Aberdeen's popular monthly poetry gathering, with special guests, book launches
and open floor spots
Last Thursday of the month
Extra events in September during
New Words
December date varies to avoid holidays
6.30pm • Admission by donation
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Bernard Briggs and Margaret Preston
Thursday 23 February 2012
6.30pm–8pm
Admission by donation
Bernard Briggs and Margaret Preston read from their recent collections.
Bernard's A Hatching of Ghosts (Cauliay) and Margaret's Lovelorn (Matador)
were both published in 2011.
There will be an opportunity to buy both books on the night, and there will be the
usual open floor opportunities.
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Bernard Briggs writes: "I was born in 1957 in a small village in Sussex,
on the south coast of England. From eleven years of age I was educated at a Church
of England secondary school and had no real ambition beyond leaving school and getting
a job. It was a fairly sheltered environment; quiet and rural where life revolved
around the church and the changing seasons. I started writing poetry at that school,
but apart from some encouragement from an enthusiastic English teacher, didn't really
think there was much future in writing poetry. However I did continue to write slowly
and steadily for the next twenty odd years, until I received some positive feedback
on my poetry from fellow writers at a writers group I was attending. From that point
onwards I became more prolific; entering competitions; submitting work to publications
and so on, without success, until one day I met Michael Molden of Cauliay Publishing
at a poetry reading in Ellon, a small town just north of Aberdeen where my family
and I had moved some three years before. Michael invited me to submit poems for
an anthology he was planning and subsequently asked me to put together a collection
of my own."
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Margaret Preston studied flute with Richard Chester (RSNO). She has made
a few CD recordings: My Delyt, Music of Castle Fraser, and Beltane.
As a flautist she has free-lanced with RSNO, Concerto Caledonia, Aberdeen Sinfonietta,
and has played internationally.
Margaret enjoys writing music and poetry, contributing to 4th dimensions
at Limousin Bull and also to NEOS in 2007. In 2008 she was co-founder and chairman
of See, Salt and Sound. As well as her professional music commitments she
is presently working on her first novel.
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Links
Visit the
Cauliay Publishing
website.
Visit the
Matador
website.
Read more about
Margaret Preston
on her website.
Thanks to the staff of
Books and Beans
for hosting this event.
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2012 Programme
Thursday 26 January 2012
Gordon Campbell: Burns Scuppered
Thursday 23 February 2012
Bernard Briggs and Margaret Preston
Thursday 29 March 2012
Ian Crockatt and Maureen Ross
Thursday 26 April 2012
Paulina Vanderbilt: The Way
Archive
2012 Programme
2011 Programme
2010 Programme
Dead Good Poets
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