Young Verses with Score Scotland
5:00 pm - 5:45 pm
Join the young people from Tynecastle High School as they share poetry, spoken word music and stories created with Bee Asha and Kat Borrowdale (for Push the Boat Out) and Davie Luhanga (for SCOREScotland).
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An Open Book Tour of Scotland
11:45 am - 12:40 pm
Join Open Book writers from across the country for a session packed with humour, storytelling and words to make you think. You’ll hear a mixture of individual work and collaborative poems responding to themes such as Measuring, Comfort, Friendship, One Last Time, and many other things in between.
Get TicketsWriting Between Languages
1:15 pm - 2:15 pm
Discover the creative potential which exists between and within languages, with performances from three incredible poets. Between them Ghazal Mosadeq, Asmaa Azaizeh and Robbie MacLeòid write across English and Persian, Arabic and Gaelic. Join them for a multilingual poetical adventure!
Get TicketsMigration and Memory
12:00 pm - 12:55 pm
Learn what the future of Scottish poetry looks like in this double bill with Roshni Gallagher and Clementine Ewokolo Burnley: two joint winners of the 2024 James Berry Poetry Prize, whose newly released debut collections each explore the porous boundary between past and present, asking what remains after once-familiar places and people have gone.
Get TicketsRevisiting the Epic
2:00 pm - 2:55 pm
Christopher Nolan’s film of The Odyssey ignited a surprisingly hot debate around the interpretation of classical epics. Join researcher James Oakley and poets Cai Tianxin and Spencer Mason to discuss the epic form: its orality, tropes and enduring popularity.
Chaired through the ConVERSE Emerging Chairs Programme with the University of Edinburgh
Get TicketsStrange Architecture
4:00 pm - 4:55 pm
In 2025, Kevin P. Gilday spent two months in Prague, writing a poetry cycle inspired by the city’s brutalist buildings. Kevin will read from these alongside JL Williams, whose new collection, Strange Architectures, details her nightly dreams of buildings during lockdown. Both poets reflect on how the spaces we inhabit inform our lives.
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