Janette Ayachi


Janette Ayachi is a London-born Edinburgh-based Scottish-Algerian poet. She has been published in over eighty literary journals and anthologies from presses such as Polygon; Seren, Jessica Kingsley London and Salt’s ‘The Best British Poetry of 2015’. She collaborates with artists; engages in numerous projects, performances, readings and exhibitions. Her filmpoems have been selected for screening at festivals and she was the founder and editor of online magazine The Undertow Review bringing art and poetry into a multidisciplinary forum. Her essays and poetry have been published internationally, translated into Greek, French and Spanish. She has been Digital Poet in Residence and Sessional Tutor for The Poetry School London, and Visiting Poet on a Teaching Residency for the students of Arcadia University, Philadelphia. Her first full poetry collection Hand Over Mouth Music (published by Pavilion: University of Liverpool Press) won The Saltire Poetry Book of the Year Literary Award 2019. Janette is currently working on her book Lonerlust: A Poet’s Memoir, a nonfiction narrative about desire and travelling alone searching connections between landscapes, culture and human connection.

All Sessions by Janette Ayachi

  • Day 2

    16th October 2021

  • 12:00  - 14:00
    Skittles, Scran & Stanzas
    with Michael Pedersen, Janette Ayachi, Peter Mackay

    —includes a pub lunch, a drink, three readings, the chance for eternal skittling glory— In honour of the Poetry Mile interactive poem-y app, we bring you a one-off celebration reading, feasting and game of skittles. The venue, of course, Scotland’s oldest inn—The Sheep Heid, situated in the historic Duddingston Village. A short game of skittles will be punctuated by readings from three prize-winning, Edinburgh-based poets and contributors to the app: Michael Pedersen, Janette Ayachi, and Peter McKay, one of the three having being Chief Pin Monkey at this very skittle alley for a period of their youth. Each of the three will offer a unique take on Edinburgh’s historic centre and the faces, places, and curious cases that furnish its craggy gradients. ‘[The Sheep Heid is] a firm favourite among past monarchs and poets, and Scotland's oldest surviving watering hole exudes charm and character from every nook and cranny’.

    You can join a collective walk from Summerhall to The Sheep Heid Inn leaving at 12pm (sharp!) from the entrance of Summerhall with our Comms Manager and Poetry Mile poet Julia Sorensen or simply meet the party at The Sheep Heid at 12:30pm and soak up the majesty of the gargantuan extinct volcano that towers over Edinburgh and Duddingston Village beyond.
    *Poetic tips on skittling are included.
    **Strikes alas are available only at your own discretion.

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