where three men were lost
on a single moonlit night,
their fathers combing
the whitetops,
splitting each running wave open,
straining for a call.
Samuel Tongue reads at StAnza’s Poetry in Protest, Byre Theatre, Sun 9 Mar.
A powerful performance of contemporary war poetry published in In Protest: 150 Poems for Human Rights about conflicts ranging from the Spanish Civil War to Syria. Hosted by co-editor and poet Laila Sumpton, the poets published in the anthology and those performing at the festival come together to perform global war poetry…
Readings from new Scottish writings.
Track longlists, shortlists and winners: from Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction to the Man Booker Prize
MCM, Thoughtbubble, Nor Con and more: our calendar of sci-fi, superhero and comic book gatherings
Win four one-day tickets to The Old Course and a bottle of Peat Chimney whisky
Celebrity authors signing copies of their latest books.
Celebrate the diversity of Scottish literary culture, taking in the obvious and obscure across four centuries
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