Christine De Luca

Events

Christine has performed all over Scotland and in several other countries (but only once in England).

Upcoming

• 19th Aug, 12am - Sacred Arts Festival - Final of Young Religious Poets & Readings - Canongate Kirk, The Royal Mile, Edinburgh EH8 8BN
• 7th Jun, 7pm - Launch of Marco Fazzini's revised and extended MacCaig bilingual 'Selected' - The Waverley Bar, 3-5 Mary's St, Edinburgh EH1 1TA

2026

• 27th Feb, 4.10pm - Such Fragile Futures - artist & poet book event - Martin Hall, New College, The University of Edinburgh Mound Place Edinburgh EH1 2LX
• 17th Jan, 10.15am - Poetry for Breakfast with Christine De Luca - The Scottish Gallery, 16 Dundas Street Edinburgh EH3 6HZ

2025

• 22nd Nov, 12.30pm - Shore Poets at Push the Boat Out Festival - The Pleasance: Cabaret Bar, Pleasance Courtyard, 60 Pleasance EH8 9TJ
• 7th Nov, 7pm - Vod - Shetland's Abandoned Crofthouses - Historic Lunna Kirk, Vidlin, Shetland ZE2 9QF
• 5th Nov, 7pm - Vod - Shetland's Abandoned Crofthouses - Hymhus, Bigton, Shetland ZE2 9JF
• 3rd Nov, 7pm - Vod - Shetland's Abandoned Crofthouses - Waas Public Hall, Shetland ZE2 9PH
• 4th Oct, 7pm - -
• 13th Sep, 11.30am - Such Fragile Futures - Duddingston Kirk Hall, Duddingston Road West, Edinburgh EH15 3PX
• 13th Aug, 12am - Young Religious Poets Competition Final & readiings - Canongate Kirk, The Royal Mile, Edinburgh EH8 8BN
• 29th Jul, 7pm - Vod- Shetland's Abandoned Crofthouses - Shetland Library, Lower Hillhead, Lerwick, Shetland ZE1 0EL
• 19th May, 2pm - Rhapsodies of River - Scottish Parliament
• 29th Mar, 5pm - Bretagne-Écosse poetry event - in Shaetlan, English & French - salle du Mille-Club à Plouhinec, Brittany
• 27th Mar, 6pm - Whit ails, whit heals - poetry in Shaetlan, English & French . - Faculté des Lettres & Sciences Humaines, Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest

2024

• 14th Aug, 12am - Refuge and the Road Home - Canongate Kirk, 153 Canongate, Edinburgh EH8 8BN

2023

• 19th Sep, 7.30pm - WayWord Festival event, Aberdeen - The Blue Lamp, 121 Gallowgate, Aberdeen AB25 1BU
• 18th Aug, 2.30pm - Strafed by Splendour: Under Paolozzi’s Window - St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral, Palmerston Place, Edinburgh EH12 5AW
• 14th Aug, 6pm - Edinburgh Book Fringe - Typewronger Books, 4A Haddington Place, Edinburgh EH7 4AE
• 5th May, 11.30am - Ullapool Book Festival - Village Hall, Ullapool
• 9th Mar, 7pm - Evergreen in Springtime - Scottish Poetry Library, 5 Crichton's Close, Edinburgh EH8 8DT

2022

• 25th Nov, 6.30pm - Kimona Reinvented - Bird's Nest Gallery, 71 South Clerk Street, 1F1, Edinburgh EH8 9PP
• 22nd, 7.30pm - 12th Nov - Through all the Heavens of Ice - King Street Halls, Kirkwall KW15 1JF
• 10th Nov, 7pm - Paolozzi & Poetry - Auditorium Space, 1 New Park Square, 1 Airborne Place, Gyle, Edinburgh
• 29th Oct, 6.30pm - Book launch - The Trials of Mary Johnsdaughter - Shetland Museum & Archives, Hay's Dock, Lerwick ZE1 0WP
• 28th Oct, 7.30pm - Waas book launch - The Trials of Mary Johnsdaughter - Waas Public Hall, Waas, Shetland
• 16th Oct, 8pm - Northern Alchemy - poems and stories of the north -
• 18th Sep, 1.30pm - Summer Anywhere Poetry Festival - The Wee Hub, Ocean Terminal Floor 1, 74 Ocean Drive EH6 6JJ
• 10th Sep, 6pm - Culture Club - Autumn Leaves - 7b Saxe Coburg Street, Stockbridge EH3 5BN
• 19th, 2pm - 8th Aug - Love of Creation: poetry's power for the present - St Vincent's Chapel, St Vincent St, Edinburgh EH3 6SW
• 17th Jun, 7.45pm - New poems in English and Shetlandic - CSY Architects Marquee, Harmony Gardens, Melrose TD6 9LJ
• 17th Jun, 4.45pm - Victoria Crowe & Christine De Luca - Borders Book Festival - Cullen Kilshaw Marquee, Harmony Garden, Melrose TD6 9LJ
• 10th May, 7pm - Poems in Em -
• 20th Mar, 2pm - Promenade poetry - John Henry Lorimer exhibition - City Art Centre, Market Street, Edinburgh EH1 1DE
• 15th Mar, 5.30pm - Poetry event in Helsinki - Helsinki Central Library Oodi, Töölönlahdenkatu 4, Helsinki
• 19th Feb, 4pm - Celebration of Shetland - The Cornucopia Room, 4 Tower Dykeside, Hawick TD9 9EA
• 15th Feb, 5pm - In Conversation - Seeking meaning: the cauldron of faith, imagination and poetry - Baillie Room, New College, Mound Place, Edinburgh EH1 2LX
• 23rd Jan, 3pm - Celtic Connections - Shetland 550 - A Peerie Foy - Old Fruitmarket, Candleriggs, Glasgow G1 1NQ

2021

• 5th Dec, 1.30pm - The Sea in Literature - Assembly Hall, New College, University of Edinburgh
• 2nd Nov, 2.30pm - Victoria Crowe & Christine De Luca - Another Time, Another Place - McInroy & Wood Marquee, Borders Book Festival, Abbotsford
• 28th Oct, 6pm - Shore Poets - The Wash Bar (on The Mound) 11-13 N Bank St, Edinburgh EH1 2LP
• 12th Aug, 1pm - The World Shrinks to a Windowpane -
• 19th May, 5pm - Another Time, Another Place: Poetry Reading - Virtual Event
• 12th May, 2pm - Another Time, Another Place: In conversation with Victoria Crowe - Virtual Event
• 8th May, 11am - Another Time, Another Place: One Painting One Poem - Virtual Event

2020

• 19th Mar, 6.30pm - Northern Alchemy - Poems Selected & New - The Poetry Café 22 Betterton Street London WC2H 9BX
• 3rd Mar, 6.30pm - Launch of 'Northern Alchemy' - Blackwell's Bookshop, 53-62 South Bridge, Edinburgh EH1 1YS
• 13th Feb, 6pm - 'Spirit of Shetland' - a poetic response to the watercolours of Peter Davis - Birch Tree Gallery, 23A Dundas Street, Edinburgh EH3 6QQ

2019

• 4th Dec, 6pm - Paolozzi at Large - Hunterian Art Gallery, 82 Hillhead Street, Glasgow G12 8QQ
• 27th Nov, 7pm - Shore Poets - Canons' Gait Cellar Bar, 232 Canongate, Edinburgh, EH8 8DQ
• 9th Nov, 7.30pm - Network of Photographers for Palestine -Fundraiser - Out of the Blue, Dalmeny Street, Leith EH6 8RG
• 30th Sep, 6pm - International Translation Day @ English PEN - Free Word Centre, London
• 21st Sep, 2pm - Art & Poetry to delight the Senses - City Art Centre, 2 Market Street, Edinburgh EH1 1DE
• 19th Sep, 5.30pm - Paolozzi at Large in Edinburgh - National Library of Scotland, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh EH1 1EW
• 25th Aug, 11am - Eduardo Paolozzi -Pop Art Guru - at the Edinburgh International Book Festival - Charlotte Square Gardens, Edinburgh, EH2 4HQ
• 24th Aug, 7.30pm - Launch of Gutter Magazine - Scottish Poetry Library, 5 Crichton's Close, Canongate, Edinburgh EH8 8DT
• 21st Aug, 1.45pm - ScotlandsFest 2019: The Godfather of Pop Art - Paolozzi's Edinburgh - Quaker Meeting House, 7 Victoria Terrace, Edinburgh EH1 2JL
• 12th Aug, 8.30pm - Scotia Extremis at the Edinburgh International Book Festival - Charlotte Square Gardens, Edinburgh, EH2 4HQ
• 1st Aug, 6pm - Catching the Light - poetic responses to the art of Victoria Crowe - Scottish National Portrait Gallery, 1 Queen Street, Edinburgh EH2 1JD
• 20th Jul, 2pm - What a Poet Sees - City Art Centre, 2 Market Street, Edinburgh EH1 1DE
• 21st Jun, 7pm - Neu! Reekie! Remain in Light - Leith Theatre,Thomas Morton Hall, 29-30 Ferry Road, Edinburgh EH6 4AD
• 18th Jun, 7pm - - Quakers' Meeting House, off
• 3rd Jun, 7pm - -
• 15th May, 6pm - Pencil Lines - Edinburgh Makars and Other Scottish Poets - Scottish Poetry Library, 5 Crichton's Close, Edinburgh EH8 8DT
• 9th May, 7.30pm - La Casa della Poesia - La casa della Poesia di Milano, via Formentini 10, Milano 20121
• 3rd May, 6pm - Eduardo Paolozzi - Artworks and Creative Responses - Libreria Galla, Vicenza, Italy
• 26th Apr, 6.30pm - Paolozzi - Poetry and Jazz - Scottish gallery of modern Art, Modern Two, 75 Belford Road, Edinburgh EH4 3DR
• 30th Mar, 7pm - Palestinian event - Broughton St Mary's Church, 12 Bellevue Cescent, Edinburgh EH3 6NE
• 25th Feb, 7pm - Indigenous: Welsh, Gaelic, Scots, Cornish and More - Knowledge Centre, The British Library, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB
• 21st Feb, 6.30pm - -
• 21st Feb, 6.30pm - A Voice of One's Own - 130 Years of Women in Literature and Publishing - Garscube Terrace, Murrayfield, Edinburgh EH12 6BG
• 18th Feb, 6.30pm - Paolozzi at Large in Edinburgh - Central Library, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh
• 19th Jan, 2pm - Paolozzi at St Mary's Cathedral, Palmerston Place - St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral, Palmerston Place, Edinburgh EH12 5AW

2018

• 10th Dec, 7pm - Poetry Pamphlets Celebration - The British Library, 96 Euston Road, St Pancras, London NW1 2DB
• 4th Dec, 7.30pm - Vespers - Scottish Poetry Library, 5 Crichton's Close, Edinburgh EH8 8DT
• 18th Nov, 7pm - Norway and Scotland – Poetry & Music – Links through centuries - Spiegeltent, Festival Square, Edinburgh EH3 9SR
• 31st Oct, 6.30pm - Paolozzi at Large in Edinburgh - launch of book - Blackwell's Bookshop, 53-62 South Bridge, Edinburgh EH1 1YS
• 28th, 7pm - 28th Oct - Shore Poets - 28th October 18 - The Outhouse, 12A Broughton St Ln, Edinburgh EH1 3LY
• 20th Oct, 2.30pm - Poetry at the TAL Festival, Thame, near Oxford - The Stables, The James Figg, 21 Cornmarket, Thame OX9 2BL
• 30th Sep, 12pm - Wigtown Book Festival - The Print Room, Wigtown
• 29th Sep, 6pm - Wigtown Book Festival - The Print Room, Wigtown
• 8th Sep, 3pm - Bookmark Festival, Straloch - Straloch Garden Studio, Straloch House, Strathardle, Perthshire PH10 7PH
• 26th May, 4pm - Under Linda - Hareid, Norway
• 23rd May, 7pm - Glimt av Opphav - Glims o Origin - Indrehovedevegen 176, 6160 Hovdebygda, Norway
• 9th May, 6.15pm - 9th Apr - Listening to Rabindranath Tagore - The Nomads Tent, 21 St Leonard's Ln, Edinburgh EH8 9SH
• 9th Mar, 7.30pm - Wild Night with Neu! Reekie! - National Museum of Scotland, Chambers Street, Edinburgh
• 25th Jan, 6pm - Launch of The Hunterian Museum Poems (Anthology) - Lyon & Turnbull, 33 Broughton Pl, Edinburgh EH1 3RR

2017

• 13th Dec, 8.30pm - Spoken Word @ The Dick - The Royal Dick pub, Summerhall, Summerhall Pl, Edinburgh EH9 1PL
• 26th Nov, 7pm - Shore Poets - The Outhouse, 12A Broughton St Lane, Edinburgh EH1 3LY.
• 25th Nov, 6pm - Poems for Scottish PEN @ 90 - Central Library, 3 Corn Exchange Rd, Stirling FK8 2HX
• 18th Nov, 8pm - Poems to delight the palette - The Food Studio, 158 Dalkeith Road, Edinburgh EH16 5DX
• 17th Nov, 8pm - Poems to delight the palette - The Food Studio, 158 Dalkeith Road, Edinburgh EH16 5DX
• 12th Nov, 2pm - George Mackay Brown Fellowship Wirdsmit - Dialect Forum - Warehouse Buildings, Stromness
• 12th Nov, 7.30pm - George Mackay Brown Fellowship - Wirdsmit - Reading - Stromness Town Hall
• 11th Nov, 2.30pm - George Mackay Brown Fellowship - Wirdsmit -Workshop for 8-12s - Orkney Library & Archive, Kirkwall
• 17th Oct, 7pm - Poems of South Asia - Bookshop, 41 Montrose Terrace, EH7 5DJ
• 24th May, 2.30pm - U3A - Nicolson Square Methodist Church
• 29th, 1pm - 30th Apr - Colonsay Book Festival - Village Hall, Colonsay
• 25th Apr, 6pm - Sceptical Scot Discussion - Traverse Theatre, 10 Cambridge St, Edinburgh EH1 2ED
• 16th Mar, 7.45pm - Scotland - Russia Sonnets Exchange - Mitchell Library (The Blythswood Room), North Street, Glasgow G3 7DN
• 15th Mar, 6pm - Scotland - Russia Sonnets Exchange - McManus Gallery Cafe, Albert Square, Meadowside, Dundee DD1 1DA
• 14th, 6pm - 12th Mar - Scotland - Russia Sonnets Exchange - University of Edinburgh, 50 George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9JU
• 10th Jan, 5pm - Poetry through a filter of faith - Peebles Hydro Hotel
• 1st Jan, 1pm - Scot:Lands - New Year's Day - Scottish Storytelling Centre, Netherbow, Royal Mile EH1 1SR

2016

• 2nd, 1.30pm - 2nd Dec - Poetry in aid of the homeless - Bethany Shop, 32b Haddington Place, Edinburgh
• 30th Nov, 7.30pm - Saltire Society celebration - Oran Mor, 731-735 Great Western Road, Glasgow G12 8QX
• 29th Nov, 6.30pm - Poetry Association of Scotland - The Saltire Society 9,Fountain Close, 22 High St., Edinburgh EH1 1TF
• 26th Nov, 10am - Poet, Nation, Narration - St Augustine’s Church, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh
• 22nd Nov, 6pm - Umbrellas of Edinburgh - Poetry Anthology event - Blackwell's Bookshop, 53-59 South Bridge, Edinburgh EH1 1YS
• 5th Nov, 10am - Launch of Shetland versions of children's storybooks - The (Old) Shetland Library, Lower Hillhead, Lerwick, Shetland
• 1st Oct, 8pm - Platform Poetry - Station Master's House, Ladybank Station
• 21st Aug, 10.30am - Reading the City - Auld Reekie's Makars - Edinburgh International Book Festival, Charlotte Square Gardens
• 3rd Aug, 7pm - Kalevala in Shetland Dialect at Fiddle Frenzy - Mareel. Lerwick, Shetland
• 5th Jul, 7pm - Scottish Writers' Centre - The Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street Glasgow G2 3JD
• 2nd Jul, 12am - Poetry reading for Association Bretagne-Ecosse - La Maison des Illustres, 8 rue du Parc, Quimper
• 30th Jun, 5.30pm - Brittany & Scotland - Rencontre - Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines, Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest
• 2nd Mar, 7.30pm - Stanza concert - Sea Treeds, Sea Threads -Shetlandic Sea Chronicle in Jazz and Poetry - Byre Theatre, Abbey St, St Andrews, Fife KY16 9LA
• 18th Feb, 7pm - Poetry at the Central Library - Central Library, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh EH1 1EG

2015

• 7th Dec, 7pm - Memorial event for Tessa Ransford - St Andrew's & St George's West, 13-17 George Street, Edinburgh EH2 2PA
• 24th Nov, 7.30pm - Pentlands Book Festival -Wine, Women and Song - Juniper Green Bowling Club
• 31st Oct, 7.30pm - Linlithgow Book Festival - Masonic Hall, Linlithgow
• 23rd Oct, 12am - Poetry reading in Sardinia - tbd
• 14th Oct, 2pm - My life in Poetry - National Library of Scotland, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh
• 29th Aug, 7.30pm - The Kalevala (as you've never heard it before!) - EIBF, Garden Theatre, Charlotte Square, Edinburgh
• 28th Aug, 5pm - Contemporary Palestinian poetry - Library, Centre for Research Collections, University of Edinburgh
• 20th Aug, 5.30pm - Amnesty International reading at EIBF - EIBF, Baillie Gifford Corner Theatre, Charlotte Square, Edinburgh
• 3rd, 7pm - 3rd Aug - Kalevala in Shetland Dialect at Fiddle Frenzy - Mareel, Lerwick, Shetland
• 25th Jul, 7.30pm - One Voice - Two Tongues - The Bakehouse, Gatehouse-of-Fleet
• 18th Jul, 5.30pm - Edinburgh Jazz Festival - with Tommy Smith - Festival Theatre Studio, Potterow, Edinburgh
• 23rd Jun, 5pm - Launch of 'Like leaves in Autumn' in Florence - Memoriale di Santa Croce, Piazza Santa Croce, 16, 50122 Firenze
• 19th Jun, 7.45pm - Spoken & Sung - Fundraiser for the Scottish Poetry Library - St Mark's Unitarian Church, 7 Castle Terrace, Edinburgh EH1 2DP
• 15th Jun, 3pm - Minority tongues - University of Oslo
• 6th Jun, 7.30pm - Jazz & Literature - Mareel. Lerwick, Shetland ZE1 0WQ
• 5th Jun, 7pm - Write On Festival - Tyne & Esk Writers - The John Gray Centre, 15 Lodge Street, Haddington, East Lothian EH41 3DX
• 4th Jun, 8pm - Northern Soul - Woodend Barn, Banchory AB31 5QA
• 20th Mar, 7pm - Book launch of 'Like Leaves in Autumn' - Talbot Rice Gallery, Old Quad, University of Edinburgh
• 17th Mar, 6pm - Edinburgh Award - City Chambers, Edinburgh
• 7th Mar, 10am - STANZA Poetry Festival - Poetry Cafe Breakfast- Archipelago - Byre Theatre Studio, Abbey Street, St Andrews
• 6th Mar, 3.45pm - STANZA Poetry Festival - Round Table - The Albany Hotel, North Street, St Andrews
• 22nd Feb, 7.45pm - Shore Poets - Henderson's @ the West End, St John;s Crypt, 3 Lothian Road, EH1 2EP
• 17th Feb, 6.30pm - Stanza 2015 Preview Event - Craigmillar Library, 101 Niddrie Mains Road, Edinburgh EH16 4DS
• 4th Feb, 7pm - A Mischief of Makars - Golden Hare Books, 68 St Stephen Street, Stockbridge, Edinburgh EH3 5AQ
• 27th Jan, 6pm - Stanza 2015 Preview Event - National Library of Scotland, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh EH1 1EW

2014

• 10th Dec, 1pm - Strathclyde University Reading Series - Bar Gondolphi, 64 Albion St, Glasgow G1 1NY
• 28th Nov, 10.30am - Poetry workshop - Taigh Chearsabhagh Arts Centre and Museum, North Uist
• 27th Nov, 7.30pm - Poetry evening - Taigh Chearsabhagh Arts Centre and Museum, North Uist
• 25th Nov, 7pm - Michael Marks Poetry Pamphlet prize - Award ceremony - The British Library, 96 Euston Rd, London NW1 2DB
• 13th Nov, 6.30pm - Poetry of Place and No Place - University of Edinburgh, 50 George Square
• 6th Nov, 6.30pm - That Dark Night: Poetry & Discussion around the theme of Death. - St John's Church, West End, Edinburgh
• 26th Oct, 2.15pm - Conrad Festival, Krakow - Palace Under the Rams, Krakow
• 15th Oct, 8pm - Edinburgh University - inauguration of PEN branch - Project Room, University of Edinburgh, 50 George Square
• 11th Oct, 2pm - STANZA - A Bird is not a Stone - Supper Room, Town Hall, St Andrews
• 1st Oct, 6.30pm - Poetry Association of Scotland - Scottish Poetry Library, 5 Crichton's Close, Canongate, Edinburgh EH9 2JT
• 11th Sep, 6.30pm - Poetry and the independence debate - Glanfa Stage of the Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay
• 20th Aug, 2pm - Contemporary Palestinian Poetry - Glasgow Women's Library
• 19th Aug, 1pm - Contemporary Palestinian Poetry @ Edinburgh Book Fringe - Word Power Bookshop, West Nicolson Street, Edinburgh EH8 9DB
• 18th Aug, 4.30pm - EIBF- Liz Lochhead & Friends - Edinburgh International Book Festival, Charlotte Square, Edinburgh
• 17th Aug, 3pm - Contemporary Palestinian Poetry - Area C Palestinian Cafe, 239 Leith Walk, Edinburgh
• 17th Aug, 8.30pm - EIBF - 30th anniversary of the Scottish Poetry Library - Edinburgh International Book Festival, Charlotte Square Gardens, Edinburgh
• 6th Aug, 9.30pm - Trafika Europe: Northern Idyll - Summerhall Arts Centre - Cairns Lecture Theatre, Summerhall Place, EH9 1QH
• 5th Aug, 9.30pm - Trafika Europe Launch event - Summnerhall Arts Centre (Cairns Lecture Theatre), Summerhall Place EH9 1QH
• 4th Jul, 6.30pm - Minority tongues -unheard voices -Independent Bookshop Week - Golden Hare Bookshop, 102 West Bow, Grassmarket, Edinburgh
• 24th Jun, 6pm - UNESCO City of Literature Salon evening - Wash Bar on the Mound, Edinburgh
• 17th Jun, 6.30pm - Launch of 'Dat Trickster Sun' - Blackwell's Bookshop, 53-62 South Bridge, Edinburgh EH1 1YS
• 30th May, 7pm - Launch of poetry collection 'Dat Trickster Sun' - Bon Hoga Gallery, Weisdale, Shetland
• 24th Apr, 5.45pm - Launch of 'Quaich: An Anthology of Translation in Scotland Today' - Main Building, University of Glasgow (Gilchrist Postgraduate Club)
• 8th Jan, 7pm - Grange Association - Butterflies Cafe, Marchmont St Giles, Kilgraston Road, Edinburgh

2013

• 10th, 9am - 11th Dec - Island- Isola - Isole Da Itaca ad Atlantide - Dept of Comparative Literature, University of Rome
• 24th Nov, 7.45pm - Shore Poets - Henderson's @ St John's, 3 Lothian Road, Edinburgh
• 26th Oct, 1.30pm - Poetry reading - Lochgelly Centre, Bank Street, Lochgelly KY5 9RD
• 26th Oct, 7.30pm - Tyne & Esk Writers' Competition - Award Ceremony - Dalkeith Arts' Centre, 2 White Hart St, Dalkeith EH22 1AE
• 16th May, 6.30pm - Havera - The Story of an Island - Scottish Poetry Library, 5 Crichton's Close, Canongate, Edinburgh EH8 8DT
• 12th Apr, 2pm - Launch of Havera: Story of an Island - Boat Hall, Shetland Museum & Archives, Lerwick
• 28th Feb, 7pm - Structo Magazine -Art exhibition & poetry - Milton Keynes Gallery, 900 Midsummer Boulevard Central, Milton Keynes, MK9 3QA
• 27th Feb, 2pm - Book Group at Stockbridge Library - Stockbridge Library, 11 Hamilton Place, Edinburgh
• 24th Feb, 7.45pm - Shore Poets - Henderson's @ St John's, Lothian Road, Edinburgh

2012

• 5th Dec, 10.30am - Book Group @ Central Library - Central Library, Edinburgh
• 19th, 7pm - 21st Oct - Aspire Festival, Ireland - Kiffenora Cethedral & Cusack Centre, Carron
• 6th Oct, 2.30pm - Portobello Book Festival - Old Parish Church, Portobello
• 9th Sep, 4pm - WordPlay 2012 - Mareel - main auditorium, Lerwick, Shetland
• 24th Jun, 7.45pm - Shore Poets - Henderson's at St John's - 3 Lothian Road
• 16th Jun, 7pm - Celebration of Arne Ruste's poetry in his 70th year - in the town of Son, south of Oslo
• 26th May, 7.30pm - A Celebration of Vagaland - Shetland poet - Walls Public Hall

2011

• 19th Oct, 6.30pm - Edinburgh Launch of 'And then forever' - National Library of Scotland, 57 George IV Building, Edinburgh
• 22nd Sep, 7.30pm - Thin Air Festival - Winnipeg, Canada
• 15th Jun, 7.30pm - Leith Festival - The Granary, 32-34 Shore, Edinburgh, EH6 6QN
• 29th May, 7.45pm - Shore Poets - The Wee Red Bar, Edinburgh College of Art, 74 Lauriston Place, EH3 9DF
• 6th May, 12pm - Ullapool Book Festival - Ullapool Village Hall, 24 Market Street, Ullapool, IV26 2XE
• 26th Feb, 7pm - Shetland Association -Saucermeat Supper - Victoria Park Hotel, Ferry Road, Edinburgh
• 11th Jan, 5pm - Portuguese Evening - Floor 11 (Instituto Cameos), David Hume Tower (University of Edinburgh), George Square, Newington, Edinburgh, EH8 9JX

2010

• 14th Nov, 2.45pm - Poetry Club - Craigmillar Park Church, Edinburgh
• 5th Oct, 10.30am - Shetland through the eyes of a poet - British Legion Hall, Crieff PH7 3EB
• 4th, 12am - 5th Sep - Shetland launch of North End of Eden - WordPlay Book Festival in Islesburgh House, Lerwick, Shetland ZE1 0EQ
• 15th Aug, 12am - Books, Borders & Bikes - Traquair House, Innerleithen, Peeblesshire, EH44 6PW‎
• 12th Aug, 6pm - Blackwell Writers at the Fringe - Blackwell's bookshop, 53-63 South Bridge, Edinburgh EH1 1YS
• 15th Jul, 6pm - Launch of North End of Eden - Scottish Poetry Library, Crichton's Close, Canongate, Edinburgh, EH8 8DT
• 20th Mar, 2.15pm - StAnza 2010 - St Andrews, Fife, Scotland
• 6th Mar, 7pm - Between Leith and Lerwick - Conference Room, David Hume Tower, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh
• 21st Feb, 7pm - International Mother Language Day - Ivar Aasen Centre, Indrehovdevegen 176, NO-6160 Hovdebygda, Norway
• 28th Jan, 6pm - StanZa 2010 Edinburgh Reviews - National Library of Scotland, 57 George IV Building, Edinburgh

2009

• 15th Oct - Dunbar Writers - Dunbar
• 27th Sep, 7.45pm - Shore Poets Performance - The Lot, Grassmarket, Edinburgh
• 18th Aug, 7pm - Arrivals and Departures in the Spiegeltent - Spiegeltent, George Square, Edinburgh
• 31st Jul - Shetland poetry evening - Waas, Shetland
• 21st Jul, 3.20pm - International Conference - Orkney College, UHI, Kirkwall
• 17th Jul - Poetry at Tarland - Aberdeenshire
• 1st Jun - Shetland Art Evening - Scotland
• 27th Mar - Portuguese evening - Edinburgh
• 5th - 15th Mar - Festival de la Parole Poetique - Quimperlé, Brittany, France
• 2nd - 6th Feb - Kolkata Book Fair - Kolkata, India
• 29th Jan - The Authenticity of Memory - Edinburgh Printmakers' Workshop

2008

• 1st Nov - Cockenzie Guild - Edinburgh
• 1st Oct - Reid Memorial Church - Edinburgh
• 2nd Sep - Shore Poets - Mai Thai Bar, Edinburgh
• 1st Sep - Wordplay book festival - Shetland
• 1st Aug - 16th Sep - Tour of Shetland schools - Shetland
• 20th May, 1pm - Poems Aloud - Scottish Poetry Library, Crichton's Close, Canongate, Edinburgh, EH8 8DT
• 27th Mar, 7pm - Ceilidh Culture - The Village, 16 South Fort Street, Edinburgh
• 3rd Mar - Fête du Livre - Bécherel, Brittany, France
• 2nd Mar - Société Culturelle Les Amis da la Poésie - Bergerac, France
• 1st Mar - Helensburgh Saltire Society - United Reformed Church hall, West Princes Street, Helensburgh
• 1st Feb - Poems Aloud - Scottish Poetry Library, Crichton's Close, Canongate, Edinburgh, EH8 8DT

2007

• 13th Dec, 7pm - A Voice for the Silenced - The Poetry Club, Glasgow School of Art, 167 Renfrew Street, Glasgow
• 9th Oct, 6.30pm - Mondes Parallèles Launch Event - Institut Français d'Ecosse, 13 Randolph Crescent, Edinburgh
• 2nd Oct - Shore Poets - Orkney
• 1st Oct - Shore to Shore - Pier Arts Centre, Edinburgh
• 1st Aug - 9th Salon International du Livre Insulaire - Ouessant, Brittany, France
• 1st Jul - Moniack Mhor - Moniack Mhor
• 2nd Jun - The Bakehouse - Gatehouse of Fleet
• 1st Jun - Lahti International Writers' Reunion - Finland
• 1st May - 100 Favourite Scottish poems - Edinburgh
• 1st Apr - Women's History Conference - Lerwick, Shetland
• 8th Mar, 6pm - Word*Power - Word*Power, West Nicolson Street, Edinburgh
• 3rd Mar - Writer's Circle - Campbelltown Library
• 2nd Mar - The 100 Poets Gathering - St Andrews, Fife, Scotland
• 15th Feb, 1pm - Robert Louis Stevenson Celebration - Scottish Poetry Library, Crichton's Close, Canongate, Edinburgh, EH8 8DT
• 2nd Feb - Shetland Association - Leith Town Hall, Edinburgh
• 1st Jan - Shetland Association - Leith Town Hall, Edinburgh

2006

• 2nd Oct - Shetland Writing prize-giving - Lerwick, Shetland
• 1st Oct - Perth Libraries - Cairn O'Mhor Winery, Errol
• 1st Sep - Shore Poets - Canons' Gait, 232 Canongait, Edinburgh, EH8 8DQ
• 1st May - Iona Community Fundraiser - Netherbow Theatre, Edinburgh
• 1st Apr - International PEN - Colloque, Paris
• 1st Mar - Finnish and Latvian Women Poets - French Institute, Edinburgh
• 1st Feb - Penicuik Arts Centre - Penicuik

2005

• 1st Nov - Kingskettle Collieshangie - Kingskettle, Fife
• 1st Oct - Launch of Parallel Worlds - Blackwell's bookshop, 53-63 South Bridge, Edinburgh EH1 1YS
• 1st Sep - Launch of Parallel Worlds - WordPlay Book Festival, Lerwick
• 1st Aug, 7pm - 60/60 Anthology on Hiroshima - Gatehouse of Fleet
• 1st Jun - Language Across Frontiers - Scottish Poetry Library, Crichton's Close, Canongate, Edinburgh, EH8 8DT
• 3rd May - Language Across Frontiers - Town Hall, Lerwick, Shetland
• 2nd May - Festival of Scottish Writing - Central Library, Edinburgh
• 1st May - Radical Book Fair - Edinburgh
• 1st Apr - Shetland Family History Group - Shetland
• 1st Mar - Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama - Edinburgh
• 1st Feb - Shore Poets - Canons' Gait, 232 Canongait, Edinburgh, EH8 8DQ

2004

• 1st Oct - The Poetry Association of Scotland - Edinburgh
• 1st May - Shore Thing - Edinburgh University
• 3rd Mar - Stanza Poetry Festival - St Andrews, Fife, Scotland
• 2nd Mar - Kaleidoscope Writers' Group - Fife
• 1st Mar - Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama - Edinburgh

2003

• 1st Dec - The Royal College of Surgeons - Edinburgh
• 2nd Oct - Shore Poets - Canons' Gait, 232 Canongait, Edinburgh, EH8 8DQ
• 1st Oct - Poetry Festival - Bute
• 2nd Sep - Modern Scottish Women Poets Launch - Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
• 1st Sep - Shetland Book Festival & Children's Story Time - Lerwick, Shetland
• 2nd Jul - Launch of Hansel - Burrastow House, Shetland
• 1st Jul - Moniack Mhor - Moniack Mhor
• 1st May - Association of Scottish Literary Studies Conference - Kirkwall

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