wordfringe 2007
1–31 May
Week 3
Tuesday 15 May
7pm
Aberdeen Central Library
Lost in Music
Rachel Fox (poet) with Andy Fellows (concertina)
Tuesday 15 May
8.30pm
Snafu
Comedy Capers Comedy Showcase
with the best of the region's rising comedy stars
Wednesday 16 May
12.45pm
RGU, Garthdee
In wards, out wards
Poems and stories from nursing and beyond, with Colin Macduff, Eddie Gibbons
& Gerard Rochford
Wednesday 16 May
8pm
Woodend Barn, Banchory
Blue Salt Collective
Poetry with visuals, music and dance from Knotbrook Taylor, Catriona Yule,
Haworth Hodgkinson, John Glenday & Mhairi Allan
Thursday 17 May
6.30pm
Books and Beans
Tongue & Cheek
Launch of Liana Hemmett's chapbook On the Edge, plus
2 Alis & a G (Alison Flett, Alison Dunne & Eddie
Gibbons)
Friday 18 May
7pm
Aberdeen Arts Centre
Young Poets
Aberdeen Writers' Circle Schools Poetry Competition Prizegiving
Please note change of start time
Saturday 19 May
11am
The Lemon Tree
Ways with Words
Janet Paisley presents a workshop on the use of dialogue
Saturday 19 May
2pm
The Jazz Bar, Edinburgh
2 Alis & a G
Alison Flett, Alison Dunne & Eddie Gibbons
Saturday 19 May
7.30pm
Kilau
Paisley Pattern
Fiction, poetry and live music woven by playwright and poet Janet Paisley with
members of the Lemon Tree Writers
Sunday 20 May
3pm
Me FM (105.8FM)
Week 4
Monday 21 May
7.30pm
Aberdeen Arts Centre
Confessions and Rants
Wordfringe Festival Players in new drama from Wendy Ivers, Matthew Jupe,
Pauline de Koning, Cal Wallace & Haworth Hodgkinson
Tuesday 22 May
7pm
Aberdeen Central Library
Michael Molden and Friends
Michael Molden, with poets from Ellon and Glasgow
Tuesday 22 May
8.30pm
Enigma
Anything Prose: A Likely Story
Josh Artmeier, a vet pushed to the edge of sanity, with Helen Elizabeth Ramsey
and her refreshingly diverse group of writers
Wednesday 23 May
7pm
Gordon Highlanders Museum
War and Peace: A Terrible Beauty
A meditation on war and peace, with Sheena Blackhall, Ian Watt, Paulina
Vanderbilt, Morag Skene & Douglas Kynoch
Thursday 24 May
6.30pm
Books and Beans
A Loon and Three Quines
Poets Jim C. Wilson, Paulina Vanderbilt & Catriona Yule, with Margaret
Preston (flute)
Friday 25 May
7pm
Better Read Books, Ellon
Laughter, Love, Lochnagar
Koo Press presents Maureen Ross, Brian Lawrie & Douglas Kynoch
Saturday 26 May
1pm — 3pm
Better Read Books, Ellon
Book Signing
Knotbrook Taylor & Haworth Hodgkinson
Sunday 27 May
3pm
Me FM (105.8FM)
Full wordfringe Calendar
In wards, out wards
Poems and stories from nursing and beyond
Wednesday 16 May 2007
12.45pm
Room H506, Faculty of Health and Social Care Building,
Robert Gordon University, Garthdee Campus [Venue
12]
Admission Free
This event explores personal and professional perspectives on nursing, healthcare, love and loss through the medium of poems and stories. The contributors are Colin Macduff, Eddie Gibbons and Gerard Rochford.
The title of the event is from Colin's first collection of poems and stories which is published in May 2007. Colin's contribution is drawn mostly from his experiences as a nurse, educator and researcher.
Eddie will read mostly from his Republic of Ted collection of poems written about the death of his father. These insights into the evolving experience of bereavement have been critically acclaimed not only by other writers, but also by healthcare professionals in the UK.
Gerard will read poems on the themes of love, loss and restoration drawn from personal experience as well as from his experiences as a psychotherapist.
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Colin Macduff started in wards as a Ward Orderly in a Glasgow hospital in the early 1980s. Following training in mental health and general nursing, he worked in various hospital settings in staff and charge nurse positions. This, his first collection of poems and stories, draws on these experiences and later jobs out wards as a researcher and educator in nursing. Colin is currently Lecturer in Nursing at Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen. |
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Eddie Gibbons is a founder member of the Lemon Tree Writers. He has three poetry books published by Thirsty Books, Edinburgh, and two publications by Koo Press, Aberdeen. His latest (Thirsty) book of football poems Game On! appeared in May 2006. He is currently Aberdeen City Council's Scouser in Residence. |
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Gerard Rochford's recent poetry publications include Three Way Street, and The Holy Family and Other Poems, both published by Koo Press. His work has appeared in many magazines, most recently Northwords Now. He is a founder member of Dead Good Poets, convenor of their poetry readings at Books and Beans, and a poetry editor for Pushing Out the Boat. He is included in Janice Galloway's selection of Best 20 Scottish poems of 2006, for the Scottish Poetry Library. |
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