Kathleen Jamie maps out new landscape at book festival
Enormous, arrogant, brash, entreating, wheeler-dealing, the Fringe is nevertheless not the only show in town by any means. Up in Charlotte Gardens, just off Princes Street, is the more sedate, Guardian-sponsored, Edinburgh international book festival. After a hard day’s night at the Fringe Kathleen Jamie, Scotland’s poet of landscape and the natural world, who lives with her family alongside th...
25th August 2013
Rhyme and reason: why Cat Brogan has trouble remembering her lines
FORMER Edinburgh slam champion Cat Brogan was apologising on Monday for having to read some of her poems at Other Voices: Spoken Word Cabaret at the Banshee Labyrinth. “I’m doing an MA at Goldsmiths and as a result I’m not allowed to rhyme anymore,” she explained. As any performance poet will t...
15th August 2013
