Gerry Cambridge lives in Ayrshire, where he founded the transatlantic magazine The Dark Horse, Scotland’s leading poetry journal, in 1995. His sixth full collection of poems is The Light Acknowledgers (Happenstance Press, 2019) and he is also an essayist, naturalist, print designer and typographer. He lived in an Ayrshire caravan for twenty years. A former Brownsbank and Royal Literary Fund Fellow, in his early twenties he was (as far as he knows) one of the youngest-ever regular freelancers, specialising in nature articles for the UK Reader’s Digest, which in the 1980s had a monthly circulation of 1.5 million copies.
All Sessions by Gerry Cambridge
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Day 2
16th October 2021
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11:00
Reading and Discussion: Let's get Critical
11:00 - 12:00The world of poetry criticism is often a turbulent place. Who is reviewed, who does the reviewing, the role of prizes and what constitutes ‘quality’, the role of the critic, who is being excluded or amplified - we’ve come a long way from ‘but does it rhyme…’. Naush Sabah is the editor of Poetry Birmingham, one of the most dynamic and inspiring new journals in poetryland. Gerry Cambridge has been a poet, editor and observer of Scottish letters for more than thirty years, at the helm of the eminent Dark Horse. Colin Herd is a poet and lecturer at University of Glasgow and has published five ambitious, analytical, and satisfying poetry collections. Join them to investigate the issues in contemporary poetry criticism. Expertly chaired by JL Williams.
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Day 3
17th October 2021
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13:00
Reading and Discussion: George MacKay Brown Centenary
13:00 - 14:00Push the Boat Out has the honour of celebrating the centenary of the late and great George Mackay Brown. GMB was a giant of Scottish letters yet had a distinctly outsider sensibility. His musicality, his blending of fable and realism, and his placement of Orkney at the centre of his world have made an indelible and lasting impact on writers and artists of many stripes since. Join Gerry Cambridge, mentored by GMB himself, whose Dark Horse magazine owes GMB's support a debt of gratitude, and a band of other contributors to explore his legacy: Linden Bicket, scholar of his work; Malachy Tallack, editor of Simple Fire, Carve the Ruins, and An Orkney Tapestry, the centenary editions of GMB's works; Roddy Woomble, Idlewild frontman; Caithness writer George Gunn; and Nalini Paul, GMB fellow and contributor to a new anthology of poems inspired by him and his writing.
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