Ch-ch-check it out! Some fantastic news about our fantastic friends:
- How pleased were we to hear our friend Sinan Antoon on NPR a couple days ago? Massively! A really interesting panel discussion about the state of poetry. Sinan makes some great points about poetry / capitalism. Worth a listen!: Poets Tell The Stories Of Their Countries
- Some names for you to look out for when you’re reading your copy of the new Chapman magazine: Benjamin Morris, Cynthia Rogerson (Moniack Mhor), and Rob A. Mackenzie – editor, friend, and forthcoming reader at the Golden Hour! Get your copy from the Chapman website: here!
- Claire Askew and Tom Pow have poems in the Scottish Poetry Library’s Best Scottish Poems anthology 2009. Well done!
- Ryan Van Winkle has a new poem called Challenger (1986) published in Stone’s Throw Magazine. It references the Challenger disaster which he remembers watching and re-watching as a kid in Mrs. Ewar’s 4th grade Social Studies class. You can read it right here.
- We’re so excited to have BURNT ISLAND playing at the Golden Hour this March 24th. Check out what people are saying about their debut album, MUSIC AND MATHS:
“A beautiful collection of folk pop laments…fragile, haunting, and often sounds timeless.” THE SCOTSMAN ****
“An impressive calling card… Glass has an idiosyncratic approach to song writing, with well-crafted lyrics spilling over one another like a meditative Kevin Rowland.” SUNDAY HERALD, ****
“Beautiful and understated…an auspicious debut” THE LIST, ****
“Refreshes the parts that wistful indie does not normally reach…undulates with subtle melody.” SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY
WELL DONE Rodge & co.!
- And some stunning congratulations are due to Andrew Philip whose debut collection The Ambulance Box has made the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book Awards 2010 first-book shortlist! Our fingers are crossed for you, sir!
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Alright gang, that’s the lot of it for now.
Don’t forget to give us a shout (at forest.publications@gmail.com) if you’ve got great news for us to share. We love that stuff!
Hope you’ll come out to see us this Wednesday at the Golden Hour. And then chum us along on our 2010 Highlands Tour. WE ARE YOUR FRIENDS!