The upcoming Shore Poets event will mark the last Mark Ogle Memorial Award (MOMA). The award, established in 2007, has commissioned works from some of the UK’s most celebrated poets.
Saturday 2nd March 2019 at 7.30pm – 9.45pm
The Cornerstone Centre, St John’s (at the junction of Princes Street & Lothian Road) Admission: £5 (includes a drink and light snacks)
The event will be held on Saturday March 2 at The Cornerstone Centre, St John’s. This year’s winner, Jim McGonigal, will speak. He will also be joined by winners from previous years Anna Crowe, Vicki Feaver and Tom Pow. Angus Peter Campbell and Meg Bateman hope to be there too, if possible. Music will be provided by Edinburgh band The Whole Shebang.
About the poets:
Mark Ogle (1948-1999)
One of the first members of the Shore Poets, his untimely death left behind unacknowledged poetic talent. The Mark Shore Memorial Award, commissioned by his family, allows his work to recognized by having a fellow Shore Poet respond to one of his poems with their own. A posthumous collection, A Memory of Fields, was published in 2000.
Jim McGonigal
This year’s winner, his poetry includes award-winning Passage/An Pasaíste (2004) and Cloud Pibroch(2010), both from Mariscat Press, and The Camphill Wren (2016) from Red Squirrel Press. His most recent work is Turning Over in a Strange Bed (Mariscat Press, 2017). He has also been a recipient of the Saltire Award for his biography Beyond the Last Dragon: A Life of Edwin Morgan (2012). He is the co-editor of The Midnight Letterbox (Carcanet Press, 2016), a selection of Morgan’s correspondence from 1950–2010.
Anna Crowe- 2013 winner
The Whole Shebang is an Edinburgh band, formed in 2011, who play a variety of music, including everything from show tunes, the blues, country to contemporary pop.
The line-up includes Kerry Houston (vocals), Fiona Shivas (vocals), Gail Turpin (vocals), Frank Glynn (fiddle and viola), Doug Govan (guitar and ukelele), Al Gray (bass), Bill Haddow (mandolin), and Hamish Whyte (percussion).
