Issue 19 of this wonderful poetry magazine, co-edited by Roy McFarlane and Jo Clement, is out now. You can buy a copy here and/or come along to the online launch on Friday 22nd December 6-8pm to hear a crowd of poets, including myself, reading our poems. Here’s the line-up: Vicki Husband/Ophira Adar/Moniza Alvi/Addison Williams/Kostya Tsolakis/Liz…
In 2021 Dr Gillean McDougall invited a group of 28 artists and writers to respond to the archive of Gartnavel Royal Hospital in Glasgow, founded as an asylum in 1843. The result is Writing the Asylum a collection of creative writing and artworks created by a talented bunch of people, which are incredibly varied in…
Over the past few years I have been writing about the city, its people and its health, loosely based on my work in the community as an NHS Occupational Therapist. The writing has evolved in many directions and the latest works are a triptych of text based pieces which form part of a series of…
Gutter is a literary magazine that has been around for a while but continues to impress with a team of editors and guest editors at the helm keeping it as fresh and vibrant as it’s always been. I was especially pleased to be included in the very first issue. I also remember when the late,…
I am very pleased to say that my new collection Men Who Repeat Themselves is ready for pre-order with erbacce-press. It will be published in six-… Men Who Repeat Themselves
St Mungo Mirrorball’s Verse Apprenticeship Scheme Clydebuilt in partnership with the Edwin Morgan Trust The Clydebuilt 15 Verse Apprenticeship Scheme… Clydebuilt 15: launch call
At this moment in time it felt particularly important to get it right, to deliver Les Beley’s words to the audience at StAnza International’s Poetry Festival in St Andrews as he couldn’t be here himself. In the car en route I’d switched off the radio, the reports of the bombing of a maternity hospital in…
On June 5th (11.30-13.30) I’m running an online poetry workshop for Glasgow Zine Library. Glasgow Zine Library are running a whole host of great workshops in June and beyond, and have a pay-what-you-can policy. See details of my workshop below or by clicking the GZL link above. Words Find Ways poetry workshop intends to generate…
StAnza International Poetry Festival has always been committed to exploring poetry in translation and this year’s festival was no exception. The question that came up twice during the panel discussions I attended – is anything untranslatable? – was an interesting one. I have some experience of negotiating the unmarked borders of translation, when I took…
StAnza Festival is a wonderful International poetry festival held annually in the town of St. Andrews, Fife. I’ve been a regular attender for many years as it’s the best place to hear from new voices, International poets, poetry translators and panel discussions, as well as meet up with friends and well kent faces. This year’s…
Looking forward to reading at the next St. Mungo’s Mirrorball event on November 14th with Ireland’s newly appointed Professor of Poetry Frank Ormsby and local poet Stephen Watt who has just published a new crime book in verse; should be a great evening. I’ll be reading from my most recent publication Sykkel Saga, a pamphlet-long poem…
This fine object was designed and typeset by Dalrymple. I’m really pleased with the aesthetic choices and clean, stylish typography. The cover is a detail from an image aptly named ‘Kyst’ (coast) by artist Ben Woodhams. It is from a fascinating art project he undertook last year recording the coastline of the Danish island of Bornholm…
Sykkel Saga is a long poem about a cycle trip through the Arctic Circle in northern Norway. It is a journey through landscape, Norse mythology and the Norwegian language, exploring what draws us to a place, of distance and proximity in time and space, and of connections. The pamphlet is being published by Mariscat Press…
As part of East Dunbartonshire’s astronomically themed summer reading challenge Watch This Space, I’m reading at Bishopbriggs library on Wednesday 19th June, 6.30-7.30p.m. The event is free, come along. Check out the other events too including Beyond the Moon Landing with Pippa Goldschmidt (astronomer and writer) on at Westerton library on Tuesday 18th June.
We found ourselves as pilgrims at Govan Old on the 19th of May, exactly 130 years since the current church was dedicated. A wonderful building, the site dates back to the 9th century, an early point of pilgrimage, Govan Old houses a sarcophagus associated with the 6th century Scottish Saint Constantine as well as other…
Vicki Husband 