Saturday, December 11, 2010


The St. Andrews based yearly poetry festival will soon be upon us!
The programme for StAnza 2011 is now online. I'm really excited about going especially since I missed it this year. My plan is to head up on the Friday and stay until the Sunday.
After a quick look at the events, the one's I'll be hoping to get tickets for will be the intimate reading with John Burnside, the Marilyn Hacker / Paul Farley reading, a workshop with Claire Crowther on The Fatrasie (whatever that is, but a workshop with Claire Crowther on anything poetry-wise will be fantastic!), lunch and poetry with Hugh McMillan (Shug!) event, the Selima Hill and Philip Gross reading, and the Ciaran Carson Masterclass. Does this not sound like a fantastic weekend?!

5 comments:

Titus said...

Wow, you're so on the ball with this! Lunch with shug? Does one have to pay?

Titus said...

You can have breakfast with him too!

Marion McCready said...

yes and he's pricey ;) lol

James Owens said...

Sounds like a fantastic weekend! I'd love to sit in on that class with Ciaran Carson. (The word verification is "meth". How's that for a post about poets???)

Marion McCready said...

I'm (fearfully) contemplating sending a poem in for the Carson masterclass...
meth, is that myth with an american accent? ;)