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David Kinloch in conversation with Donny O’Rourke

Join us at the Scottish Poetry Library on 15th November where David Kinloch, one of the notable Scottish poets of his generation, will be in conversation with poet and teacher Donny O'Rourke!

David Kinloch in conversation with Donny O’Rourke

About David Kinloch in conversation with Donny O’Rourke

David Kinloch is one of the notable Scottish poets of his generation. His friend Edwin Morgan admired his 'sparkling poems full of sensuous richness and linguistic inventiveness'; and Douglas Messerli declared, 'David Kinloch is surely one of the most innovative poets ever to come out of Scotland ... [his] readers must be prepared to take a long voyage through language, imagination, and space. While it isn't always easy, it's always worth the trip.' This is his fifth Carcanet collection. It includes a distillation of his earlier work, and new poems that delight and challenge. Morgan praised his success in the 'impossible genre', the prose poem, his elegies, his flytings. He has been an activist as well as a poet, founding the magazine Verse and establishing the first Scottish Writers' Centre.

David will be in conversation with poet and teacher Donny O'Rourke.

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