Poetry Scotland

Callander Poetry Weekend 2007 (7-9 September)

For those who couldn't make it, here's a summary of

Who Did What

Friday afternoon reading (in the garden - right)
Daizan (Julian Skinner), Etta Dunn, Morelle Smith, Juliana Geer, Les Merton, Colin Will, Bill Pickard, Sally James
Food and friendship
 
Ian King, Rosemary McLeish, Derek Read
Makars Reading - Rowena Love, Sheila Templeton, Michael Malone


L-R Rowena, Sheila, Michael

Windfall launches - Ian Blake, Sally Evans, Rob Mac Ille Chiar
Rob
Les Merton's launch
Les
Saturday  
Sonnet Breakfast
Readings  
Michael Malone, Deborah Tyler-Bennett, Alan Gay, Lucinda Carey, Derek Read, Maureen Weldon, Ian Blake, Mike Penney, Margaret Gillies Brown, Chris Powici
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Bill Pickard's launch
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A C Clarke, Ann Mackinnon, Kevin Murphy, Rowena Love, Robin Cairns, Robert Ritchie, Bashabi Fraser, Alistair Paterson, Sheila Templeton, Rosemary McLeish
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Kemal Houghton, Sheena Blackhall, Judy Taylor

Deborah Tyler-Bennett

 


Alan Gay
 
Ian Blake
 
Margaret Gillies Brown
 
Chris Powici
 
Bill Pickard
 
A C Clarke
 
Robert Ritchie
 
Kevin Murphy
 
Bashabi Fraser
 
Sheena Blackhall
Deconstructing a poem, Colin Will & Deborah Tyler-Bennett  
Reading - Heather MacMillan, Fred Beake, Morelle Smith, Daizan, Margaret Gillies Brown
Morelle Smith
 
Daizan (Julian Skinner)
Evening entertainment
Onya Wick (Kemal Houghton, Maureen Weldon, Mike Penney), Sheena Blackhall - songs and poems , Sally James - Lancashire dialect poems , ClyLevLom (Alistair Paterson, Fiona Croeser, Denis Day, Doreen Hopwood, Sue Hemmings)
 
Sunday  

'Round Table' discussion on Arthur and Arthurian legends
 
Reading
The Scottish Pleiadians (A C Clarke, Ray Evans, Derek Read, Tracy Patrick, John Savage, Marc Sherland, Robin Cairns)

John Savage
 
Marc Sherland
 
Robin Cairns
Closing Readings - Colin Will, Juliana Geer, Elizabeth Rimmer, Maureen Weldon, Billy Letford, Katrina Shepherd, Jean Thewlis, Sally Evans, Les Merton, Magi McGlynn

Juliana Geer
 
Elizabeth Rimmer
 
Sally Evans
 
Maureen Weldon
 


On the left is Liz Price, who recorded many of the sessions. Also Daizan, Judy Taylor, Fred Beake, Lucinda Carey (standing).

 
Magi McGlynn

Apologies if I've inadvertently missed anyone out, or mis-spelled their name. Please email me with corrections.

A report by Deborah Tyler-Bennett on the Arthurian discussion, and a bibliography by Elizabeth Rimmer, can be accessed
on this supplementary page.

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