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Schools and reading groups – take up our World Cup 2018 poetry challenge
The FIFA World Cup takes place in June and July this year. The tournament brings people from across the globe together to enjoy the skills of the players and the excitement of the competition. There...
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Community taking action to help refugees
A special evening of art, poetry and music, to help refugees, is being held at Northfield Willowbrae Community Centre on Saturday 28 November from 6.30 – 9 pm. At the event, craft and artworks,...
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Neu! Reekie!’s Burns Belter
More sedate and quieter than any other Neu Reekie I have attended before now, the stage was graced with Craig Lithgow, a youthful local lad from Kinnesswood. Known for his talents with previous band,...
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Pen Reid: InValid*****
‘Our song began by a loch…the fish lay still listening to our words’ (Awakening) InValid, artist and poet Pen Reid’s new pamphlet, tells the story of a marriage – hers. It begins with the first...
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National Poetry Day is back –“Say it with a poem”
The 22nd annual National Poetry Day will take place on Thursday 6 October 2016, promising a mass break-out of poetry and verse in venues and public spaces all around the UK. Each year schools, groups...
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An Evening with ‘Umbrellas of Edinburgh’
‘so many people come to Edinburgh… and they go back with a bit of Edinburgh in their hearts.’ (Janice Forsyth) The brief to the writers was simple: choose a location in Edinburgh and write about it....
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Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 – Queer Words
Stand-up comedy and poetry meets dance theatre in an outspoken slice of pride, hope, activism, and courage At an open mic poetry toxic ideals and a crisis of masculinity are exposed on and off stage as...
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Russell Jones: Blue Cross’s first Pet Poet Laureate
Edinburgh resident Russell Jones is a prize-winning writer, editor and published poet. He’s a novelist with a PhD in Creative Writing, he helps to run Shoreline of Infinity’s Event Horizon science...
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Popular CAJUN Combo Turns NASTY for Halloween
Poetry Circus and The Jennifer Ewan Band join forces at Woodland Creatures in Leith, with a brand new Halloween cabaret that takes music and spoken word into darker places than they have previously...
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Central Library adviser gets poetry award
Central Library adviser, Stewart Sanderson, has been awarded the Jessie Kesson Fellowship award 2019 for his poetry. Established in 2009 by Moniack Mhor Writers’ Centre, the Jessie Kesson Fellowship...
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