Leith
is burning!</span>"<span style="color: #09152d;"> by Amory Crossing, used
with permission.</span></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #09152d;"> </span></span></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #09152d;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #09152d;">And this is the programme for the whole festival (click to enlarge):</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #09152d;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #09152d;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #09152d;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLBlAbiWsFlmPKqib3MJRU8EjUQtaPp7Km_V8XXppdDVHtjhXMzLAayjDJPIaX1fZ-L3qbWMysoOAFXWOPbjB9BhmTU8eIbdHtL6A1x-S7PnSW0-MvJgS9JcmGQMAHpRkTi1n4RwSPwDGLMJ-WltekSk6ACsPdbsciuv90nRgnAD4yNBukK-zJyeSymw/s989/Festival%20programme.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="989" data-original-width="699" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLBlAbiWsFlmPKqib3MJRU8EjUQtaPp7Km_V8XXppdDVHtjhXMzLAayjDJPIaX1fZ-L3qbWMysoOAFXWOPbjB9BhmTU8eIbdHtL6A1x-S7PnSW0-MvJgS9JcmGQMAHpRkTi1n4RwSPwDGLMJ-WltekSk6ACsPdbsciuv90nRgnAD4yNBukK-zJyeSymw/w452-h640/Festival%20programme.png" width="452" /></a></span></span></div><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #09152d;"><br /></span></span></i><p></p>
</span></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></div><p></p>CultFusionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10447115950879638503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-462793716508459216.post-47325118557380706912022-08-09T16:56:00.003+01:002022-08-16T11:41:39.835+01:00What we learned at CultFusion #7<p><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVGt1xaNZQWJ-Oqk6-v0GkqYEix3y2SVvXUvMFrjOfVrYGKvefTEa7tlgwYHECZK5eMvirUnlkFxA5Di6jDAcf74MCQXo353jMJ7vG3AlwfBFB82m-0fT5rvq-VOxDCJpU4W2HaBKUASjOiNpeuplSxpu6iZU7-O58m20Absjy_T105hpseMXQWTj8ww/s923/Schoolkids%20being%20taught%20cropped%20more.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="642" data-original-width="923" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVGt1xaNZQWJ-Oqk6-v0GkqYEix3y2SVvXUvMFrjOfVrYGKvefTEa7tlgwYHECZK5eMvirUnlkFxA5Di6jDAcf74MCQXo353jMJ7vG3AlwfBFB82m-0fT5rvq-VOxDCJpU4W2HaBKUASjOiNpeuplSxpu6iZU7-O58m20Absjy_T105hpseMXQWTj8ww/w320-h223/Schoolkids%20being%20taught%20cropped%20more.png" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b>TWO claims</b> made in the
<a href="https://www.cultfusion.co.uk/2022/05/cultfusion-7-thursday-16-june-2022.html" target="_blank">previous post</a> were convincingly denied on the night by those best placed to
know. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Vicki Feaver</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, she revealed, did not win
the National Poetry Competition; she was runner-up. And <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Andrew Blair</b> was known as the Godfather of Edinburgh Poetry not
because he was controlling it all but because he awarded himself that title in
order to annoy a specific individual (not named). </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">CultFusion has signed a
solemn and legally binding undertaking never to repeat these disgraceful
assertions, which contained not a solitary jot or scintilla of truth. </span></p>
<p><style>@font-face
{font-family:"MS 明朝";
mso-font-charset:78;
mso-generic-font-family:auto;
mso-font-pitch:variable;
mso-font-signature:-536870145 1791491579 18 0 131231 0;}@font-face
{font-family:"MS 明朝";
mso-font-charset:78;
mso-generic-font-family:auto;
mso-font-pitch:variable;
mso-font-signature:-536870145 1791491579 18 0 131231 0;}@font-face
{font-family:Cambria;
panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;
mso-font-charset:0;
mso-generic-font-family:auto;
mso-font-pitch:variable;
mso-font-signature:-536870145 1073743103 0 0 415 0;}p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
{mso-style-unhide:no;
mso-style-qformat:yes;
mso-style-parent:"";
margin:0cm;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
mso-pagination:widow-orphan;
font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Cambria;
mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria;
mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-fareast-font-family:"MS 明朝";
mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;
mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;}.MsoChpDefault
{mso-style-type:export-only;
mso-default-props:yes;
font-family:Cambria;
mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria;
mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-fareast-font-family:"MS 明朝";
mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;
mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;}div.WordSection1
{page:WordSection1;}</style></p>CultFusionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10447115950879638503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-462793716508459216.post-13480205914286398092022-05-04T16:10:00.024+01:002022-05-16T12:07:02.494+01:00CultFusion #7 - Thursday 16 June 2022<p style="text-align: center;">
</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiENLJF7XYHDM3PR_0quOVadIDKmFxf5dQsyBfm2N93ddvDxXG7f5cgzhErtfXj7ffif-UpmKTVe8tMmKyGcPAvNe__m-xPdU6iiJ4YOnP_JKXtBGMOwRlDtu3E_6YP42BxVhOfqmLJBFlxJiCLxDNOPTOxHq9cWlJtcMvxqJZFxgf6hxYR5FO1Qnynyw/s1268/Kriss%20Robb%20painting%20cropped%20further.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="715" data-original-width="1268" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiENLJF7XYHDM3PR_0quOVadIDKmFxf5dQsyBfm2N93ddvDxXG7f5cgzhErtfXj7ffif-UpmKTVe8tMmKyGcPAvNe__m-xPdU6iiJ4YOnP_JKXtBGMOwRlDtu3E_6YP42BxVhOfqmLJBFlxJiCLxDNOPTOxHq9cWlJtcMvxqJZFxgf6hxYR5FO1Qnynyw/s320/Kriss%20Robb%20painting%20cropped%20further.png" width="320" /></a></b><br /></div><p><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">LEITH Festival </span></span></b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">is back
after an inexplicable two-year hiatus, and here</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">'<span style="color: black;">s CultFusion trotting alongside like the faithful hound it
is! Scotland</span>'<span style="color: black;">s most misleadingly named poetry
night returns to the Persevere bar with a diverse array of poets - Vicki
Feaver, Andrew Blair, Carly Brown and Rex Sweeny - plus an accomplished local
singer-songwriter in the form of Calum Carlyle, with two or three other
musicians chipping in. This year, for the first time, </span><b><span style="color: red;">admission is free</span></b><span style="color: black;">. Doors open at 6.30pm and it</span>'s worth arriving early
to make sure of a seat. The event begins at 7.00pm, will have one interval and
should end around 9.15pm. The address of the Persevere is 398 Easter Road,
Edinburgh </span><span class="lrzxr"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">EH6
8HT</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">. Here's the lowdown on some of the
evening's performers…</span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVhVmj1sdpi7uJSxH0gBI4icY1xXJ1b2r4ChNabYG5mHOsAUud9POewVQS4QS-v8DXcNSrGtomMhIEAUTk390aXuGwdb_pjy-hUHBAbHMSoGoRTvRueeC97Y2_AdknMLRgcWDx06O6jEwg6Fr510p-IxhzhJa6IvKCVZ9bgcVpAc3eC7ku9JKnM2lNcw/s1024/Vicki%20Feaver%2005.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="768" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVhVmj1sdpi7uJSxH0gBI4icY1xXJ1b2r4ChNabYG5mHOsAUud9POewVQS4QS-v8DXcNSrGtomMhIEAUTk390aXuGwdb_pjy-hUHBAbHMSoGoRTvRueeC97Y2_AdknMLRgcWDx06O6jEwg6Fr510p-IxhzhJa6IvKCVZ9bgcVpAc3eC7ku9JKnM2lNcw/s320/Vicki%20Feaver%2005.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman";">
<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman";">VICKI FEAVER </span></b></span></b></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman";">is one of the UK</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">'<span style="color: black;">s
most respected poets. Her reputation rests on four collections, beginning with <i>Close Relatives </i>in 1981 and continuing
with <i>The Handless Maiden </i>(1994), <i>The Book of Blood </i>(2006) and <i>I Want! I Want!</i> (2020). Over the years Vicki
has won the National Poetry Competition, the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem,
a Cholmondeley Award and a Hawthornden Fellowship, not forgetting her W H
Heinemann award for <i>The Book of Blood</i>,
which was also shortlisted for a Costa Award; and both <i>The Book of Blood </i>and <i>I Want!
I Want! </i>were shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection. Her
work has been described as </span>"<span style="color: black;">red in tooth
and claw</span>"<span style="color: black;"> but </span>"<span style="color: black;">also highly sensual and inviting, with a tactile quality</span>"<span style="color: black;">; Ted Hughes wrote of it as </span>"</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times;">thin beautifully etched ice over such deep
shocking water</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">".</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman";">She is Emeritus
Professor of </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">English and Creative Writing at the University
of Chichester and has lived in Scotland since she retired. </span></span></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman";">
<style>@font-face
{font-family:Times;
panose-1:2 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0;
mso-font-charset:0;
mso-generic-font-family:auto;
mso-font-pitch:variable;
mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;}@font-face
{font-family:"MS 明朝";
panose-1:0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0;
mso-font-charset:128;
mso-generic-font-family:roman;
mso-font-format:other;
mso-font-pitch:fixed;
mso-font-signature:1 134676480 16 0 131072 0;}@font-face
{font-family:"Cambria Math";
panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;
mso-font-charset:0;
mso-generic-font-family:auto;
mso-font-pitch:variable;
mso-font-signature:-536870145 1107305727 0 0 415 0;}@font-face
{font-family:Cambria;
panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;
mso-font-charset:0;
mso-generic-font-family:auto;
mso-font-pitch:variable;
mso-font-signature:-536870145 1073743103 0 0 415 0;}p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
{mso-style-unhide:no;
mso-style-qformat:yes;
mso-style-parent:"";
margin:0cm;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
mso-pagination:widow-orphan;
font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Cambria;
mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria;
mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-fareast-font-family:"MS 明朝";
mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;
mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;}.MsoChpDefault
{mso-style-type:export-only;
mso-default-props:yes;
font-family:Cambria;
mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria;
mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-fareast-font-family:"MS 明朝";
mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;
mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;}div.WordSection1
{page:WordSection1;}</style></span></b></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><style>@font-face
{font-family:Times;
panose-1:2 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0;
mso-font-charset:0;
mso-generic-font-family:auto;
mso-font-pitch:variable;
mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;}@font-face
{font-family:"MS 明朝";
panose-1:0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0;
mso-font-charset:128;
mso-generic-font-family:roman;
mso-font-format:other;
mso-font-pitch:fixed;
mso-font-signature:1 134676480 16 0 131072 0;}@font-face
{font-family:"Cambria Math";
panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;
mso-font-charset:0;
mso-generic-font-family:auto;
mso-font-pitch:variable;
mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;}@font-face
{font-family:Cambria;
panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;
mso-font-charset:0;
mso-generic-font-family:auto;
mso-font-pitch:variable;
mso-font-signature:-536870145 1073743103 0 0 415 0;}p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
{mso-style-unhide:no;
mso-style-qformat:yes;
mso-style-parent:"";
margin:0cm;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
mso-pagination:widow-orphan;
font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Cambria;
mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria;
mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-fareast-font-family:"MS 明朝";
mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;
mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;}.MsoChpDefault
{mso-style-type:export-only;
mso-default-props:yes;
font-family:Cambria;
mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria;
mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-fareast-font-family:"MS 明朝";
mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;
mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;}div.WordSection1
{page:WordSection1;}</style></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Hear her read some of her
poetry <a href="https://poetryarchive.org/poet/vicki-feaver" target="_blank">here</a> - </span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and this archived <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151125084100/http://www.sheerpoetry.co.uk/general-reader/interviews/vicki-feaver-interview" target="_blank">interview</a>
is fascinating.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></p>
<span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhADnVG1cGp23abeHzxu21SyI0L3pnPWwHk5FaCkz0w_qoqQ4MghrUCPYERQrcZesH7-69OOJ-XjCD2z1mfI0cuvsdHVZkuKZeulxOPFLUQ8JEbymgmg1YzL3qQ7shsfdNQ4l7_ECwvw-LoEX5acmGBUZtkn7mywLz6ceT83vxkNuNu_ZYE904Nam-muA/s615/Carly%20Brown%20hips.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="615" data-original-width="535" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhADnVG1cGp23abeHzxu21SyI0L3pnPWwHk5FaCkz0w_qoqQ4MghrUCPYERQrcZesH7-69OOJ-XjCD2z1mfI0cuvsdHVZkuKZeulxOPFLUQ8JEbymgmg1YzL3qQ7shsfdNQ4l7_ECwvw-LoEX5acmGBUZtkn7mywLz6ceT83vxkNuNu_ZYE904Nam-muA/s320/Carly%20Brown%20hips.png" width="278" /></a></div></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">A Texan who</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">'<span style="color: black;">s inhabited Scotland for the past decade, <b>CARLY BROWN </b>won </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Scotland</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">'</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">s National Poetry Slam in 2013 and was
subsequently ranked fourth in the world at the World Series of Slam Poetry in
Paris. She</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">'</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">s since performed at dozens of
festivals and other events and published two short collections, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><i>Grown Up Poetry Needs to Leave Me Alone</i> and <i>Anastasia, Look in the Mirror</i> (commended for the Callum MacDonald
Memorial Award last year). She</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">'</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">s now working on a debut full-length
poetry collection about cosmic wormholes. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">All of my work is infused with warmth
and humor and underpinned by the belief that comedy can be a tool for
communicating surprising truths and inspiring change.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In the midst of all this
she collaborated on a best-selling children</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">'</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">s picture book and gained a Doctorate of
Fine Art at Glasgow. Visit her <a href="https://carlyjbrown.com/" target="_blank">website</a>.</span></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Photo of Carly Brown
by </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Perry
Jonsson</span></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgibupppN01PqG_a4EhS3avOtSuxHkorRhq_DodKbeDascqELceVBZerwU4rMBVi3glk4UiFJ1Qu_iPF3CGjG5tf5El_bsAuIJvgx3x4J1in8NuEjbArvDCL_VsUPjPKCBu2w5Xt1Mx0ohMJTEPZTySkEKS20jraY5rPMign199OJM8tUN5CJQcDrDaiQ/s750/Andrew%20Blair%20cropped.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="606" data-original-width="750" height="259" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgibupppN01PqG_a4EhS3avOtSuxHkorRhq_DodKbeDascqELceVBZerwU4rMBVi3glk4UiFJ1Qu_iPF3CGjG5tf5El_bsAuIJvgx3x4J1in8NuEjbArvDCL_VsUPjPKCBu2w5Xt1Mx0ohMJTEPZTySkEKS20jraY5rPMign199OJM8tUN5CJQcDrDaiQ/s320/Andrew%20Blair%20cropped.png" width="320" /></a></div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There was a time when <b>ANDREW BLAIR </b>seemed omnipresent on the
spoken word scene in Edinburgh (and perhaps also Glasgow). No open mic was complete without
him, few live events weren't organised by him, and he became known as </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"<span style="color: black;">the godfather of Edinburgh Poetry</span>". Those heady years yielded the title
of his full-length collection, <i>An Intense
Young Man at an Open Mic Event </i>(2017). Andrew has performed on the bill at </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Flint & Pitch, Sonnet Youth, Loud
Poets and goodness knows where else, has developed theatre and poetry shows at
a grassroots level, formerly wrote for websites such as <i>Den of Geek </i>and <i>Cultbox</i>
and was co-creator and co-host of the podcast <i>Poetry As Fuck</i>. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">My work focuses on absurdity and
melancholy, on repressed male anger and ego, on inanity and coping mechanisms.
Also I am wide about poetry quite a lot.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> His short collection <i>The R-Pattz
Facttz 2020 </i>was published in, er, 2020. Here</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">'</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">s a slightly more detailed <a href="https://poetryasfuck.wordpress.com/andrew/" target="_blank">profile</a>.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuflHdORbyxa4K1MlLOMzO4GFPU862D7cxesVK3pJ6-x0_nbOZs7icgS6TV9XzoFeScMwWYfWLu73f6t75hEtWR8N5DIrNqo3jd0CFPChyYGnuLRvek-J3g8vZUKWCq1YShXMkvmEIdrNcP1qTN43dwi9vIAmIaXJK5P0QeqGTHeiw9Poka8BkGnqbKg/s1030/Rex%20Sweeny%20tombstone%20cropped.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="777" data-original-width="1030" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuflHdORbyxa4K1MlLOMzO4GFPU862D7cxesVK3pJ6-x0_nbOZs7icgS6TV9XzoFeScMwWYfWLu73f6t75hEtWR8N5DIrNqo3jd0CFPChyYGnuLRvek-J3g8vZUKWCq1YShXMkvmEIdrNcP1qTN43dwi9vIAmIaXJK5P0QeqGTHeiw9Poka8BkGnqbKg/s320/Rex%20Sweeny%20tombstone%20cropped.png" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Poems by <b>REX SWEENY </b>have appeared in <i>The Dark Horse</i>, <i>Gutter</i>, <i>Poetry Scotland </i>and
a range of other periodicals that may or may not have been made up by him in a bid to impress the credulous. Spoken word events including Shore Poets and
The Heretics have allowed him to do his stuff without sustaining any obvious reputational
damage. His main literary credential is having spent nine months lodging with
Boris Pasternak</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">'<span style="color: black;">s sister in
1981-82. </span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqfYOrnQx9L5aR_KpTcQVjAQcYrMSAcuSkzXYmWuxyk1bY70Lq84L7ZyBBPjeTbK1FXVi2XdqapRFlS6bo4ZfueBmCCkpF5SbPOl0MXeLHQkcsdUuyv8k6to3DLAIctPLhkUFVnOZs5VXCPtjuPpTYt29w6YjXZtMXl8wqOMDrMhO1ZfnbDO_tA82viQ/s1043/Calum%20Carlyle%20preferred%20image%20cropped.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="1043" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqfYOrnQx9L5aR_KpTcQVjAQcYrMSAcuSkzXYmWuxyk1bY70Lq84L7ZyBBPjeTbK1FXVi2XdqapRFlS6bo4ZfueBmCCkpF5SbPOl0MXeLHQkcsdUuyv8k6to3DLAIctPLhkUFVnOZs5VXCPtjuPpTYt29w6YjXZtMXl8wqOMDrMhO1ZfnbDO_tA82viQ/s320/Calum%20Carlyle%20preferred%20image%20cropped.png" width="320" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Originally from Orkney but
now based in Leith, singer-songwriter <b>CALUM
CARLYLE</b> has released no fewer than twenty digital albums of his work. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"</span><span class="d2edcug0"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Quirky,
prolific, controversial. Calum Carlyle inspires adjectives like no other!</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"<span style="color: black;"> He also hosts an offbeat weekly music programme on Spanish
Rock Shot Radio. He</span>'<span style="color: black;">s an engaging performer and
we look forward to having him with us; meanwhile you can listen to him <a href="https://calumsmusic.com/" target="_blank">here</a>, or indeed on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/CalumCarlyle" target="_blank"><i>YouTube</i></a>.</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIfZK-0X_bVpv9-Rc4JYFliPvF1Ujh4Xt34zUkzznLmeWkjik4-EEh6m0gniFL7QmkZjeHgFg0Xf40ps2kDbkjI4FG6E8u6k8eYG0h7ANt9nr_Ofrd5OYtYYmVC5vJDcxlnuRsD60wT_hGByvNJWkDBga-cvlTeobnra3kBrkw7c-UDu53tr9epy_gog/s771/Persevere%202022.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="416" data-original-width="771" height="173" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIfZK-0X_bVpv9-Rc4JYFliPvF1Ujh4Xt34zUkzznLmeWkjik4-EEh6m0gniFL7QmkZjeHgFg0Xf40ps2kDbkjI4FG6E8u6k8eYG0h7ANt9nr_Ofrd5OYtYYmVC5vJDcxlnuRsD60wT_hGByvNJWkDBga-cvlTeobnra3kBrkw7c-UDu53tr9epy_gog/s320/Persevere%202022.jpg" width="320" /></a></i></div><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></i><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">All in all, CultFusion #7 is shaping up to be
an entertaining and rewarding evening and</span><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">we hope you</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">'<span style="color: black;">ll join us
at the Persevere on 16 June to be part of it.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Giant hornet painting & photo of Rex Sweeny by Kriss Robb</span></i></span></p><br />CultFusionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10447115950879638503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-462793716508459216.post-68891026587602350092020-01-16T13:11:00.000+00:002020-01-19T12:35:53.058+00:00Our high-flying graduates<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNVps-dCFIDSqqvD14nnnuUyliqIoeHu8Lwush30BHK1jge_WO4EfvWMxb_QfX784hSlMVMe9WDLGXUBshQxX3rqjbu_N4xwu-aWElTX9tG0lnMGK92HF_B-K9Y2hr7xlaaOUH0DkVmk3I/s1600/CultFusion+Illuminati+graphic.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="508" data-original-width="1302" height="124" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNVps-dCFIDSqqvD14nnnuUyliqIoeHu8Lwush30BHK1jge_WO4EfvWMxb_QfX784hSlMVMe9WDLGXUBshQxX3rqjbu_N4xwu-aWElTX9tG0lnMGK92HF_B-K9Y2hr7xlaaOUH0DkVmk3I/s320/CultFusion+Illuminati+graphic.png" width="320" /></a></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman";">BELATED congratulations </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman";">to <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://www.janetteayachi.com/" target="_blank">Janette Ayachi</a> </b>(guest poet at
CultFusion </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">#<span style="color: black;">2) on winning the <a href="https://www.saltiresociety.org.uk/" target="_blank">Saltire Society</a></span>'<span style="color: black;">s </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Poetry Book of the Year Award 2019
for her collection <i><span style="mso-field-code: " HYPERLINK \0022http\:\/\/bit\.ly\/ayachibook\0022 \\t \0022_blank\0022 ";"><span class="MsoHyperlink">Hand Over Mouth Music</span></span></i>, and even more
belatedly to <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://jaywhittaker.uk/" target="_blank">Jay Whittaker</a> </b></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman";">(guest poet at
CultFusion </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">#<span style="color: black;">4) on winning the same award the previous year with <a href="https://www.cinnamonpress.com/index.php/products-listing/product/293-wristwatch-jay-whittaker" target="_blank"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Wristwatch</i></a>.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman";">Also deserving congratulation are <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://www.redsquirrelpress.com/product-page/much-left-unsaid-finola-scott" target="_blank">Finola Scott</a> </b>(guest poet at CultFusion </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">#<span style="color: black;">4), who was
recently installed as Makar of the <a href="https://federationofwritersscotland.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Federation of Writers Scotland</a>, and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://www.scottishbooktrust.com/authors/joy-hendry" target="_blank">Joy Hendry</a> </b>(guest poet at CultFusion </span>#<span style="color: black;">3 and a loyal supporter since) who was inducted </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">into
the Saltire Society's <a href="https://www.saltiresociety.org.uk/news/2019/10/05/2019-outstanding-women-of-scotland-2019-announced?fbclid=IwAR2hDwaX2EWiak9jjGPwAZfbdM2I5uo5lY4C6aQaNYE8iWX1_fmRnRBg38Y" target="_blank">Outstanding Women of Scotland</a> community in October,
joining the likes of Nicola Sturgeon, J K Rowling, Annie Lennox, Lesley Riddoch
and Jackie Kay. And quite right too!</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman";"></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman";">Surely this proves once and for all that appearing at CultFusion
is an unrivalled pathway to fame, fortune and the favour of the Saltire
Society? </span></div>
<style>
<!--
/* Font Definitions */
@font-face
{font-family:"MS 明朝";
panose-1:0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0;
mso-font-charset:128;
mso-generic-font-family:roman;
mso-font-format:other;
mso-font-pitch:fixed;
mso-font-signature:1 134676480 16 0 131072 0;}
@font-face
{font-family:"MS 明朝";
panose-1:0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0;
mso-font-charset:128;
mso-generic-font-family:roman;
mso-font-format:other;
mso-font-pitch:fixed;
mso-font-signature:1 134676480 16 0 131072 0;}
@font-face
{font-family:Cambria;
panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;
mso-font-charset:0;
mso-generic-font-family:auto;
mso-font-pitch:variable;
mso-font-signature:-536870145 1073743103 0 0 415 0;}
/* Style Definitions */
p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
{mso-style-unhide:no;
mso-style-qformat:yes;
mso-style-parent:"";
margin:0cm;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
mso-pagination:widow-orphan;
font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Cambria;
mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria;
mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-fareast-font-family:"MS 明朝";
mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;
mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;}
a:link, span.MsoHyperlink
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:blue;
text-decoration:underline;
text-underline:single;}
a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed
{mso-style-noshow:yes;
mso-style-priority:99;
color:purple;
mso-themecolor:followedhyperlink;
text-decoration:underline;
text-underline:single;}
.MsoChpDefault
{mso-style-type:export-only;
mso-default-props:yes;
font-family:Cambria;
mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria;
mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-fareast-font-family:"MS 明朝";
mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;
mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;}size:612.0pt 792.0pt;
margin:72.0pt 90.0pt 72.0pt 90.0pt;
mso-header-margin:36.0pt;
mso-footer-margin:36.0pt;
mso-paper-source:0;}
div.WordSection1
{page:WordSection1;}</style>CultFusionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10447115950879638503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-462793716508459216.post-6164288698866159052019-04-23T11:07:00.002+01:002019-05-17T19:54:08.281+01:00CultFusion #6 - Wednesday 12 June 2019<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiXTjyw9Yq1bP-ZmjxEoHS44dhJrLYTmrKQN6qMxS7vsD64D1R9ODQA-gAk4OLcpvt2xT5a1e6ZyuNIUMn62dkJJFgntciZRUF1NWVcq-IYY2zBiOxJ5gaL6tKZ91cjrugLFbIuIsGAJ1U/s1600/Persevere+04.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="332" data-original-width="550" height="193" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiXTjyw9Yq1bP-ZmjxEoHS44dhJrLYTmrKQN6qMxS7vsD64D1R9ODQA-gAk4OLcpvt2xT5a1e6ZyuNIUMn62dkJJFgntciZRUF1NWVcq-IYY2zBiOxJ5gaL6tKZ91cjrugLFbIuIsGAJ1U/s320/Persevere+04.png" width="320" /></a></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman";">YES, Scotland</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">'<span style="color: black;">s </span></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman";">most<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>misleadingly
named poetry night is returning to Leith Festival for the fifth year running
and to the Persevere bar for the third. Four contrasting poets - Gerda
Stevenson, Marjorie Lotfi Gill, Patrick James Errington and Rex Sweeny - will read
their work to a admiring throng, with interjections by various musicians. The
cost of admission is £3. Doors open at 6.30pm and it</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">'s worth arriving early to make sure of a
seat. The event begins at 7.00pm, will have one interval, and should end around
9.15pm. The address of the Persevere is 398 Easter Road, Edinburgh </span><span class="lrzxr"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">EH6 8HT</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">. Details of some of the performers
follow…<span style="color: black;"></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<style>
<!--
/* Font Definitions */
@font-face
{font-family:"MS 明朝";
panose-1:0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0;
mso-font-charset:128;
mso-generic-font-family:roman;
mso-font-format:other;
mso-font-pitch:fixed;
mso-font-signature:1 134676480 16 0 131072 0;}
@font-face
{font-family:"Cambria Math";
panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;
mso-font-charset:0;
mso-generic-font-family:auto;
mso-font-pitch:variable;
mso-font-signature:-536870145 1107305727 0 0 415 0;}
@font-face
{font-family:Cambria;
panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;
mso-font-charset:0;
mso-generic-font-family:auto;
mso-font-pitch:variable;
mso-font-signature:-536870145 1073743103 0 0 415 0;}
/* Style Definitions */
p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
{mso-style-unhide:no;
mso-style-qformat:yes;
mso-style-parent:"";
margin:0cm;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
mso-pagination:widow-orphan;
font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Cambria;
mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria;
mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-fareast-font-family:"MS 明朝";
mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;
mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;}
span.lrzxr
{mso-style-name:lrzxr;
mso-style-unhide:no;}
.MsoChpDefault
{mso-style-type:export-only;
mso-default-props:yes;
font-family:Cambria;
mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria;
mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-fareast-font-family:"MS 明朝";
mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;
mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;}
@page WordSection1
{size:612.0pt 792.0pt;
margin:72.0pt 90.0pt 72.0pt 90.0pt;
mso-header-margin:36.0pt;
mso-footer-margin:36.0pt;
mso-paper-source:0;}
div.WordSection1
{page:WordSection1;}
-->
</style></div>
<style>
<!--
/* Font Definitions */
@font-face
{font-family:"MS 明朝";
panose-1:0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0;
mso-font-charset:128;
mso-generic-font-family:roman;
mso-font-format:other;
mso-font-pitch:fixed;
mso-font-signature:1 134676480 16 0 131072 0;}
@font-face
{font-family:"Cambria Math";
panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;
mso-font-charset:0;
mso-generic-font-family:auto;
mso-font-pitch:variable;
mso-font-signature:-536870145 1107305727 0 0 415 0;}
@font-face
{font-family:Cambria;
panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;
mso-font-charset:0;
mso-generic-font-family:auto;
mso-font-pitch:variable;
mso-font-signature:-536870145 1073743103 0 0 415 0;}
/* Style Definitions */
p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
{mso-style-unhide:no;
mso-style-qformat:yes;
mso-style-parent:"";
margin:0cm;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
mso-pagination:widow-orphan;
font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Cambria;
mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria;
mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-fareast-font-family:"MS 明朝";
mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;
mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;}
span.lrzxr
{mso-style-name:lrzxr;
mso-style-unhide:no;}
.MsoChpDefault
{mso-style-type:export-only;
mso-default-props:yes;
font-family:Cambria;
mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria;
mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-fareast-font-family:"MS 明朝";
mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;
mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;}
@page WordSection1
{size:612.0pt 792.0pt;
margin:72.0pt 90.0pt 72.0pt 90.0pt;
mso-header-margin:36.0pt;
mso-footer-margin:36.0pt;
mso-paper-source:0;}
div.WordSection1
{page:WordSection1;}
-->
</style></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBk0ZORJvHMH13KqqBEoH0XtOE1j2lYXw6yLlSVPMZFOLA9rgqDeQ9KBSlAALo3iy2eDl6tBrkEcOVKQRqGQtAN0VstmFx6cQ7QyzMZ8LEBvLbkDdN49lDenccBy6Uoqej3aESOVLF-NbH/s1600/Gerda-Stevenson-n6nj.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="800" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBk0ZORJvHMH13KqqBEoH0XtOE1j2lYXw6yLlSVPMZFOLA9rgqDeQ9KBSlAALo3iy2eDl6tBrkEcOVKQRqGQtAN0VstmFx6cQ7QyzMZ8LEBvLbkDdN49lDenccBy6Uoqej3aESOVLF-NbH/s320/Gerda-Stevenson-n6nj.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">GERDA
STEVENSON </span></b><span lang="EN-US">is one of Scotland</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">'</span><span lang="EN-US">s
most distinguished actresses, winning a BAFTA Scotland Best Actress award in
1993 for her performance in the film <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Blue
Black Permanent</i>. She</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">'</span><span lang="EN-US">s also </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the founder of <i><span style="font-family: "cambria"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Stellar Quines</span></i> (Scotland</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">'</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">s
leading women</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">'</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">s theatre company),</span><span lang="EN-US"> a dramatist and radio
scriptwriter, a director, a singer-songwriter and an increasingly admired poet.
Her first collection of poems, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">If this
were Real</i>, appeared in 2013 and was hailed by Ron Butlin in the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sunday Herald </i>as </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">"</span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-style: normal;">The best of the new in contemporary
Scottish poetry - not to be missed</span></i><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">.</span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">"</span><span lang="EN-US">
More recently she</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">'</span><span lang="EN-US">s been acclaimed for her collection <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Quines: Poems in tribute to women of Scotland</i> (Luath Press, 2018)
which was described by Lesley Riddoch as </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">"</span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-style: normal;">a vivid explosion of thought, description and bold
opinion…a wonderful, life-affirming book.</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">"</span><span lang="EN-US"> Gerda</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">'</span><span lang="EN-US">s
website is <a href="http://www.gerdastevenson.co.uk/" target="_blank">here</a>. </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnQWCfSoTVk5ERv0aTm4DNFAXexmTiXs4RaK37mXZAjREEi7l2o6nm4ZQx9LRFOrLsGp9WD6L_ITWgt0N4NZ6q8u06PbYmsv_mEKKgoZyDpfDLUCioy-asmv6AEdmDjfjDNgYLJqn9l0Qi/s1600/Marjorie-Lotfi-Gill-EM-02.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="706" data-original-width="1024" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnQWCfSoTVk5ERv0aTm4DNFAXexmTiXs4RaK37mXZAjREEi7l2o6nm4ZQx9LRFOrLsGp9WD6L_ITWgt0N4NZ6q8u06PbYmsv_mEKKgoZyDpfDLUCioy-asmv6AEdmDjfjDNgYLJqn9l0Qi/s320/Marjorie-Lotfi-Gill-EM-02.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br />
<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN-US">Daughter of an Iranian father and an
American mother, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MARJORIE LOTFI GILL </b>spent
half her childhood in Tehran before the family had to flee at the time of the
Revolution. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">She then lived in San Diego, Washington
DC and New York, moving to London in 1999 and to Edinburgh in 2005. Her poetry
has been widely published and performed (not least on BBC Radio 4). Last year
Tapsalteerie Press published her collection <i><span style="font-family: "cambria"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Refuge</span></i><i><span style="font-style: normal;">,</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "cambria"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></i>containing poems reflecting on her experiences in
Iran. Beth McDonough said of it: </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">"Marjorie Lotfi </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Gill
writes spell-bindingly well, her lines mapping four generations and three
continents, her craft worthy of her story.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">"</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">Marjorie has
facilitated hundreds of creative writing workshops for the public and is the
founder of</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Open Book, promoting reading groups
for the vulnerable and for adults in the community; she also chairs the
Trustees of the Wigtown Book Festival. </span><span lang="EN-US">Visit her
website <a href="http://www.marjoriegill.com/" target="_blank">here</a>. </span></span><br />
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK9Xis64YhUKg5UtDXJEjfqgwj8DySQlqCNKfDDDYb8ZPsLXqjAl-6a7UqhOIN0wtoKDKXXOEhjfcKVQc3yF7IMkhreJYPud5zNTg43YyOJd6xn19JPqzvTJalihmqn2L_6ApgBiaErUSR/s1600/Patrick+Errington+%2528ignitionpress%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK9Xis64YhUKg5UtDXJEjfqgwj8DySQlqCNKfDDDYb8ZPsLXqjAl-6a7UqhOIN0wtoKDKXXOEhjfcKVQc3yF7IMkhreJYPud5zNTg43YyOJd6xn19JPqzvTJalihmqn2L_6ApgBiaErUSR/s1600/Patrick+Errington+%2528ignitionpress%2529.jpg" /></a></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br />
<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">PATRICK
JAMES ERRINGTON </span></b><span lang="EN-US">has published two short collections
of his poems, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Glean </i>(2018) and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Field Studies </i>(2019) as well as winning
or being commended for several international prizes. Canadian-born, he studied
at the universities of Alberta, Columbia and St Andrews, doing a doctorate at St
Andrews </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">in poetic theory and enactive
hermeneutics</span><span lang="EN-US"> under the supervision of Don Paterson and
John Burnside. The latter calls Patrick </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">"</span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-style: normal;">a real find</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">"</span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-style: normal;">, adding that </span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">"</span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-style: normal;">the scope of his imagination, combined with psychological
integrity and linguistic rigour, mark him out as a poet I</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">'</span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-style: normal;">ll return to again and again.</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">" He's also a translator
from English into French and a former copy editor on the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">New Yorker </i>and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Vanity Fair</i>,
and presently teaches at several Scottish universities. Learn more <a href="http://pjerrington.com/" target="_blank">here</a>. </span></span><br />
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVNlN8Z05b39HhtR6-lIm14H2dwRkBAMtvWYJu2c574mxncHCcEI5tGEWrfeXvYKg9GfrTM_sQsXYBzbP8uAcWomqzgtriofK_JoNqe0i6uLwdty1fcb5_OWgi_esnux3TtPi_ETrEggFn/s1600/wankers.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="467" data-original-width="700" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVNlN8Z05b39HhtR6-lIm14H2dwRkBAMtvWYJu2c574mxncHCcEI5tGEWrfeXvYKg9GfrTM_sQsXYBzbP8uAcWomqzgtriofK_JoNqe0i6uLwdty1fcb5_OWgi_esnux3TtPi_ETrEggFn/s320/wankers.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN-US">If <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">REX
SWEENY </b>had a friend, they</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">'</span><span lang="EN-US">d probably both look like this.</span></span><br />
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3U4y-lnsBNv2nwgTkVnY2qHvq6sH2U7hAt42J5ETYhBG_YHtxVGc30dBmcxuNXWXCKGR6iUAq_OwV8p9Zj3woeDGiNSVDg3b9QJiIdmRfBil-FpEVqkfcN86wTF-56Qw0_rv-hTO2jAFf/s1600/CultFusion+musicians.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="690" data-original-width="1231" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3U4y-lnsBNv2nwgTkVnY2qHvq6sH2U7hAt42J5ETYhBG_YHtxVGc30dBmcxuNXWXCKGR6iUAq_OwV8p9Zj3woeDGiNSVDg3b9QJiIdmRfBil-FpEVqkfcN86wTF-56Qw0_rv-hTO2jAFf/s320/CultFusion+musicians.png" width="320" /></a></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN-US">The <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">CULTFUSION
MUSICIANS </b>are very well indeed, thank you, and there is nothing remotely
strange about them and no cause for concern.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN-US">Here is this year</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">'</span><span lang="EN-US">s <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">POSTER</b>,<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>depicting a typical Leith street
scene: </span></span><br />
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJLk_4OjtgdmqUTKkzORKaDCr-JjkRmId4QJXR91DKCtOLPsx3BP3ad740RX2hc9uCUg0K57MFZkF7YqMqzJodgW-J2ik6kO7o61AeehxPCVw3pu2rJ_EYjwMA1_WKBGIu-Nczm7kfRDyx/s1600/CultFusion+6+poster+as+photograph.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="993" data-original-width="716" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJLk_4OjtgdmqUTKkzORKaDCr-JjkRmId4QJXR91DKCtOLPsx3BP3ad740RX2hc9uCUg0K57MFZkF7YqMqzJodgW-J2ik6kO7o61AeehxPCVw3pu2rJ_EYjwMA1_WKBGIu-Nczm7kfRDyx/s320/CultFusion+6+poster+as+photograph.png" width="230" /></a></div>
</div>
<style>
<!--
/* Font Definitions */
@font-face
{font-family:"MS 明朝";
panose-1:0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0;
mso-font-charset:128;
mso-generic-font-family:roman;
mso-font-format:other;
mso-font-pitch:fixed;
mso-font-signature:1 134676480 16 0 131072 0;}
@font-face
{font-family:"Cambria Math";
panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;
mso-font-charset:0;
mso-generic-font-family:auto;
mso-font-pitch:variable;
mso-font-signature:-536870145 1107305727 0 0 415 0;}
@font-face
{font-family:Cambria;
panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;
mso-font-charset:0;
mso-generic-font-family:auto;
mso-font-pitch:variable;
mso-font-signature:-536870145 1073743103 0 0 415 0;}
/* Style Definitions */
p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
{mso-style-unhide:no;
mso-style-qformat:yes;
mso-style-parent:"";
margin:0cm;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
mso-pagination:widow-orphan;
font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Cambria;
mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria;
mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-fareast-font-family:"MS 明朝";
mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;
mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;}
.MsoChpDefault
{mso-style-type:export-only;
mso-default-props:yes;
font-family:Cambria;
mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria;
mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-fareast-font-family:"MS 明朝";
mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;
mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;}
@page WordSection1
{size:595.0pt 842.0pt;
margin:72.0pt 90.0pt 72.0pt 90.0pt;
mso-header-margin:35.4pt;
mso-footer-margin:35.4pt;
mso-paper-source:0;}
div.WordSection1
{page:WordSection1;}
-->
</style>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN-US">We very much hope you</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">'</span><span lang="EN-US">ll be
able to join us for what promises to be a rather special evening.</span></span></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH7i9BOh7svcwmaXlOuaF3wyYK3ClRyVan49bU6QlHCswea9Gq_8eqdK27ea1kv1BBEFUQGyoAeflD1AhKIySBOUsxkOhzjes7OopKx99UYfMbPa0pq5wPlBJP_LbPBez79V67012ZCACg/s1600/Leith+Festival+2019+branding.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="311" data-original-width="819" height="121" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH7i9BOh7svcwmaXlOuaF3wyYK3ClRyVan49bU6QlHCswea9Gq_8eqdK27ea1kv1BBEFUQGyoAeflD1AhKIySBOUsxkOhzjes7OopKx99UYfMbPa0pq5wPlBJP_LbPBez79V67012ZCACg/s320/Leith+Festival+2019+branding.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";"><style>
<!--
/* Font Definitions */
@font-face
{font-family:"MS 明朝";
panose-1:0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0;
mso-font-charset:128;
mso-generic-font-family:roman;
mso-font-format:other;
mso-font-pitch:fixed;
mso-font-signature:1 134676480 16 0 131072 0;}
@font-face
{font-family:"Cambria Math";
panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;
mso-font-charset:0;
mso-generic-font-family:auto;
mso-font-pitch:variable;
mso-font-signature:-536870145 1107305727 0 0 415 0;}
@font-face
{font-family:Cambria;
panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;
mso-font-charset:0;
mso-generic-font-family:auto;
mso-font-pitch:variable;
mso-font-signature:-536870145 1073743103 0 0 415 0;}
/* Style Definitions */
p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
{mso-style-unhide:no;
mso-style-qformat:yes;
mso-style-parent:"";
margin:0cm;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
mso-pagination:widow-orphan;
font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Cambria;
mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria;
mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-fareast-font-family:"MS 明朝";
mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;
mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;}
.MsoChpDefault
{mso-style-type:export-only;
mso-default-props:yes;
font-family:Cambria;
mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria;
mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-fareast-font-family:"MS 明朝";
mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;
mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;}
@page WordSection1
{size:595.0pt 842.0pt;
margin:72.0pt 90.0pt 72.0pt 90.0pt;
mso-header-margin:35.4pt;
mso-footer-margin:35.4pt;
mso-paper-source:0;}
div.WordSection1
{page:WordSection1;}
-->
</style></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<style>
<!--
/* Font Definitions */
@font-face
{font-family:"MS 明朝";
panose-1:0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0;
mso-font-charset:128;
mso-generic-font-family:roman;
mso-font-format:other;
mso-font-pitch:fixed;
mso-font-signature:1 134676480 16 0 131072 0;}
@font-face
{font-family:"Cambria Math";
panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;
mso-font-charset:0;
mso-generic-font-family:auto;
mso-font-pitch:variable;
mso-font-signature:-536870145 1107305727 0 0 415 0;}
@font-face
{font-family:Cambria;
panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;
mso-font-charset:0;
mso-generic-font-family:auto;
mso-font-pitch:variable;
mso-font-signature:-536870145 1073743103 0 0 415 0;}
/* Style Definitions */
p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
{mso-style-unhide:no;
mso-style-qformat:yes;
mso-style-parent:"";
margin:0cm;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
mso-pagination:widow-orphan;
font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Cambria;
mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria;
mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-fareast-font-family:"MS 明朝";
mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;
mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;}
.MsoChpDefault
{mso-style-type:export-only;
mso-default-props:yes;
font-family:Cambria;
mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria;
mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-fareast-font-family:"MS 明朝";
mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;
mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;}
@page WordSection1
{size:612.0pt 792.0pt;
margin:72.0pt 90.0pt 72.0pt 90.0pt;
mso-header-margin:36.0pt;
mso-footer-margin:36.0pt;
mso-paper-source:0;}
div.WordSection1
{page:WordSection1;}
-->
</style></div>
CultFusionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10447115950879638503noreply@blogger.com0