Poetry Galore in Aberdeen
06-Sep-2011Poetry Aberdeen events in New Words 2011
Thursdays 15, 22 & 29 September 2011
6.30pm
Books and Beans, Aberdeen
Admission free
In September, Poetry Aberdeen presents three events at Books and Beans as part of the New Words 2011 festival.
Thursday 15 September
In Defence of Protozoans
Stuart B. Campbell
Stuart B. Campbell lives in Portsoy on the Moray Firth. He has published four collections of poetry; his most recent, In Defence of Protozoans (Dionysia Press, Edinburgh) came out in June this year; he also regularly reviews of new poetry.
Guest poets will include Catriona Yule.
Thursday 22 September
The Blue Remembered Hills
The past recalled in memoir and poetry to musical accompaniment
Brian Farrington will entertain with readings from his recently published memoir, A Rich Soup with Additional Material. Supporting poets will perform poems evoking their own remembrance of times past. And the music will play on.
Thursday 29 September
9/11-TEN
Ten poems by ten local writers on the tenth year since the atrocity
Poems by Keith Murray, Sheena Blackhall, Bernard Briggs, Andrew Milne, Roger Barnett, Olivia McMahon, Sheena M. Leith, Gerard Rochford, Jim Murphy and Eddie Gibbons.
Commemorative chapbook published by Malfranteaux Concepts.
See www.poetryaberdeen.co.uk for details, and see www.newwords.co.uk for the full festival programme
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