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• THURSDAY 30 September 7.30 in Pathfoot A7
DILYS ROSE is a poet, a writer of short stories and a novelist. She has collaborated with visual artists and musicians, and has worked as a writing fellow and a creative writing tutor most notably and currently at the University of Edinburgh. Her literary awards include The Macallan/Scotland on Sunday Short Story award, the Society of Authors’ Travel Award, two Scottish Arts Council Book Awards, the Robert Louis Stevenson Memorial Award, the Canongate Prize, the UNESCO/City of Literature fellowship, and the McCash prize. Her poetry collections are When I Wear My Leopard Hat (for children); Madame Doubtfire's Dilemma (1989); Lure (2003) and her most recent collection Bodywork, which engages with the frailties and fascinations of what it is to be a mortal, fleshly physical being. ‘[Her poems] cover a wonderful range of subjects . . . often with daring, always with verve and imagination’ —Douglas Dunn.
• THURSDAY 21 October 7.30 in Pathfoot A7
HUGH McMILLAN’s poetry combines great good humour with real feeling and a strong historical sense. His collections include Aphrodite's Anorak (1996), Strange Bamboo (2008) and The Lost Garden (2010). He works as a History teacher in Dumfries and is the recipient of the Scottish National Open Poetry Prize and several Scottish Arts Council bursaries. After A Storm was a winner in the Smith/Doorstep Poetry Prize in 2004, his pamphlet Postcards from the Hedge won the 2009 Callum Macdonald Memorial Prize and the booklet Devorgilla's Bridge was shortlisted for the 2010 Michael Marks prize. He is a gifted reader of his own work who deserves to be much more widely known, and a most entertaining evening is assured.
• THURSDAY 18 November 7.30 in Pathfoot A7
JOHN GLENDAY’s first collection The Apple Ghost (1989) was widely praised and won a Scottish Arts Council Book Award. His second book, Undark (1995), was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, as is his third major volume Grain. His poems have been anthologised in the Faber Book of Twentieth Century Scottish Poetry (1993); The Firebox (1998); and New British Poetry (2004). He was appointed Scottish/Canadian Exchange Fellow for 1990/91, based at the University of Alberta, Edmonton and currently works as an addictions counsellor with NHS Highland. ‘Grain is a mature, distilled volume, at times delicately lyrical, at times playful or surreal. Meanings shift and unfold. A poem might take as a starting point a tin of peaches or an etching of a line of trees, but it always reaches towards something more.’ —Scotland on Sunday.