Geopoetics Day in Glasgow’s West End on 25th April
A Guided Walk in Victoria Park to the Fossil Grove, our AGM & Tony McManus Lecture in Scotstoun Stadium + Evening Meal & Ceilidh.
This is our main live event in Scotland this year so please join us for a great day out!
You can book your place by clicking here.
Itinerary:
10.15 Meet at the Main Gates in Victoria Park Driive North. Free parking.
10.30 Arrive at the Fossil Grove to see the amazing fossil tree stumps explained by a geologist.
11.30 Walk round Victoria Park, Whiteinch, Glasgow – in search of the grey heron!
12.30 Lunch in Scotstoun Leisure Centre
13.15 Annual General Meeting in the Club Deck, Scotstoun Stadium
Great news: we will be proposing that Bridie Ashrowan and Patrick Corbett are elected as Co-Directors of the Scottish Centre for Geopoetics!
14.45 Tea, coffee break
15.00 The Tony McManus Lecture: A History of Radical Publishing in Scotland 60 Years of Magazine Culture 1963-2023 by Mike Small, Editor of Bella Caledonia.
This talk will explore the lineage of radical publishing in Scotland from the Sigma Portfolio – which Alexander Trocchi and Kenneth White contributed to, to literary journals such as Merlin and political publications such as Peace News and International Times (edited by Tom McGrath) and the Black Dwarf, all part of what William Burroughs called the Underground Media. It will explore the connections between the late 1960s Scottish International Review (SI), John Holloway and Richard Gunn’s Common Sense journal, the publishing of Gramsci via Hamish Henderson and the emergence of the sort of platforms that would give space to Variant, Calgacus, Harpies & Quines, and Radical Scotland amongst many others.
+ Q&A
16.20 Kenneth White in Japan in the footsteps of Matsuo Basho. A documentary film never shown in the UK before with an introduction by Gilles Fabre on how Haiku influenced Kenneth White’s poetry and geopoetics.
17.00 Close
18.00 Evening Meal and Ceilidh at Kudos Cafe, 1122 Argyle Street Finnieston. Bring along some of your poems and songs to share.
Recommended donation £6-£10 or what you can afford. Lunch and evening meal not included.
All donations for this event, apart from venue costs, will go towards a Kenneth White Bursary to enable an artist to develop geopoetics during a residential week in our Scottish Centre for Geopoetics research and resource base on the Isle of Luing in Argyll.
