Stowed Out 2020 [Locked In]

Holiday feeling here at p&q hq. But plenty in the pipeline including performing at the splendid Stowed Out 2020 [Locked In] on the 15th August online. 

Enjoy - you can find full details here and it is free. But do think about donating via JustGiving here. All money raised goes to Tiny Changes. A community of tiny change makers working together to help young minds feel better- it is a great charity. More here.

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

Set fair for Callander Poetry Weekend, Scotland

Sally Evan the poet and editor of Poetry Scotland is the force behind the Callander Poetry Weekend. Poets come from all over to take part in this special event.

This year you can hear Elizabeth Rimmer, Sheila Templeton, Judith Taylor, Fred Beake, Colin Donati, Sheila Wakefield, Kevin Cadwallender, Ann MacKinnon, and that is pretty much just some of Day 1. Bridget Khursheed of p&g is reading at Callander this afternoon.

Alastair Cook is also talking about the making of filmpoems, Alan Gay leads a group from the Edinburgh Mandolin and Guitar Orchestra and Colin Will on sax backs Bryan Johnstone.

What is not to love. Events at King's Bookshop (open all year round) and the Kirk Hall and elsewhere all weekend. Find out more at http://www.desktopsallye.com/page22.htm

Split Screen, London, England 11th October 2013

And while we are talking about the South Bank here is another fine offering.

After more than a year of touring the provinces and poetry festivals, Split Screen finally washes up here. An evening of poetry inspired by movies and television from the anthology published by Red Squirrel Press.

Hosted by editor Andy Jackson, tonight's line-up include the wonderful Brian Johnstone, Dzifa Benson, Naomi Woddis, Paul McGrane, Helen Ivory, Martin Figura, Ira Lightman, and the inimitable Sally Evans. Poems will range from The Sweeney to The Clangers. What - as they say - is not to like. And you can go on the Tube and cross over that river in London too.

Tickets £8 from the Southbank Centre box office. The event runs from 7pm until 9pm. Enjoy!

More information available here https://www.facebook.com/events/290941471047500/?notif_t=plan_user_invited

Bewick walks to Scotland

And so our trio of related posts is complete with the title of Sally Evans' study on Thomas Bewick based on his stravaig of 1776.

The book is available for a mere £7 published by Arrowhead Press in 2004. I have a copy and it is well worth it.

More here http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/bewick.html and more on Sally herself and her latest ebook Poetic adventures in Scotland here http://desktopsallye.com/.

I hope the road will follow this river's

wooded otter pools.

 (from Sally Evans' Bewick poem Langham)

Lit & Phil

This looks a dead cool place - as mentioned in our previous post - and I immediately want to visit it.

Sadly I am speaking at a conference in Manchester (oh Manchester, so much to answer for) on Thursday and cannot make it. But I am imagine that on my next pilgrimage to Ponteland and Newcastle this ancient subscription library will be high on my list. Not least because the engraver Thomas Bewick - the poetic subject of Poetry Scotland editor Sally Evans - was once a member.

More on the glorious book matrix here http://www.litandphil.org.uk/index.shtml