The Bakehouse presents…
Saturday January 28th 7.00pm for 7.30pm

~ Poetry Reading with Douglas Lipton ~

Douglas Lipton will read from Flora and Fauna of an Independent Scotland as well as other, more recent pieces which delve into the blackly comic underbelly of human experience. He is sure to balance his reading this evening with Songs for the Fallen Angel (a requiem for Lockerbie) as well as drawing on his mariscat collection, The Stone Sleeping Bag, The Outside World, Fairy Tales, Hale-Bopp Poems and other work.

Douglas Lipton writes in Scots and English, and there's always the danger that he might erupt into song as well. Ticket includes traditional Scottish snack food and remedying drink in honour of Mr R Burns, plus The Bakehouse Bowl of Fame... you have been warned! 'A tour-de-force... terse, irreverent and riddled with cheeky one, two and three-liners... (used) brilliantly to convey, sometimes lewdly, but always colourfully, a peculiar species of Scottish gallows humour.'
The Scotsman

£6.00/£5.00 concs (includes a glass of wine or warming hot toddy)
Contact: 01557 814196

Found Poetry Workshop with Dorothy Alexander

Take a Walk on the Wild Side of Writing!

Monday 6th February
1-4pm (reading 3pm)

Crichton Campus, Dumfries(Drama Studio, Rutherford McCowan Building)

Macallan prizewinning writer Dorothy Alexander presents an innovative workshop designed to unleash your creativity, followed by a reading from her own work.

‘Found poetry – the rearrangement of words
from other sources to create new meanings…’

Bring along a book, magazine or other printed material (doesn’t need to be literary!) and prepare for a fun and stimulating session.


Dorothy Alexander is passionate about poetry. She holds an MLitt in Creative Writing from Glasgow University and is currently writing a PhD focusing on poetics. Her PhD project involves devising experimental poetic techniques to transform her own prose fiction into poetry.

Open to all with an interest in exploring their wilder writing side – not just poets!

Book by emailing andrew@dgaa.net, or ring 01387 253383 for more information. Tickets £3.

Tom Pow Wow!

Warm congratulations to Dumfries poet Tom Pow, one of 22 Scottish artists shortlisted for a coveted Creative Scotland award. Up to ten awards of £30,000 are earmarked for innovative projects by leading figures in the Scottish arts community. Tom's in the running with an exploration in poetry and prose of the shadowy life and work of Thomas Watling, Dumfries Convict Artist - the first professional artist in Botany Bay.

Hamish MacDonald 2006 Robert Burns Talks

Hamish MacDonald, Robert Burns Writing Fellow for Dumfries and Galloway Arts Association, explores how the poet's image has been used to promote everything from shortbread recipes to political ideologies.

Tues 17th Jan 7.30pm
Kirkcudbright Literary Society, Lesser Town Hall, Kirkcudbright
Tues 24th Jan 7pm
The Old Well Theatre, Moffat
Thurs 26th Jan 7pm
Kirkconnel Parish Heritage Society, The Cabin, Main Street, Kirkconnel
Tues 31st Jan 7pm
Bladnoch Distillery, Wigtown
Thurs 2nd Feb 7pm
Studio Theatre, Rutherford McCowan Building,
Glasgow University Crichton Campus, Dumfries

Info: Andrew Forster, DGAA, 01387 253383 or andrew@dgaa.net
Admission free.