Poetry readings

6-7.30 pm, 23 February 2024, Parliament Hall How Do We Talk About Knives. Contemporary writers in Scotland on names, language and identity (ed. Samina Chadhry, Marcas Mac an Tuairneir, Rebecca Sharp, Matecznik Press, 2023) is a new anthology of works by 20 contemporary writers in Scotland, exploring their own names, the experience and stories that … Read more

25 October 2023, 5.30-7pm, Bute Building, C42 – Lecture Theatre D Poets from Scotland and England who identify with the Hong Kong Chinese British diaspora read their poems. The poets Tim Tim Cheng, Anna Cheung, Sean Wai Keung, Wendy Law and Jennifer Wong will read from their recent work. The evening will highlight the 2023 … Read more

Eleni Kefala and Peter Constantine with Elodie Laügt in collaboration with Byre World 20 September 2023, 6.30pm – Byre Theatre Time Stitches by Eleni Kefala is a poetry book about roots and uprooting, personal and collective history in a broken time, and the power of poetry to stitch together the threads of our past and future. … Read more

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Caramboles in both languages, Appétits/Appetites in both languages, Un grenier in French only, as well as excerpts from unpublished work in English (from two works: Duet With Commentary, and Hob’s Labor, two narrative works in verse).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