The CSCS PG Symposium are excited to announce that our final panellist joining us at the keynote discussion on Friday 24 May will be Gerry Cambridge. The Dark Horse UofG Arts & Humanities

This has been shared a lot this week. For me, whenever I hear Borges I can't help but think of his accent being similar to the Outer Hebrides. The tender way he slightly extends the vowels, the 'r' sounds, how his 's' always seems close to 'sh'.
Oh, I love it.

Privileged to have a quiet viewing of Caravaggio’s magnificent final painting ⁦National Gallery⁩ early this morning. Hung in isolation in a darkened room, this detail shows St Ursula observing an arrow piercing her chest. I thought I might faint with the intensity of it …

Incredibly, spring has managed to find Fife too.

Really looking forward to this one from Niall Campbell in September 24. And what a great title and cover. Definitely a book to watch out for before the end of the year.

Reading with Patrick and Charles this Saturday in Paisley! See if you could make it?

Tix: renfrewshireboxoffice.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/sh…

Zoom ticket ordered and book ready for Rory Waterman launch tomorrow evening.

Hugely grateful to Stephen Sexton for taking the time to review my third and latest collection 'Swans We Cannot See' The Gallery Press for @irishtimesbooks. Here's what he had to say about it... 👇👍🙏 and I've also included the poem about the staircase that he mentions...🔨🪚🪜

Visit Parson's Field on your next trip to the Museum to scan our new QR codes and hear Ian Humphreys reading from his collection of Brontë-inspired poetry...

Take a moment to breathe in the moorland air and appreciate the natural beauty of the area 🌿

Now travelling home after a first Free Verse book fair - and so fortunate to be on a table beside the kind and enthusiastic Jess of Someone Strange. A press to support.

Was hanging out in Byron’s old Ravenna haunts last weekend. Sorry to have missed this Prof Diego Saglia

🌟 Attention poets! The 2024 Poetry London Prize is open! Prizes of £5k, £2k, & £1k, and judged by poet Hannah Sullivan, winner of the T.S. Eliot 2018. Submissions close on June 30th. Don't miss out on this opportunity to showcase your work! 🏅🖋️poetrylondon.co.uk/prize/

I recently paid extra for a printer that did NOT connect to internet and that did NOT print colour. Weird world where you happily pay more for less.

I included this little landscape The Top of the Wolds by Alfred East (1844-1917) in Wonder, the small show I’ve curated ⁦The Watt Institution⁩ Perhaps it’s the unusual viewpoint, I’m not sure, but it always evokes a sense of longing whenever I look at it …it’s beautiful..

Almost 12 years since Happy Hour, the first of my three poetry collections, was published by The Gallery Press. Here's one from it. Written at home in Crossgar one afternoon probably in 2010.

3/3 #thepoetsworkshop , my 4-week online poetry workshop starts again on Thursday 2 May
7-8.30pm
£30 a session (£120 in total)
Only 4 spaces left
All abilities welcome
[email protected] to register
Deadline to reg: Thursday 25 April
andrewjamison.co.uk for testimonials

This will be incredible. Lucky Edinburgh writers should apply. Gothenburg has a beautiful opera house right on the water - we saw a performance of Stravinsky when there - orchestra and dance. Real, true art.

Part of my life's work has been to incorporate Brannigans Roast Beef and Mustard crisps into a poem... and here it is in 'Swans We Cannot See' The Gallery Press. Is it just me or should there be more crisp flavours with mustard in them?

Running this Arvon residential course on how we connect what's inside us with what's out there in the world.
With co-tutor Shazea Quraishi and Guest Reader Glyn Maxwell - click on link for more info:
arvon.org/writing-course…

Special Magazine Editors' Panel, with Jo Clement (Dr Jo Clement) of Butcher's Dog Publishing, Lisa Kelly of Magma Poetry, and Ben Townley-Canning of fourteenpoems, chaired by Andrew Neilson of Bad Lilies.

20/04. 10:45 – 11:30. £3. Free Verse, St Columba's, SW1X 0BD.

poetrysociety.org.uk/event/free-ver…