A great night last night at Speakin Weird, the new regular spoken-word Open Mic at Underdog. Here I am, looking very noir and elegant courtesy of Julian Maunder at Spud ‘n’ Duck photography

Keep an eye on Facebook for Speakin’ Weird events

https://www.facebook.com/speakingweird/

Very pleased to have two poems, Follower and Garden Planning, in Issue 40 of Brittle Star.

There has been a regular poetry night at Books and Beans since 2003 when it became the venue for evenings run by the Dead Good Poets group. More recently, the night has been run by poet Olivia McMahon and from summer 2017 Bernard Briggs, Richie Brown and I will be organising it.

It’s the last Thursday of every month (except the summer break), from 6.30 – 8.00 pm. We have guest poets from near and sometimes far, plus our regular Open Mic. Entry is free, but contributions are welcome as they help us pay our poets’ expenses. Thanks, as always, to Craig Wilcox and his staff for giving us such a great venue.

Find us on Facebook, or just come along for the poetry and a nice spicy chai latte!

https://www.facebook.com/poetryatbooksandbeans/

Coming soon – She Said He Said I Said, New Writing Scotland 35, in which I have two poems (Fanfare and Resurrection), in what looks like very good company indeed. If you’re not an ASLS subscriber the collection can be ordered from the link above

Very pleased to have a poem, A political prehistory of my father, in ARTEMISpoetry 18