John Glenday will lead our first writing workshop of the new season, on Friday 17th October, from 10.30-12.30.
The workshop is free but spaces are limited so must be booked in advance. Please book your free ticket via our online ticketing system below.
John Glenday is one of Scotland’s foremost prize-winning lyric poets. His themes cover the sea, the sky; light and its absence; the spirit in the secular age; our natural and human ecologies, how they interact, and the states that arise from the simple contemplation of the earth. He is also a wonderful poet of familial and romantic love, as well as a sly humourist and satirist.
John is the author of four collections. ‘The Apple Ghost’ (Peterloo Poets 1989) won a Scottish Arts Council Book Award; ‘Undark’ (Peterloo Poets 1995) was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and ‘Grain’ (Picador 2010) was shortlisted for both the Ted Hughes Award and the Griffin International Poetry Prize. His most recent collection, ‘The Golden Mean’ (Picador 2015) was shortlisted for the Saltire Scottish Poetry Book of the Year.
John will also read a selection of his own work at our Poetry Evening on Thursday 16th October, at 7.30pm. There’s no need to book ahead, just come along and enjoy the evening. Free and all are welcome.
And a save the date for your diary! Scotland’s new Makar, Peter MacKay, will be reading his poems on Wednesday 19th November at 7.30pm, as part of Taigh Chearsabhagh’s Book Week Scotland celebrations.
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