Poetry audiences in Dumfries have a rare opportunity next month to see award-winning American poet August Kleinzahler. One of the freshest and most exciting poets of his generation August is coming to Scotland for Stanza, Scotland’s poetry festival, which takes place in St Andrews. His poems have a deceptive simplicity - they can sound like someone recounting an anecdote in a café but the listener is suddenly aware of listening to great wisdom.
August will read both his own poems and his favourite poems by other people, as part of the Scottish Poetry Library ‘Selected Works’ series. He will be presenting the poems in conversation with the SPL Reader Development Officer. The Scottish Poetry Library have been running this series successfully in Edinburgh, and are bringing the event to Dumfries as part of the ongoing partnership with Dumfries and Galloway Library Service and DGAA, which has seen the opening of an SPL collection at the Ewart Library. Lilias says: “The Scottish Poetry Library collection in Dumfries is one of our most popular outreach collections, and it’s great to have this opportunity to hold events here.”
Literature Development Officer Andrew Forster says: “The audience for poetry events in Dumfries and Galloway has grown considerably over the last few years. It’s wonderful for us to be able to work with Stanza and the SPL to bring poets of the stature of August Kleinzahler to Dumfries. This is an evening not to be missed!
August Kleinzahler’s Selected Works takes place at the Robert Burns Centre Film Theatre on Monday 17th March at 7.00pm. Tickets cost £7.00 (£5.00 concession) and available from Andrew Forster on 1387 253383 or andrew@dgaa.net.
August will read both his own poems and his favourite poems by other people, as part of the Scottish Poetry Library ‘Selected Works’ series. He will be presenting the poems in conversation with the SPL Reader Development Officer. The Scottish Poetry Library have been running this series successfully in Edinburgh, and are bringing the event to Dumfries as part of the ongoing partnership with Dumfries and Galloway Library Service and DGAA, which has seen the opening of an SPL collection at the Ewart Library. Lilias says: “The Scottish Poetry Library collection in Dumfries is one of our most popular outreach collections, and it’s great to have this opportunity to hold events here.”
Literature Development Officer Andrew Forster says: “The audience for poetry events in Dumfries and Galloway has grown considerably over the last few years. It’s wonderful for us to be able to work with Stanza and the SPL to bring poets of the stature of August Kleinzahler to Dumfries. This is an evening not to be missed!
August Kleinzahler’s Selected Works takes place at the Robert Burns Centre Film Theatre on Monday 17th March at 7.00pm. Tickets cost £7.00 (£5.00 concession) and available from Andrew Forster on 1387 253383 or andrew@dgaa.net.
