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St Mungos Mirrorball Spring programme |
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Mirrorball Spring Programme ( February-May 2010) Please find details of St Mungos Mirrorball's Spring Programme – There are three events planned showcasing leading international poets along side up and coming Glasgow poets. All events are free will normally be in the Poetry Club , Glasgow School of Art, 167 Renfrew Street Please make an effort to come along and support these events |
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Thursday 25th February - 7 p.m. |
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Cheryl Follon was born in Ayr in 1978, where she grew up. She studied Law and then English and Scottish Literature at Glasgow University before taking anMPhil in Creative Writing at Trinity College Dublin, and now teaches at acollege of further education in Glasgow. She has received two writer’sbursaries from the Scottish Arts Council, and has published one previouscollection with Bloodaxe, All Your Talk (2004). Tonight she will be launching her new collection with them Dirty Looks.
Emily Ballou is an Australian poet, novelist and screenwriter. A previousrecipient of the Judith Wright Prize for her poem 'Enter', her firstcollection, The Darwin Poems, a verse-portrait of Charles Darwin waspublished in 2009. It was recently awarded the Wesley Michel Wright Prize for Poetry.
Ryan Davidson's first book Under What Stars was published in July byAmpersand Books. His work has appeared in The American Book Review, MastodonDentist, Open Letters, The Arabesque Review, Temenos Review and NerveCowboy. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in English Literature at the University of Glasgow.
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Thursday 29th April 7 p.m. |
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Mexican night 2010 is the hundredth anniversary of the Mexican Revolution. To mark the occasion, the Poetry Translation Centre has invited a trio of Mexican poets to the UK - Coral Bracho and David Huerta (both of whom write in Spanish) and Victor Teran (who writes in Zapotec, an indigenous and endangered Mexican language).
Coral is translated by Katherine Pierpoint & Tom Boll; David Huerta by Jamie McKendrick & Tom Boll; Victor Teran will by David Shook. As part of a month long tour to Britain's key literary venues, the poets and a selection of translators will be visiting Glasgow and appearing at St Mungo's Mirrorball for an evening of readings and lively discussion. This event is being run in partnership with the Scottish Writers Centre |
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Thursday 6th May 7.00 p.m. |
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Clydebuilt 2
This an evening showcasing the work of St Mungo's Mirrorball's Clydebuilt poetry apprenticeship scheme. The graduates from Clydebuilt 2 will be reading some of the work they have been developing over the twelve months of the programme. The apprentices reading will be Gillean McDougall, Val Thornton, Claire Quigley and Lorraine Jenkins. Another great night in store. |
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