Lief: Imogen Stirling, Ash Dickinson and Mhairi Owens
2nd of June at 7pm. A night of poetry readings with a focus not just on the
work of the poets themselves, but the poems and ideas that influenced
them. Hear three of Scotland's finely-tuned wordsmiths reading from their
new collections and also introducing us to the poems they've found along
the way. These new collections will be showcased with signed copies for
sale on the night-
Imogen Stirling- Love The Sinner (Verve Poetry
Press, 2022)
Mhairi Owens- Nine Notes on Slippage (Templar Poetry, 2022)
Ash
Dickinson- Instructions For Outlaws (Burning Eye Books, 2022)
Imogen
Stirling
Performance poet Imogen Stirling has performed her work
extensively around the UK and Europe, with partners including Sofar
Sounds, BBC Scotland, Latitude Festival, Lindisfarne Festival, Neu!
Reekie! and Aye! Write. She can currently be seen on Sky Arts'
BAFTA-winning show Life & Rhymes where she performed alongside Benjamin
Zephaniah and Hollie McNish. Imogen was the inaugural Writer-in-Residence
for Paisley Book Festival 2021 and is currently leading Wigtown Book
Festival's youth programme. She was recently awarded ‘Artist of the Year
2021’ (Scottish Emerging Theatre Awards/National Theatre of Scotland). Her
new collection Love The Sinner, is a modern retelling of the seven deadly
sins.
‘the work of a lyrical genius’ BENJAMIN ZEPHANIAH
Mhairi
Owens
Mhairi Owens is a recent winner of the Rhina Espaillat Poetry
Award and Wigtown Poetry Prize. She lives in Pittenweem, Fife, where she
works for a community addictions service as well as The Scottish Fisheries
Museum. She writes in both English and Scots, and has appeared in a wild
variety of places. Nine Notes on Slippage is the first full collection of
her writing and has already won the Straid Collection Award.
Ash
Dickinson
Ash Dickinson has been full-time as a poet since 2008. He is
a multiple slam champion, including Edinburgh, Cheltenham, the Museum of
Scotland and BBC Radio. He has performed in Australia, Canada, USA, Spain,
Jordan, the Czech Republic and Germany, and headlined shows and festivals
throughout the UK. Ash is in great demand to run writing workshops in
schools, galleries, museums, prisons and with writing groups. His debut
collection, Slinky Espadrilles was the very first title published by
Burning Eye Books. His second major collection, Strange Keys, came out in
2016 and a collection for younger years, Show Cats In Transit, followed in
2019.
“Impressive wordplay” – The Times
“Clever
And Funny” – The Scotsman
“Brilliantly surreal
invention…fabulous poems” – Edinburgh Evening News
www.ashdickinson.com
Tickets
£5 in advance, £6 on the door. Show will last around 90 minutes with
intervals.
