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Mirrorball Winter Programme ( October - December 2011)

Please find details of St Mungos Mirrorball's Spring Programme – There are number of events planned showcasing leading international poets along side up and coming Glasgow poets.

All events are free and will be in the The Poetry Club , The Glasgow Art Club, 185 Bath Street

Please make an effort to come along and support these events

Thursday 6th October - 7 p.m.

Launch of The Poetry Club 6^th October on National Poetry Day

Chris Wallace-Crabbe was born in 1934. After graduating in English, he became Lockie Fellow in Australian Literature and Creative Writing, Melbourne University, from 1961 to 1963, and over the next decades he became Reader in English and then held a Personal Chair from 1988. He was Harkness Fellow at Yale University 1965-7, Professor of Australian Studies at Harvard, 1987-8, and visiting Professor at the University of Venice, 1973 and 2005. His first book of poems was published in Australia in 1959, but in the 1980s he began to publish with Oxford University Press, with the The Amorous Cannibal. His most recent books include; Telling a Hawk from a Handsaw (Carcanet, 2008), By and Large (2001), The Universe Looks Down (Brandl and Schlesinger, 2005) and the bilingual Each Line of Writing Still Is to be Done (L'Officina, 2006). Read It Again, a volume of critical essays, was published by Salt in 2005. Since his retirement he has been Professor Emeritus in the Australian Centre, the University of Melbourne.

David Kinloch is from Glasgow. He is the author of five books of poems, most recently Finger of a Frenchman (Carcanet, 2011). A co-founder and co-editor of the poetry magazine Verse, he was instrumental in setting up the Scottish Writers' Centre and runs the Edwin Morgan International Poetry Competition. He is also the author of numerous critical studies in the fields of French, Scottish and Translation Studies.

The Clydebuilt Jazz Ensemble will perform a short selection of poems from their recent collection Spellwinders with Amy Anderson, Alexander Hutchison, Lorraine McGuire, Gordon McInness, Sam Tongue

Thursday 27th October 7 p.m.

Thursday 27^th October

Jackie Kay was born in Edinburgh in 1961 and grew up in Glasgow. She has written all her life. Several of her adult poetry collections have won or been shortlisted for awards across the board. Her first novel Trumpet won the Author's Club First Novel Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize. Her first novel for children, Strawgirl, a lyrical slice of magical realism, was a huge critical success. Jackie lives in Manchester with her son. Her most recent poetry collection Fiere was a companion piece to the her memoir Red Dust Road which was this year’s Scottish Book of the Year

Donny O’Rourke is a poet and singer-songwriter, Donny O'Rourke, having had overlapping careers in broadcasting, journalism and academe, teaches Film and Poetry at Glasgow University where he holds an Honorary Fellowship. The recipient of several bursaries, residencies and visiting professorships, he has taught at Cambridge, Yale, Glasgow School Of Art and at other leading institutions in Britain, on the continent and in North America. As author or editor, Donny has more than a score of books and CDs to his name. His performances are influenced by Broadway musicals, Celtic folk song, Scottish music hall and European cabaret.

Sheila Templeton was born and brought up near Aberdeen, but left her north-east roots to teach in West Lothian for nearly thirty years. She has recently moved to Glasgow after 10 years in Ayrshire. She's a widely published poet and her poetry prizes include the Robert McLellan Poetry Award from the Arran Literary Festival and the James McCash Award for Poetry in the Scots Language, both 2007. She has two published collections to date - a pamphlet Slow Road Home, 2004 Makar Press; and more recently, Digging For Light, 2011 New Voices Press.

Thursday 10th November 7.00 p.m.

John Glenday’s first collection, The Apple Ghost won a Scottish Arts Council Book Award and his second, Undark, was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. His most recent collection, Grain (Picador, 2009) is also a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and was shortlisted for both the Ted Hughes Award and the Griffin Poetry Prize. He is a judge for the 2011 National Poetry Competition.

A C Clarke, is an active member of Scottish PEN, has been quite widely published in magazines and competition anthologies and has won a number of poetry prizes, among them the Petra Kenney award and the Brownsbank Poetry Competition. She has just been shortlisted for the Off The Stanza poetry competition in Stirling. She has had a poetry pamphlet and two full collections published. A second pamphlet, A Natural Curiosity, inspired by Glasgow’s Museum of Anatomy, is due out from New Voices Press in October and her third full collection, Fr Meslier’s Confession, inspired by the atheist priest, Jean Meslier, is due out from Oversteps Books in January of next year. She is currently working with a music student at Edinburgh University on a libretto based on the affair between George Sand and Frederic Chopin.

Andy Jackson is from Manchester but has lived in Scotland for 20 years. His poems have appeared in Magma, Gutter, Northwords Now, New Writing Scotland, Blackbox Manifold and on the walls of public conveniences in the Shetlands. His first collection 'The Assassination Museum' was published by Red Squirrel in 2010, and he is currently editing an anthology of poems inspired by movies & television. His poetry show 'Immortality Now!' appeared at the Edinburgh Festival in 2011.

Thursday 24th November 7.00 p.m.

Don Paterson (b. 1963) is an accomplished jazz musician as well as a poet born in Dundee, His first collection, Nil Nil, came out in 1993 and won the Forward Prize for the Best First Collection. Subsequent collections include God's Gift to Women and Landing Light, both recipients of the T. S. Eliot Prize. Paterson is currently poetry editor at Picador, teaches in the School of English at St Andrews University. He recerived an OBE in 2008 and The Queen’s Medal for poetry in 2010. His most recent collection Rain won the Forward prize.

William Letford lives in Stirling. He has recieved New Writer's Award from the Scottish Book Trust, an SQA Star Award, an Edwin Morgan Travel Bursary, and the Stirling Provost Award for Arts and Culture. Earlier this year he travelled to Lebanon with Reel Festivals to work with Arabic poets on translating their work into English. Most Recently he has been published in Carcanet's Anthology 'New Poetries V.'

Peter Mackay is a writer, broadcaster and academic. A pamphlet of his poems From Another Island was published by Clutag Press in 2010, and his work has appeared widely in Scotland and Ireland. A native Gaelic speaker from the Isle of Lewis, he writes in both Gaelic and English.