Programme for Readings at the Cornerstone Bookshop August 2012

We are delighted to announce that the programme of readings for August 2012 is now complete. We have a great lineup for this year and we look forward to welcoming readers and audience to our new venue, the Cornerstone Bookshop, just below St John's Church, Edinburgh. (text below is the same as in the flyer, only in larger print)

THE GOLDEN THREAD OF POETRY August 2012

in the Cornerstone Bookshop (independent, inclusive, ecumenical, charitable)

St John’s Terrace, Princes Street Edinburgh, EH2 4BJ

0131 229 3776 edinburgh@cornerstonebooks.org.uk

www.cornerstonebooks.org.uk

All events from 5.30 – 6.30 pm : with songs from Toby Mottershead on the terrace afterwards

Tuesday 7^th August

A C Clarke : compassionate poems about anatomy and atheism

Lesley Harrison: poems of birds and landscapes, minimal, exact

Anne Murray: well-made poems, well-read, well-travelled, well-thought

Wednesday 8^th August

Rosie Alexander: personal discovery and local feeling, a young poet from Orkney

Morgan Downie: also an artist, his poems draw from life and landscape

James Robertson: poems in Scots on political, historical, mythical and environmental themes

Thursday 9^th August

Tom Hubbard: international poems in English and Scots, lyrical or satirical

Nalini Paul: deeply thoughtful poems inspired by nature and experience

Morelle Smith : an exploratory traveller, she addresses the inner and outer journey

Tuesday 14^th August

Chrys Salt: ‘seriously good, thoroughly individual’, reading from her new collection

Pauline Prior Pitt: alternately funny and poignant, the older woman, island life

Wednesday 15^th August

Patricia Ace: poems of family, relationships and nature

Dawn Wood: a scientific mind brings simple subjects, wonderful connections

Thursday 16^th August

Lesley Duncan: her poems range from history to the contemporary, with acute observations

Hugh Macmillan: well-made well-delivered Scots historical comment, erudition and wit

Tuesday 21^st August

Jila Peacock: translations of Hafiz and Rumi read in Persian and English

Tessa Ransford: her new book is ‘don’t mention this to anyone’

Wednesday 22^nd August

Alexander Hutchison: philosophical, witty, aware and finely-written poems

Jim Aitken: angry at injustice yet tender and humane, poems of possibility

Thursday 23^rd August

Tessa Ransford and Iyad Hayatleh: A rug of a thousand colours: poems and translations inspired by the five pillars of Islam, bilingual in Arabic and English.