Throughout 2015-16, the Scottish Poetry Library and the Saltire Society will host
the public seminar series From Renaissance to
Referendum: Poetry, Culture and Politics, in collaboration with the University of Edinburgh, supported by
the British Academy, and by Edinburgh University’s Humanities and Social
Sciences Knowledge Exchange and Impact Fund.
Across the course of six free, evening events, poets and critics
will introduce some of the most important and exciting areas of debate around
the relationships between poetry, culture and politics in twentieth-century and
contemporary Scotland, setting up open audience discussions on these themes. We
hope these events will bring new critical and creative voices into the Scottish Poetry Library’s newly renovated
discussion and performance space. Come
along to listen, talk, and drink wine!
Our six seminars will be spread across the academic
year 2015-16:
1 October 2015, 6.30-8 pm, Saltire
Society, 22 High Street, EH1 1TF
With Margery Palmer-McCulloch and Alex Thomson
Book tickets here
22 October 2015, 6.30-8 pm, Scottish
Poetry Library, 5 Crichton’s Close, EH8 8DT
With Emma Dymock and Greg Thomas
Book tickets here
12 November 2015, 6.30-8 pm, Scottish
Poetry Library
With David Farrier and Samantha Walton
Book tickets here
4 February 2016, 6.30-8 pm, Scottish Poetry Library
25 February 2016, 6.30-8 pm, Scottish Poetry Library
17 March 2016, 6.30-8 pm, Scottish Poetry Library
For more details about upcoming seminars, including speaker biographies and abstracts, click on the seminar titles or use the tabs to your right
Buy tickets for the series and browse other events on the Scottish Poetry Library Eventbrite page
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