Poetry readings

3rd April 2023, 5.15-6.30pm Alexander Dickow reading will include excerpts from Déblais (w/English translations), Caramboles in both languages, Appétits/Appetites in both languages, Un grenier in French only, as well as excerpts from unpublished work in English (from two works: Duet With Commentary, and Hob’s Labor, two narrative works in verse). Alexander Dickow is a poet and … Read more

Thursday 10th March 2022, 6pm, Lecture Theatre School 3, St Salvator’s Quad Decomposition Apricots of Donbas Translated from the Ukrainian by Oksana Maksymchuk and Max Rosochinsky The Centre for Poetic Innovation, in collaboration with the Centre for Russian, Soviet, Central and Eastern European Studies at the University of St Andrews & the Ukrainian Society at … Read more

23rd November 2022, 6.30-8.00pm, School 3, St Salvator Quad in partnership with the Centre for Critical & Creative Cultures (University of Dundee) Lisa Robertson is a poet, essayist and translator, whose work moves between poetry, prose, philosophy and visual arts. In 2004 she moved from Vancouver to France where she has been living since then. … Read more

12th October 2022, 6-7.30pm, School 2, St Salvator Quad Vahid’s reading will be followed by the screening of a short video interview with the poet and questions will be invited from the floor. Vahid Davar is the author of two highly acclaimed volumes of poetry published in his native Iran. Since his migration to the UK … Read more

27th April 2022, 5.15-6.45pm Professor Anahid Nersessian’s Keats’s Odes has been called “a radical and unforgettable reading” of Keats’s poetry, earning rave reviews in publications like the TLS, the Washington Post, the Nation, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and the Boston Globe, which named it one of the Best Books of 2021. Nersessian collects and elucidates each of the odes and … Read more

Wednesday 8th December 2021, 5.15-6.45pm, Byre Theatre “It was lovely to hear the Gaelic…” Pàdraig MacAoidh will discuss his own work as a poet and editor, and address the questions of what it means to write – and read – Gaelic poetry in contemporary Scotland, and the bridges between Gaelic poetry and other European literatures. … Read more

Tuesday 3rd November 2020, 7-8.30pm Jocelyn Saidenberg is a writer, educator, and performer based in the Bay Area. Her recent books include: kith & kin (The Elephants, 2018), Dead Letter (Roof Books, 2014), and Negativity (Atelos Press, 2007). In her work she wagers that poetry has the capacity to open up imaginative, psychic, and structural … Read more

1st April 2020, 6pm ‘It’s a strange thing to be a poet’ Co-hosted by Byre World Miguel d’Ors is one of Spain’s foremost contemporary poets. He has published 13 books of poetry, which have recently been collected in the volume Poesías completas 2019. Varied and diverse in terms of its themes, tones, influences and approaches ­­(albeit, … Read more

10th March 2019, 1-2pm Town Hall, Queens Gdns – Council Chamber We were delighted to support the Palestinian Poetry Showcase Palestinian poet born in Damascus, Ghayath Almadhoun, and his translator, Catherine Cobham, read poems from Adrenalin (Action Books, 2017. Mustafa Abu Sneineh read some of his poems published in A Blade of Grass (Smokestacks books, … Read more

11th May 2018, 5-7pm Gateway Boardroom, Gateway Building, St Andrews Followed by a round table with Robert Crawford Anna Crowe & Peter Mackay Chaired by Jordi Larios