Forthcoming & recent
Wednesday 25th September 2019
7pm (doors open 6.30pm)
Canons’ Gait Cellar Bar
232 Canongate
Edinburgh, EH8 8DQ
Admission: £5 (concessions £3)
Readers: Stewart Conn, Jane McKie, Jane Bonnyman, Max Scratchmann, with music from Fire in the Grate
Tuesday 25th June 2019 (6.30 – 8.00 pm)
Aspects of Edinburgh
Scotland Street Press
Poems by Stewart Conn — Drawings by John Knight
Blackwell's Bookshop
53 South Bridge, Edinburgh
Tickets free but bookable via Eventbrite.
Sunday 7th October 2018 (2.00-3.00)
Mistress of Unease: The Poetry of Muriel Spark
Stewart Conn highlights especially her spectral figures, and her love for the Ballads Readings by Gerda Stevenson part of Blairgowrie, Rattray and the Glens Bookmark Festival |
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Blairgowrie Community Campus
Tickets: £15 for the full day of events celebrating 100 years of Muriel Spark
Thursday 4th October 2018 at 12.30
Rededication of the Poetry Tree in St Andrew Square, Edinburgh
on National Poetry Day
Readers: past and current city makars Stewart Conn, Ron Butlin, Christine De Luca and Alan Spence
All welcome.
wee haiku of a tree—
smallest in the garden
but holding its own
Alan Spence,
Edinburgh Makar
Saturday 7th April 2018 (10.30-11.30: coffee at 10.15)
Edinburgh: City in a Landscape
A poetry reading by Stewart Conn
Royal Overseas League in the Royal Scots Club, Abercromby Place, Edinburgh
Entry £5
Saturday 17th March 2018 14.30-16.30
Blairgowrie Bookmark Festival
Three Scottish Poets:
Stewart Conn, Gerda Stevenson & John Glenday
St Catherine's Church Hall, George Street, Blairgowrie
£7 (£6 members)
Wednesday 7th February 2018: 12.45-13.30
Mistress of Unease: the Poetry of Muriel Spark
The Hawthornden Lecture Theatre,
Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh
Muriel Spark claimed: “Although most of my life has been devoted to fiction, I have always thought of myself as a poet”. Stewart Conn responds especially to the spectral figures and echoes of the Ballads which mark her as a Mistress of Unease.
Readings by Gerda Stevenson.
Free, unticketed
Wednesday 17th January 2018: 2.30-3.30
U3A Open Meeting:
Edinburgh: City in a Landscape – poems.
Epsworth Halls, Methodist Church, 25 Nicolson Square, EH8 9BX.
Entrance: a nominal £1
Past
Stewart Conn has given many readings over the years at the Edinburgh International Book Festival and elsewhere: in the British Library's millenium season, at the Voice Box in the Royal Festival Hall, at the St Magnus Festival in Orkney, at Alloway on the 250th anniversary of Burns's birth, in the Scottish Poetry Library and at Poetry Festivals ranging from Aberdeen, Bath and Bristol to Tetova, Vilnius and Zagreb.
He and wind virtuoso John Sampson have presented 'Roull of Corstorphin' on a variety of occasions (including the Edinburgh Book Festival, the Old Town Festival, and for the Henrysoun Society in Dunfermline) since its first performance in the National Library of Scotland.
In 2010 he appeared at the Ullapool Book Festival, Aberdeen Word Festival and Wigtown Book Festival. In Oct 2004, during his tenure as Makar, he read Emissaries, which was specially commissioned for the occasion, at Edinburgh's World City of Literature presentation in the UNESCO building in Paris.
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Emissaries We come wearing neither the sackcloth Emissaries for Scotland and its capital |