By fay.young on July 12, 2010
Launching Poetry in St Andrew Square two festivals ago.
Is this poetry in motion or poetry parked? Either way, the Poetry Garden will bloom for a day in Castle Street on Friday 16th July between 10 am and 3pm, with the help of a mobile library, some potted plants – and of course the [...]
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By fay.young on February 9, 2010
Spot the poetry in St Andrew Square?
Sadly, we missed the event in Leith last week when performance poet Mark Thompson carried poetry to the Library, for an evening about life and learning with adult learners and tutors from CLAN Edinburgh. But there’s still two weeks to go in the Carry a Poem campaign with free [...]
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By fay.young on June 28, 2009
here, there and gone: where?
Home is a controversial word for Iyad Hayatleh, a Palestinian poet who was born in a Syrian refugee camp. “The most controversial word of my life,” he told us. He has never been to Palestine but to mark Refugee Week, Iyad read poems about home in Arabic and English as we [...]
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By fay.young on June 17, 2009
The ‘poetry tree’ in St Andrew Square Garden
Home is a dead tree in the garden. Well, not quite so dead now that it is fluttering with poems about home to mark Refugee Week in Edinburgh.
Posted in Monthly diary, Poetry in St Andrew Square | Tagged Oxfam, Poetry garden, Poetry in St Andrew Square, Refugee Week, Scottish Poetry Library, The Welcoming
By fay.young on January 27, 2009
Suddenly out of the darkness, out of the night, there swooped something with a swish like an aeroplane. Ed Malone in the Lost World
It’s the stuff of dreams: you are travelling in time to a place where dinosaurs crash through forests of dripping trees. Ok, so The Lost World Read won’t really bring you face [...]
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By fay.young on December 17, 2008
Beautiful but cold for outdoor poetry events during the winter, fortunately there is somewhere much warmer just around the corner…
Thanks to the National Portrait Gallery, (conveniently situated in York Place) the poetry garden is coming indoors for at least some of the winter, starting with a lunchtime event on Friday 19 December between 12 and [...]
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By fay.young on October 3, 2008
Here’s an invitation you can’t refuse. Come to St Andrew Square and find a poem chosen specially for you. “It personal, it’s fast and it’s absolutely free,” says Lilias Fraser of the Scottish Poetry Library who will be one of the ‘poetry army’ celebrating National Poetry Day on Thursday 9 October in [...]
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By fay.young on September 1, 2008
Wring the Scottish rain clouds dry…Ron Butlin
Some hope. It rained of course but the sun shone too so Edinburgh’s new Makar, Ron Butlin, brought the perfect poem to launch Poetry in St Andrew Square: A Recipe for Whisky, laced with all the elements of Scotland’s weather. Come rain, hail, sleet or sun, the poetry garden [...]
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