Poetry readings

Tuesday, 18 November 2025, 6pm, School III Yousif Qasmiyeh & Contributors to SINK magazine Organised in collaboration with SINK magazine and the Centre for the Critical Reimagining of Human Rights

Tuesday 11th November 2025, 6:00pm-7.30pm – Lawson Lecture Room Jennifer Soong’s recent books of poetry include My Earliest Person (The Last Books, 2025), Comeback Death (Krupskaya, 2024), and Suede Mantis / Soft Rage (Black Sun Lit, 2022). In addition to her poetry, she has published essays in Critical Inquiry, Modernism/modernity, and Post45, among others. In 2025, the University of Chicago Press published her monograph Slips of … Read more

Wednesday 5 November 2025, 5.30pm-7.30pm – Lawson room Karen Solie is the author of six collections of poetry, and the recipient of awards including the Griffin Prize, the Latner Poetry Prize, a Canada Council Martyn Lynch- Staunton Award, a Chalmers Fellowship, and a 2023 Guggenheim Fellowship. A volume of selected poems, The Living Option, was … Read more

Tuesday 4 November 2025, 5.30pm-7.30pm – Lawson room St Andrews student Connor Jones lives in Edinburgh. Neutral Wisowb (Mouse Press, 2024) is their first pamphlet. Helena Fornells Nadal is a Catalan poet based in Edinburgh. She is currently engaged in research on the intersection between land politics and ecopoetics. I Could Not Ask You To (Mouse Press, 2025) … Read more

Friday 23 May 2025, 5-7pm, The Garden Seminar Room, Kennedy Hall Stephen Collis is the author of fifteen books of poetry and prose, including The Commons (2008), the BC Book Prize winning On the Material (2010), and Almost Islands: Phyllis Webb and the Pursuit of the Unwritten (2018)—all published by Talonbooks. A History of the … Read more

3 April 2025, 6-7.30pm UCO, School III Kit Fan writes poetry and fiction. His third poetry collection The Ink Cloud Reader (2023) was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and Forward Prize. His first novel is Diamond Hill (2021). He was shortlisted twice for the Guardian 4th Estate BAME Short Story Prize, and a winner of the Hong Kong University International Poetry Prize, Northern … Read more

12 March 2025, 6-7:30pm, UCO School III Laynie Browne is a poet, prose writer, artist, editor and teacher. Her recent books of poetry include: Everyone & Her Resemblances (Pamenar, 2024), Intaglio Daughters (Ornithopter 2023), Practice Has No Sequel (Pamenar 2023), Letters Inscribed in Snow (Tinderbox 2023), and Translation of the Lilies Back into Lists (Wave Books, 2022). In 2024 a solo show of her collage titled “On the Way … Read more

A Public Presentation in collaboration with the Dazzling Spark Arts Foundation 8 October, 6-8pm, UCO School 3 Internationally acclaimed poet Anton Floyd shares excerpts and stories from his remarkable collection Depositions which was recently selected by the National Library of Scotland to showcase National Poetry Day in Scotland. Already acclaimed in a multi-lingual edition, published … Read more

Wednesday 25 September, 6-8pm, Parliament Hall Philippe Beck will read a selection of poems (French with English translations), including some from his latest collection, Ryrkaïpii (Flammarion, 2023).