We well and truly launched Getting by in Tligolian last week, with a live event in Galway on Monday and an online one on Tuesday
Here are the videos of the Q&A between author Roppotucha Greenberg and editor Cherry Potts.
The City:
The Language:
The Time-Travelling Trains:
impact of time travel on mourning:
getting the end right:
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Here are the final poems from the online launch for The Arctic Diaries by Melissa Davies from back in April. Explore Fleinvær, off the north coast of Norway in poems.
The Arctic Diaries
Melissa is taking part in Edinburgh BookFringe, reading and talking about The Arctic Diaries, at Typewronger bookshop on Monday 28th August at 6pm get your tickets!
They Call Him the Salmon King of Norway
Seaweed
Treasures from the first boat
Bird Wife
Lookout Men
Værøy
Bird wife
Co-editor Jeremy Dixon introduces the submission call for Joy//Us, our anthology of poetry celebrating queer joy, and reads a couple of poems that fit the theme, with a short follow up from Cherry Potts about what she is (and isn’t) looking for. If you are thinking of submitting please do so via Submittable before 11th October, and you are welcome to join our free workshops on line in September. Please spread the word!
Queer poet Jeremy Dixon quizzes fellow Arachne poets, Kate Foley and Jane Aldous for the online launch of their new poetry collections, Saved to Cloud, and More Patina Than Gleam, on process, inspiration, being ‘vintage lesbians’ and what their mothers would have thought.
Are you an LGBTQ+ poet? Inspired by our gang of queer poets?
We have a submission call for Joy//Us, our LGBTQ+ poetry of Queer Joy anthology right… here on Submittable
Here’s the second half of the Q&A from the online launch for The Arctic Diaries by Melissa Davies from back in April. Explore Fleinvær off the north coast of Norway in poems. Melissa, a Cumbrian native, talks about the impact that Fleinvær has had on her writing and her life, complete with map and live feed to the island! The poems read at the launch will follow…
The Arctic Diaries
Melissa is taking part in Edinburgh BookFringe, reading and talking about The Arctic Diaries, at Typewronger bookshop on Monday 28th August at 6pm get your tickets!
Here are the first poems from the online launch for The Arctic Diaries by Melissa Davies from back in April. Explore Fleinvær, off the north coast of Norway in poems.
The Arctic Diaries
Melissa is taking part in Edinburgh BookFringe, reading and talking about The Arctic Diaries, at Typewronger bookshop on Monday 28th August at 6pm get your tickets!
Collectors
Coffee
The Fisherman remembers a Boy Disappeared
Halibut
Guardians
Fleinvaer is Made up of 365 Islands
Vanishing Act
Another slow start on my part – here’s the first half of the Q&A from the online launch for The Arctic Diaries by Melissa Davies from back in April. Explore Fleinvaer of the north coast of Norway in poems. Melissa, a Cumbrian native, talks about the place, people and stories that inspired the book. The rest will follow, when it’s been captioned!
The Arctic Diaries
Melissa is taking part in Edinburgh BookFringe, reading and talking about The Arctic Diaries, at Typewronger bookshop on Monday 28th August at 6pm get your tickets!
I’ve been woefully slow to get the videos up for all the launches this year, but captioning takes an age, and there’s been a LOT happening, I still have miles of footage to work through!
So here, at last, is the second half of the videos for Kate Foley’s launch of Saved to Cloud at Keats House (to whom thanks, for their continued support)
A marvellous mix of observation of human frailty, and anger at what we are doing to the planet.
Thanks to Anne Stewart for taking over videoing when my phone decided to play up!
There is no Planet B
Tree Speak
Toolbox
Slow Water
Rosebay Willowherb
Lines
Limping
Learning a Language
Politics
I’ve been woefully slow to get the videos up for all the launches this year, but captioning takes an age, and there’s been a LOT happening, I still have miles of footage to work through!
So here, at last, is the first half of the videos for Kate Foley’s launch of Saved to Cloud at Keats House (to whom thanks, for their continued support)
A marvellous mix of observation of human frailty, and anger at what we are doing to the planet.
Thanks to Anne Stewart for taking over videoing when my phone decided to play up!
Education of the Heart
At Cafe Welling
Repeated Patterns
Our Old Lady
on being 80 plus
In the Cave at Niaux
Apocalypse
Jane Aldous‘s latest poetry collection, More Patina than Gleam, is a strange book – it tells interlinking love stories set in Jane’s home town of Edinburgh, and was inspired by Jane’s 70th birthday, and something her mother said when Jane was a child.
The 70th birthday link was to write 70 poems – sonnets, but Jane’s mother’s input was to say that she often thought she should have run away from her marriage when she was young, and take Jane with her.
From this Jane creates the story of Linda, a runaway, and her daughter, Ange, arriving in Edinburgh from England in the early 60’s to become Lady’s Companion to Elsie,
an elderly, refined woman in a house that is held together by will-power and love – more patina than gleam.
When Jane talks about the book, one of the loves she never mentions is her own – for Edinburgh. Her love of the place shines out from every page, and I suspect she’s never noticed it, so ingrained it is.
Some of the places she talks about in the poems are long gone, or wilt behind hoardings, but on the afternoon of Thursday 10th August, Jane is taking people on a poetry walk around some of the locations that feature in the poems, the Royal Observatory, Blackford Hill and Pond, Observatory Road, finishing with tea at West Mains Allotments…
A novel way to experience a book!
Tickets (free, or you can pre-order a book to pick up on the day, or have it sent to you) via eventbrite
