Not to be missed - Poetry Doubles starts from across the pond!

Look forward very much to seeing you at the Robert Burns Film Centre Theatre this Thursday 12th at 7pm for the start of 2010's Poetry Doubles season. 
And it's a big start, with visiting-from-USA renowned poet George Wallace, who will share the stage at RBCFT with our own talented Lynn Otty.  There follows a bit of blurb...

George Wallace is an American poet and poetry activist, who has created a grassroots network of venues for poetry stretching from downtown New York to Penrith, Kendal and now Dumfries. George is very much a performance poet, and his imaginative work is both deceptively simple and strongly rhythmic. As well as being a renowned poet, George is the editor and publisher of Poetry Bay, an on-line magazine.  'Whitman has snuck into Wallace – that same marrowy vigour, the uninhibited reach, that headlong urgency…except that, with Wallace, his narrative shirt-buttons are all undone.’
Mario Petrucci.
Lynn Otty is a Canadian who grew up on the prairies. She has lived in South West Scotland since the 1970s. Her poetry and short stories have appeared in a number of anthologies and literary magazines. The Scottish Association of Writers highly commended her work at their annual conference this spring. She says “I am a late starter and always thought of myself as a writer-in-waiting. Never quite figured out what it was that I was waiting for so decided I’d better get writing.”

There.  It'll be great!  See you on Thursday!