wordfringe
2009
1st–31st May 2009
Week 4
Tuesday 19 May
6.30pm
Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen
(...trucks never sleep: or hurt: I do...)
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Tuesday 19 May
8pm
The Tunnels, Aberdeen
Sharp-tongued radical poetry and hard hitting political songs
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Wednesday 20 May
7pm
Better Read Books, Ellon
This event celebrates the new Koo Press chapbook by Paulina Vanderbilt
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Thursday 21 May
6.30pm
Books and Beans, Aberdeen
This event celebrates the new Koo Press chapbook by Paulina Vanderbilt
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Friday 22 May
4pm
Museum of Scottish Lighthouses, Fraserburgh
Listen to lighthouse poetry performed by Writer in Residence Knotbrook Taylor and
local school children
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Friday 22 May
7.30pm
The Lemon Tree, Aberdeen
Beyond Our Kennel: Innovative stand-up comic poetry
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Saturday 23 May
11am
Douglas Hotel, Aberdeen
A workshop with John Hegley
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Sunday 24 May
8pm
St James Episcopal Church, Stonehaven
World premiere of John Hearne's English translation of the Swedish text by Bengt
Pohjanen
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Week 5
Monday 25 May
7pm
Tarts and Crafts, Balmedie
Join us on our flights of fancy, and prepare to have your feathers ruffled
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Tuesday 26 May
6.30pm
Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen
T.S. Eliot prizewinner Jen Hadfield, Jingling Geordie Keith Armstrong, and John
Mackie's Infinite Equation #2
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Wednesday 27 May
7pm
Gordon Highlanders Museum, Aberdeen
Poems and songs on the theme of leaving and returning home
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Thursday 28 May
6.30pm
Books and Beans, Aberdeen
Makar Poets breeze into Aberdeen
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Friday 29 May
7.30pm
Crown Terrace Methodist Church, Aberdeen
An Aberdeen Writers' Circle bi-annual event
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Saturday 30 May
1pm
Better Read Books, Ellon
The author will be signing copies of his new book
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Saturday 30 May
7.30pm
Aberdeen Arts Centre
Let Hitler do his worst — Aberdeen's fishwives show him they have the guts
to cope
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Sunday 31 May
3pm
Left Bank, Tarland
Koo Press Poetry Roadshow with Catriona Yule, Haworth Hodgkinson and Douglas W. Gray
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The Night Mare V Fear of Intimacy
(...trucks never sleep: or hurt: I do...)
Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen [Map]
Admission £5 (concessions free)
No booking required
Premiere of a work containing contemporary words and manufactured sounds from poet
Knotbrook Taylor and sound artist David Liddell as they try in vain to dissect modern
life and tear out its guts — bizarre, funny and terrifying — they cover
such subjects as dating sites, tattoos, road side bombs, mummification, and bake
them into a very strange sounding yet somehow compelling bolognaise — ‘holy
heat Batman!’
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Based in Angus, poet and performer Knotbrook Taylor is a founder member of
the Blue Salt Collective,
a multimedia group of poets working with dance, image and sound. Currently trying
to find meaning by juxtaposing random ideas and looking for the links — which
is just the start of the Night Mare. Due to take up the post of Writer in Residence
at the Museum of Scottish Lighthouses in May 2009. His first collection Beatitudes
is available from the Scottish Poetry Pamphlet website and from his own website
www.knotbrook.co.uk.
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Painter and musician David Liddell, based in Angus, was born in Liverpool
in 1961. David's artistic output at the moment is concerned with landscapes and
subterranean strangeness of the remembered place. The uninvited connections between
mind, dream memory and experience. David likes to feel that artwork is an examination
of this process, not the memory or place in itself, but the wish to revisit. Working
with Knotbrook provides David with the opportunity to combine live guitar and effects
together with samples and voice to create soundscapes that echo the poetry's otherworldliness.
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