How to get hold of Roar Stage tickets? the ABC of spoken word 27th August 2016 Stow, Scottish Borders

The very best of spoken word comes to the Borders – the Roar stage at the Stowed Out Festival Saturday 27th August brings you the ABC of spoken word from legend Sally Evans, Editor of Poetry Scotland, current Scottish Slam Champion Iona Lee and Loud Poet Katie Ailes, to ecopoet and rising star Em Strang while Solareye exhales hip hop flava from Glasgow and local rapper Husler shows a day out of Hawick is not necessarily a day wasted. Been wondering what the fuss is about? 

Tickets £12 (free all day main stage music festival thrown in) available here http://stowedoutfestival.org.uk/.

Katie Ailes (Perry Johnsson)

Oh and did we mention you can bring your kids and there is a train…

Full line-up revealed #RoarStage @Stowedoutfest August 27th 2016

The full main line-up for the spoken word Roar Stage at Stowed Out Fest is now revealed. And it is amazing. Five fabulous performers all on stage in the Borders for the first time:

Em Strang, Sally Evans, Solareye, Katie Ailes and Iona Lee.

Impossible to summarise their talents in a few word but p&g might just mention that between them they have multiple slam wins including the Scottish Slam and StAnza slam, the Scottish Book Trust New Writer Award, and have published multiple books, videos and tunes, plus performed at Aye Write, T in the Park,  Scottish Parliament, StAnza and the list goes on.

Find out how to get hold of tickets and the details of all the acts on the Main Stage too. This is just the Roar Stage line-up and there will be more acts - including space for you - find out how http://poetandgeek.blogspot.co.uk/2016/05/roar-stage-spoken-word-performance.html

Stowed Out is a cracking boutique festival just a short train ride away from anywhere in Scotland. And train and other transport methods are available if you are coming from further afield! More here bit.ly/1rw92XM

Tickets for StAnza on sale now

I have been buying my tickets.

Looking forward very much to seeing Lemn Sissay and Don Patterson on Friday night but I am also loving the German strand with events like Anna Crowe, Michael Donhauser, Odile Kennel, and Don Paterson again in a VERSschmuggel (verse smuggling) reading. I thought this would be the time I would get to hear Sean O'Brien but I have a very strong commitment to being in a forest on Sunday so that is not to be. Excellent line-up all through the festival and that is not to mention the open mics and of course just rubbing shoulders with everyone in St Andrews.

I will be reading myself alongside the fabulous Lindsay Macgregor, Em Strang and Samuel Tongue http://stanzapoetry.org/festival/events/new-writers-showcase.

Tickets available and all the interesting stuff you could possibly need here http://stanzapoetry.org/

Top tip: Oxfam on South Street do a fabulous spread of all their poetry books. Impossible to resist....

StAnza 2016 programme & new website out now

Great news as almost full details are released on St Andrew's Day. (You know they like to keep a few little surprises to whet our appetites). And I am delighted to be reading in a Scottish Book Trust New Writers' Showcase alongside the very wonderful Em Strang, Lindsay Macgregor and Samuel Tongue.

Full details here http://www.stanzapoetry.org/festival and @khursheb here http://www.stanzapoetry.org/festival/poets-artists/khursheed

New Writers Awards 2014

The line-up for this year Scottish Book Trust New Writers Awards is now official and glad to say that p&g's own Bridget Khursheed is one of the recipients. A great line up of writers including poets Em Strang, Ann Elizabeth Mackinnon and Jonathan Durie.

You can find out more here http://www.scottishbooktrust.com/blog/press-releases/2014/01/new-writers-awards-2014-announced and about the New Writers Awards here http://www.scottishbooktrust.com/writing/scottish-book-trust-training-awards/new-writers-awards

PIC - ROB MCDOUGALL