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The Poetry Association of Scotland is a registered charity (SCO14388), founded in 1924 to promote public readings of the best poetry from all over the world.

Chair:  Joyce Caplan

President:

Douglas Dunn

Annual Membership of the Association costs £25, concessions £20.  This gives you entry to all meetings, puts you on the mailing list and gives you voting rights.

For non-members, entry to meetings is £7 (concs £5)

Subscriptions should be sent to the Membership Secretary:

Ann Gwilt, 39 Oxgangs Road, Edinburgh EH10 7BE

Secretary :  Mario Relich,  
2 Allan Park Loan,  Edinburgh EH14 1LG

Email    dmr.lit@fsmail.net

MEETINGS are usually held in the Scottish Poetry Library and can be booked by e-mailing reception@spl.org.uk

or phone 0131 557 2876. There is a special allocation for PAS members.

For directions see the map on the Poetry Library Website.

The Programme for Spring 2012

February 1st AGM.

Come and raise a glass, or two, to “Poets on Poets or Poetry” with your choice of poems on this theme.

February 8th Liz Lochhead

We started our year’s readings with the wit and wisdom of Scotland’s Makar  to banish the monsters of the year.

The Choosing; 2011

     

February 29th   Andrew Forster

and Ryan van Winkle

Two poets who write about desire, regret and loss but with a life affirming warmth and perception. Telling stories full of people and places, exploring  moments of significance and discovery.

Andrew Forster: “Territory” Flambard 2010

Ryan van Winkle: ” Tomorrow We will Live Here”  Salt 2010

March 14th  David Constantine

An editor, translator and poet reading his own crafted poetry that has invention, surprise and insight into the predicaments of the human condition.

“Nine Fathoms Deep “   Bloodaxe

March 20th (Tuesday)   

The  Hugh MacDiarmid Lecture :

Alastair Fowler:  “Obscurity in Poetry”

A distinguished academic,

renowned both in America

and Britain and  Professor

Emeritus of Rhetoric and

English Literature at

Edinburgh University traces

how obscurity is utilised in

poetry, especially in the

modern period.

Stewart Conn responds to the reading by the American Poet Laureate Kay Ryan on 9th November last year

At the Reading

We trouped downstairs,

each eagerly clutching

a plastic disc, red on one

side, yellow on the other,

vouching we had paid

and giving right of entry –

to emerge what seemed

moments later, having

exchanged it for a gold coin.

The Spring Programme is now complete.

The readings will start again in September and details will be posted on the Website as soon as they are confirmed.

               

Mario Relich’s Report on last season’s readings can be found here