Callander Poetry Weekend 6-8 September 2013, basic programme

* For details of our Edinburgh Taster reading, 8 pm Tuesday 13 August please scroll down to foot of this page *

Here are the dates and a basic programme for Callander Poetry Weekend 2013. There is much more to come, but this gives a basic structure on which we will build. You can also book your slot to read for 10 or 15 minutes on any of the 3 days.
All poetry lovers are welcome at this annual 3 day get-together and all it costs you is getting to Callander and maybe a B&B so put it in your diaries! 2.45 pm - 4 pm poets' readings.

Friday 6 Sept
Arrivals of contingent from Chester poets, and many others from all over Scotland, Newcastle, Devon, Wales and other locations. Opening party, book launch: Lucinda Carey: Faint Remains of Existence (Indigo Dreams Press)
Judith Taylor and A.C. Clarke will give a talk on early Scots and early English translations of the Aeneid.

Saturday 7 Sept. Programme in the Kirk Hall. from 10 am to 1 pm Poets' readings with Ian Blake and Margaret Gillies Brown. Tables available for sale and display of publications.
2pm Brian Johnstone: The Fields of War, from the Great War to Bosnia. A presentation of poems and a bit of talk.

Saturday evening in bookshop: Ten Blake Songs by Ralph Vaughan Williams, with Mandy MacDonald (voice ) and Margaret Christie (Oboe).
Chrys Salt, launch: Home front/Front Line , Roncadora Press. and other performances.

Sunday 8 Sept: 10 a.m. Reading at the nearby Callander Friendship Garden (at the footbridge in South Church Street) which will be newly opened and will have a stepping stone for Callander Poetry Weekend among the stones for local clubs and societies. One/two poems per reader on the subjects friendship, gardens or Callander.
11.00 in bookshop, poetry discussion. subject to be decided but the present contenders are a) war, storytelling and poetry, or b) poetry and readership.
Sunday pm. poets' readings in garden if fine.

Enquiries or to book your reading, please email sallyevans 35 at gmail dot com

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2011 - EARLY MORNING CIGARETTE - CALLANDER

Standing outside the Dreadnought Hotel,
mist is hanging between Earth and tips of Craigs,
and the just discernable trees with pointy fingers.
In a hazy-blue sky
clouds are like tiny pink petals of roses.

A lady is smoking - laboriously.
she tells me she fell heavily onto
the pavement the night before.
Her lower teeth are loose.

I point to the beauty and mystery all
around us - she agrees;
and tell her how I had heard
the night before, an owl hooting
in the stillness.
Inappropriate perhaps…

Later I know
I will hear, beauty, mystery, laughter
in Sally and Ian's bookshop,
as the many poets read their work.

But for now we smile,
and I return to the breakfast dining room.

Maureen Weldon

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Poetry Scotland   
EDINBURGH READING

Tuesday 13 August 2013

at the PERSEVERE

Easter Road, 8pm

A TASTER FOR
Callander Poetry Weekend

with Brian Johnstone,
Colin Will

Sally Evans, Ian Blake,
Morelle Smith
Tracey S Rosenberg

ending with OPEN MIC

ALL WELCOME