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Book Week Scotland 2014 – a celebration of books and reading

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'A love of reading......at its most powerful, transforms lives' (Sophie Moxon, Acting Director, Scottish Book Trust) For all the gloom and doom we hear about parents who never read to their children, teenagers who can...

Thursday in Edinburgh – What’s On Today

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GENERATION DJ Set: A La Fu. A La Fu has performed at Glastonbury, Brixton Academy, Trans Musicales, Pukkelpop and NYC's Knitting Factory. He will be offering an improvised response to the GENERATION art works before...

What’s On in Edinburgh this week

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MONDAY 6TH OCTOBER 2014 Mrs Mash the Storytelling Cook: stories, songs and participative fun for Portobello's youngest residents. 10.30-11am, The Skylark, 241-243 Portobello High Street. Toddler Time: Poppy Cat. Join fabulous feline Poppy Cat on her adventures...

Monday in Edinburgh – what’s on today

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Blackwell's Edinburgh presents The Monthly Book Quiz: if you know your Waugh from your Peace and your Meyer from your Heyer, try this monthly quiz.  Teams of up to five can enter. 6-7.15pm, Caffe Nero, Blackwell's, South...

What’s on in Edinburgh this week

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MONDAY 18TH AUGUST 2014 Edinburgh Book Fringe 2014: John Menaghan and Andy Jackson.  Prize-winning poet and playwright John Menaghan has published four books with Salmon Poetry (Ireland); four of his short plays have been staged...

Edinburgh Festival Fringe – Baba Brinkman – The Groover From Vancouver With His Muse...

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A Rap Guide To Religion/The Rap Canterbury Tales/Off The Top With Canadian, Baba Brinkman, about to Fringe premiere his deity defying show A Rap Guide To Religion, it may be apposite to recall Voltaire's deliciously...

What’s on in Edinburgh this week

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MONDAY 30 JUNE 2014 Continuing: GENERATION: 25 Years of Contemporary Art in Scotland. Venues include the Scottish Gallery of Modern Art One, Scottish National Gallery, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Fruitmarket Gallery and Collective Gallery, with...

Performance Poetry on the Prom at Portobello

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Portobello Poets present THE PORTOBELLO POETRY CIRCUS A night of performance poetry on the Prom! Featuring The Sensational Slam Champion CARLY BROWN plus COLIN McGUIRE The Human Cannonball of Spoken Word And further feats of fantasy from...

Edinburgh International Book Festival – William Letford

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William Letford has worked as a roofer, on and off, since he was fifteen years old. When his poetry appeared in Carcanet’s New Poetries V anthology last year, he won widespread acclaim. His charismatic...

Scottish Poetry Library airs new poets

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[soundcloud url="http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/56423224" params="auto_play=false&show_artwork=true&color=8434b2" width="100%" height="166" iframe="true" /] Edinburgh Reporter Radio popped along to the Scottish Poetry Library to find out about a series of free, open-air events that the Library is holding during August. The Courtyard...

Edinburgh Napier students introduce poetry slam at the Book Festival

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Three Edinburgh Napier students are coming to the Book Festival on Wednesday to try and popularise their poetry. The new event which they are launching is called Impro Slam and will demand quick responses...

Young Edinburgh Writers – A Room With Our View

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If you go down to the Central Library today you will get a nice surprise on the mezzanine floor. They have installed a bed. No it's not for you to lie down and contemplate...

West Port Book Festival – You have been bugged…

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by Sonja Bettina Klein   Everyone has been on a bus at least once in their lives wondering what the person sitting behind was talking about on the phone. It is in the inquisitive nature of...

Audio – Interview with Peggy Hughes of West Port Book Festival

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The West Port Book Festival is running for the fourth year this weekend until Sunday 16 October 2011. The programme runs all afternoon and into the evening. Tickets can be obtained from Peter Bell...

The West Port Book Festival – Emily Dodd

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Emily Dodd is an Edinburgh poet and published author who is quietly gaining an appreciative following in the capital and beyond. She is appearing on Thursday 13 October 2011 at The West Port Book...

Forest Cafe’s Literary Opus

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As we type, Edinburgh’s Inky Fingers writing group are holding a 36 hour writing marathon in The Forest Cafe as their mini literary festival comes to a close.  The event, They Shoot Writers, Don’t...

Edinburgh bloggers – Juliet Wilson

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We have discovered that there are actually two Juliet Wilsons in Edinburgh and both of them blog. So don't get confused! We talked to this Juliet Wilson...the one who is interested in education and...

We have a new Scots Makar!

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Poet and playwright, Liz Lochhead, has been announced as Scotland's new Makar. The announcement was made by the First Minister Alex Salmond and former First Ministers Lord McConnell and Henry McLeish. Ms Lochhead, who will...

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