Seahorse Christmas Party
Tuesday 19 December, 2024 Avant Garde, 34-44 King St, Glasgow G1 5QT A party night featuring knock-out readers: Biff Smith, Chris Dolan, Polly Bee, Allan Gaw, Donna Campbell, Jenifer Harley, Martin Goldie and Graham Fulton plus raffle, cut-price books. Music from The fun-filled Carlton Jug Band. Event on Facebook
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Friday, December 6, 2024 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Christmas in Glasgow, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers
FALL – a Film Poem Sampler
Friday, December 13, 2024 Room 213, St Andrews Building, University of Glasgow, School of Education, 11 Eldon Street Glasgow G3 6NH Free event – Reserve at spot at Eventbrite FALL embraces the rough-hewn, DIY, low-fi alongside digital cut-glass aesthetics. Selected film poems will be screened at University of Glasgow on 13th December 2024, in a […]
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Wednesday, December 4, 2024 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Creative Conversations: Louise Welsh
Creative Conversations: Louise Welsh Monday 25 November 2024, 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. University Memorial Chapel, University Avenue Glasgow G12 8QQ Louise Welsh is an award-winning author of nine novels, most recently To the Dogs, a campus novel. The Cutting Room, her debut novel, won the Crime Writers’ Association John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger Award and the […]
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Saturday, November 23, 2024 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Scotland – Independence Day by David Lee Knight
Scotland – Independence Day Scottish Independence is finally here. Well at least, in fiction, in the shape of David Lee Knight’s recently published novel Scotland – Independence Day. When the protagonists in this intriguing thriller come to realise that independence is not achievable by political means alone, they embark on a far riskier journey into […]
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Wednesday, November 20, 2024 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Keep Talking – Literary Charity Evening Glasgow
Tuesday 19 November, 2024, 7.30 p.m. With Jim Carruth CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, G2 3JD Keep Talking – An Evening With Some Of Scotland’s Leading Writers A special literary charity evening in Glasgow featuring some of Scotland’s leading writers for a 24/7 help line that offers a free health counselling support for the farming community […]
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Marjorie Lotfi Creative Conversations
Monday 18 November, 2024 – 1 – 2 p.m. University Chapel, Glasgow University Memorial Chapel University Avenue Glasgow G12 8QQ Marjorie Lotfi is the author of The Wrong Person to Ask, which was the recipient of the James Berry Poetry Prize 2021, Shortlisted for the Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection 2024 (Forward Prizes) and […]
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Sunday, November 17, 2024 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Hattie Crissell at University of Glasgow
Monday, November 11, 2024 5 – 7pm Adam Smith Business School, 2 Discovery Place Glasgow G11 6EY Hattie Crisell: Reading and in Conversation Hattie Crissell, author of In Writing (Granta) and host of Podcast In Writing – a freelance writer based in London, who produces and hosts the podcast In Writing with Hattie Crisell, interviewing […]
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Sunday, November 10, 2024 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Shelagh Campbell, Creative Conversations
Monday, November 11, 2024 · 1 – 2pm GMT University Chapel, Glasgow University Memorial Chapel University Avenue Glasgow G12 8QQ Shelagh Campbell is from Glasgow and writes fiction for adults and children in Gaelic. She was selected as the Scottish Book Trust’s Gaelic New Writer Awardee for 2022. She won Gaelic Literature Awards for Best […]
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Mirrorball Showcase at CCA
8th November, 2024, 7 p.m. – 9 p.m. St Mungo’s Mirrorball present A wonderful evening of poetry Award winning poet Niall Campbell is joined by Ellen McAteer, Cáit O’Neill McCullagh and Peter Clive. Tickets £7 – at the door. (Doors open 6.30 p.m.) Centre for Contemporary Arts, The Clubroom, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD […]
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Monday, October 28, 2024 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Double Book Launch: Ellen McAteer and Juana Adcock
Tuesday 5 November, 2024, 8 p.m. Tell It Slant, Locavore, 429 Victoria Road, Glasgow G42 7SA Ellen McAteer and Juana Adcock will launch their books: My Deep and Gorgeous Thirst (Ellen’s first full collection) plus I Sugar The Bones An evening of poetry and music with guests: Henry Bell, Ceylan Hay, Amy Rafferty, Jim McAteer […]
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Moira McPartlin at Aberfoyle and Strathard Book Festival 2024
Saturday 2 November, 2024 – 1 – 2 p.m. iCentre, Aberfoyle and Strathard Book Festival, Main Street, Aberfoyle, Stirlingshire, FK8 3UQ Moira McPartlin recently released Before Now: Memoir of a Toerag – written entirely in the Fife tongue. Set in the 1990s in a small village, it tells the story of a single-parent family struggling […]
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Sunday, October 27, 2024 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers
Creative Conversations: Jem Stout
Monday 4 November, 2024 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. University of Glasgow, Memorial Chapel, Glasgow University Memorial Chapel University Avenue Glasgow G12 8QQ A Special Creative Conversations in Collaboration with Strathclyde University’s Creative Writing Programme with Jen Stout. Jen will be in conversation with Rodge Glass. Jen Stout is a Scottish freelance journalist who has […]
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Saturday, October 26, 2024 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Midsummer Song: Book Launch and Discussion with Maria Sledmere
Tuesday, 22 October, 2024 at 6 p.m. Advanced Research Centre (ARC), Room 237C, 11 Chapel Lane Glasgow G11 6EW Part of the Thinking Culture collection Join Maria Sledmere in conversation with Carl Lavery and Colin Herd for the launch of Midsummer Song, presented by Thinking Culture. A celebration of Midsummer Song (Hypercritique), a book by Maria Sledmere […]
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Sunday, October 20, 2024 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Creative Conversations: Vik Shirley
Monday 21 October, 2024 – 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. Glasgow University Memorial Chapel University Avenue Glasgow G12 8QQ Vik Shirley is a poet, writer, editor, critic & academic from Bristol, England, now living in Edinburgh, Scotland. Her collection, The Continued Closure of the Blue Door (HVTN), her pamphlets, Corpses (Sublunary Editions), Grotesquerie for the Apocalypse (Beir Bua) and Poets (The Red Ceilings […]
Creative Conversations, University of Glasgow
Free & Open to the Public University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ Creative Conversations Autumn /Winter 2024 Shelagh Campbell, Creative Conversations 11 November 1 p.m. University of Glasgow Chapel Shelagh Campbell, Creative Conversations Vik Shirley Monday 21 October Creative Conversations: Vik Shirley Carrie Etter – Monday 30 September, 2024 – 1 p.m. – […]
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Saturday, October 19, 2024 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more, Zoom and online events
Book Launch: ‘Breathe In’ by Chris Dolan
Tuesday, 29 October, 2024 7 p.m. for 7.30 p.m. Avant Garde, 34-44 King St, Glasgow G1 5QT Guest Readers Martin Goldie, David Hayman and Donna Matthew Music by John Ross and Kirsten Jackson “My first wee book of poems, bits and pieces from over 30 years of writing. A gallimaufry if ever there was one.” […]
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Tuesday, October 15, 2024 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Creative Conversations: Laura Wittner and Juana Adcock
Monday, 14 October, 2024, 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. University Chapel, University of Glasgow, G12 8QQ Translation of the Route is the first collection by award-winning Argentine poet Laura Wittner to be available in English translation. In poems that are precise, frank and finely tuned, Wittner explores the specificities of daily life – thunder at night, […]
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Saturday, October 12, 2024 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Neil Young: Poetry Collection Launch
Tuesday, 15 October, 2024, 7.00 for 7.30 p.m. Neil Young reads from this essentially intimate collection.on family and community. The Song She Didn’t Sing – Seahorse Publications Avant Garde, 34-44 King St, Glasgow G1 5QT Guest Readers Ðonna Campbell, Linda Jackson, Lesley Benzie, Peter Clive and Hugh Mcmillan Musical Guests Carol Jamnejad and Iman.
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Wednesday, October 9, 2024 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Lara Pawson at Creative Conversations
7 October, 2024, 1 – 2 p.m. Glasgow University Memorial Chapel, University Avenue Glasgow G12 8QQ Free Tickets at Eventbrite Lara Pawson is the author of three books: Spent Light (CB Editions, 2024), This is the Place to Be (CB Editions 2016), and In the Name of the People: Angola’s Forgotten Massacre (IB Taurus 2014). In 2017, This is the Place to […]
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Friday, October 4, 2024 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Book Launch: Midnight and Blue, Ian Rankin
Tuesday 15 October, 2024, 6.30 – 7.30 p.m. Aye Write event to celebrate the publication of Midnight and Blue, the brand new John Rebus thriller from the iconic Number One bestselling author Sir Ian Rankin. Old Fruitmarket, 100 Candleriggs, Glasgow G1 1NQ John Rebus spent his life as a detective putting Edinburgh’s most deadly criminals […]
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Wednesday, October 2, 2024 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Donegal Diaspora in Scotland
Donegal County Council are hosting a series of events in Glasgow and Edinburgh on 3rd & 4th October, they are looking for information from the Donegal diaspora based in Scotland. They are gathering photos & memories of Donegal people who worked in Scotland between 1940 & 1990 for a new exhibition in Letterkenny in 2025. […]
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Tuesday, October 1, 2024 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Community event, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Free Events, Pat's Home Page Blog
Mary Irvine: My Greek Love Affair
I’ve had an affinity with Greece since childhood, Ancient, Classical and Modern. The first time I flew into Athens and saw an illuminated Acropolis I felt I was coming home. I later tried to express this feeling. Not sure I succeeded. Re- Birth The first time I saw her I knew I’d come home. […]
Book Launch: Loving Alasdair by May Hooper
Tuesday 8 October, 2024, 6.30 p.m. – 8.00 p.m. New Memoir in the VOICES series Loving Alasdair – the 39 Years of My Life with Alasdair Gray May Hooper’s fascinating memoir about her long and close association with Glasgow writer and artist, Alasdair Gray – wacky, romantic, unrequited, boozy, open, compassionate, loving, a different kind […]
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Sunday, September 29, 2024 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Creative Conversations: Carrie Etter
Monday, 30 September, 2024 at 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. University of Glasgow, Memorial Chapel, University Avenue Glasgow G12 8QQ Carrie Etter is a celebrated poet, anthologist and academic whose publications include Subterfuge of the Unrequitable: Potes & Poets Press, 1998, Yet: Leafe Press, 2008,The Tethers: Seren Books, 2009, The Son: Oystercatcher Press, 2009, Divining for Starters: Shearsman Books, […]
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Saturday, September 28, 2024 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Book Launch: A Case of Matricide by Graeme Macrae Burnet
Thursday 3rd October 2024 7 p.m. – 9 p.m. Waterstones, 153 – 157 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3EW From the twice-Booker nominated author of Case Study and His Bloody Project comes the final dazzling instalment in his Gorski Trilogy: A Case of Matricide. Join us for the launch of this extraordinary achievement as Graeme chats all things […]
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Thursday, September 26, 2024 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Books at the Botanics
Friday 27 September – Monday 30 September, 2024 Books at the Botanics Weekend Book Fair 10 a.m. till 5.00 p.m. in the Hopkirk Building (behind the main range), Glasgow Botanic Gardens, Hopkirk Building, 730 Great Western Rd, Glasgow G12 0UE Card and cash payments accepted www.booksatthebotanics.co.uk Books at the Botanics on Facebook
A History of Glasgow’s Byres Road by Barclay Price
Byres Road is often seen as the main thoroughfare and the beating heart of Glasgow’s West End. You will enjoy learning of its history as Barclay Price explains how it evolved from a dirt track, recounts his Barclay’s personal memories and reveals some hidden gems. The book also contains many wonderful photographs Byres Road’s ‘development […]
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Wednesday, September 25, 2024 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Old Partick – Lewis Hutton
‘Old Partick’ by Lewis Hutton provides extensive information about the history of this still vibrant part of Glasgow’s West End. It’s a book that will provide many hours of pleasure with its wonderful photographs (55) of bygone days and fascinating historical details. To avoid duplication with other Stenlake books, this one does not cover the […]
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Book Launch: Medicine, Money and Murder by Anne Pettigrew
Thursday 3 October, 2024, 7 p.m. Waterstones, 351-355 Byres Rd, Glasgow G12 8AU Medicine, Money and Murder follows two female Glasgow medical students on summer placement in 1971 New Jersey, USA. It is Anne Pettigrew’s fourth literary medical crime novel, a thought-provoking tale of cultural clashes, ethical dilemmas, romance and humour that emphasises how fortunate […]
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Tuesday, September 24, 2024 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Pat's Home Page Blog, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Creative Conversations: Andrés N. Ordorica
Monday 23 September 2024, 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel, University Avenue, West Quadrangle, Glasgow G12 8QQ Andrés N. Ordorica is a queer Latinx writer based in Edinburgh. Drawing on his family’s immigrant history and third culture upbringing, his writing maps the journey of diaspora and unpacks what it means to […]
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Saturday, September 21, 2024 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Pat's Home Page Blog, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
