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I’m delighted to have been added to the Scottish Book Trust’s Live Literature author directory. You can view the page here: https://www.scottishbooktrust.com/authors/karen-macfarlane
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Jen Dunn is a doctor and fellow Seahorse publications poet. Jen brings both her surgeon’s eye and psychiatrist’s ear to her poetry, which is finely tuned into the world, the people in it, and the self. It was a pleasure to help her launch her first collection, ‘Tell Me About the Broken Bones’ in Dundee…
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I have a tiny poem about huge things in the new edition of Consilience. It’s an interesting journal combining science with poetry and the editorial team follow the scientific tradition of peer-review before assigning a managing editor to each selected poet. The whole process was a joy – it’s rare to get editorial feedback on…
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Raising the Fifth is a ‘curated creative space to amplify the voices of people who are childless or child free, whatever the circumstances’. I’m really delighted to have my poem ‘My face won’t be found in folk still to come’ shared there today. Thanks to Jessica and all the contributors to this beautiful project.
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I’m one of 5 poets from across Scotland commissioned to produce new work for this year’s festival (details here ). This is a fantastic interdisciplinary project involving art, words and music which will be performed at Perth Gallery in May. A huge thanks to Jim Mackintosh for inviting me to be part of it.
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I had a great afternoon at the Larick Centre, across the Tay in Fife. I was lucky to share the platform with Finola Scott, who was launching her new pamphlet of poems exploring the climate crisis (with huge humour, despite the serious issues being addressed) and musician Quee MacArthur. One of the loveliest rooms I’ve…
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I was delighted to help launch Nigel Kent’s pamphlet of epistolary poems yesterday evening, reading on a Zoom link to the live event at Script Haven bookshop in Worcester. Check out Nigel’s brilliant collection here: https://nigelkentpoet.wordpress.com/
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Last week I had the pleasure of facilitating a workshop for the Aberfeldy Jotters, a long-standing Perthshire writing group and – I can confirm – a couthy bunch to have lunch with. We converged, from our opposite ends of the county, at Perth Art Gallery, and spent the day exploring creative responses to some of…
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Back in August, I was delighted to lead a workshop on ekphrastic poetry at the wonderful Wee Gaitherin poetry festival in Stonehaven. You can read about the workshop, along with some of the poetry that grew out of it, over at Poems on Public Art.
Karen Macfarlane 