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X-WR-CALNAME:Edinburgh · literary · next 7 days · CalDiscovery BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Folktales for New Scots - Free Art & Storytelling Workshops\, Peeb les DTSTART:20260918T230000Z DTEND:20260919T010000Z DTSTAMP:20260918T001659Z UID:10004271-1789776000-1789776000@esen.scot CATEGORIES:education,free,literary LAST-MODIFIED:20260918T001659Z URL:https://esen.scot/event/folktales-for-new-scots-free-art-storytelling- workshops-peebles-2/?utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=e dinburgh-scotland X-SOURCE-NAME:Edinburgh Social Enterprise Network X-SOURCE-URL:https://esen.scot/edinburgh-open-workshop END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:LGBTQ+ Book Tribe DTSTART:20260921T170000Z DTEND:20260921T183000Z DTSTAMP:20260904T003611Z UID:10001297-1790013600-1790019000@lgbthealth.org.uk CATEGORIES:community,literary DESCRIPTION:Join us for a relaxed and social LGBTQ+ book club. This is a s pace for LGBTQ+ people to come together and connect over a shared love of reading and books. \n  \nWe meet on the 3rd Monday of the month (6-7.30pm ) at LGBT Health and Wellbeing. \n  \nThe group will read a variety of b ook from different authors and genres. \n  \nFor more info\, email LGBTQ BookTribe@lgbthealth.org.uk or connect with us on Instagram @lgbtbooktri be. \n  \nWe are a community group led by community members with suppor t from LGBT Health and Wellbeing. LAST-MODIFIED:20260904T003611Z LOCATION:LGBT Health and Wellbeing (Edinburgh)\, 4 Duncan Place\, Edinburg h\, EH6 8HW\, United Kingdom URL:https://lgbthealth.org.uk/event/lgbtq-book-tribe/2026-09-21/?utm_sourc e=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=edinburgh-scotland X-SOURCE-NAME:LGBT Health and Wellbeing X-SOURCE-URL:https://lgbthealth.org.uk/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Eva Rothschild: artist’s talk and book launch DTSTART:20260921T173000Z DTEND:20260921T190000Z DTSTAMP:20260829T215631Z UID:10003162-1790015400-1790020800@www.fruitmarket.co.uk CATEGORIES:arts,literary DESCRIPTION:21.09.26\, 6.30–8pm. Free. \nArtist Eva Rothschild in conver sation with Fruitmarket Director\, Fiona Bradley to celebrate her exhibiti on The Void Presses The Wall\, and the new book that accompanies it. \nPub lished to celebrate an exhibition at Fruitmarket in Edinburgh\, this fully illustrated book features work from the last ten years alongside very rec ent sculpture\, finished as the book was going to press. New writing from Andrea Schlieker and Philippa Snow shed new light on Rothschild’s visual language. \n  \nPhoto: Neil Hanna. LAST-MODIFIED:20260829T215631Z URL:https://www.fruitmarket.co.uk/event/eva-rothschild-artists-talk-and-bo ok-launch/?utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=edinburgh-s cotland X-SOURCE-NAME:Fruitmarket X-SOURCE-URL:https://www.fruitmarket.co.uk/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Book Launch: Allan Cameron\, Things Can Only Get Worse DTSTART:20260922T173000Z DTEND:20260922T190000Z DTSTAMP:20260829T215631Z UID:10003165-1790101800-1790107200@www.fruitmarket.co.uk CATEGORIES:literary DESCRIPTION:22.09.26. 6.30–8pm \nWhilst indignation saturates Allan Came ron’s third collection\, Things Can Only Get Worse\, whose title is a re minder of Tony Blair’s unkept promises before his first mandate which le d us into another NATO war of aggression aimed at terrorising peoples and purloining the property of other nations\, this collection also praises th e humanity of the great majority of people everywhere. Although Cameron is a writer who goes in search of paradox\, there is no contradiction here. Valuing humanity in these cynical times goes hand in hand with outrage at the behaviour of the powerful and the politicians who serve them. \nWe liv e in a period of insane and unforgiveable violence inflicted by the West o n defenceless civilians with all the force of modern military technology. Of all the recent wars\, however\, Gaza takes on even greater demonic prop ortions not seen since the Second World War. Even silence is culpable in s uch circumstances\, so the poet has reorganised the collection in order to underscore the horrors we are witnessing\, whilst not forgetting that thi s genocide has historical roots in the European colonisation of the rest o f the world\, particularly Africa\, America and Australia. \n  \nAbout Al lan Cameron  \nBorn in 1952\, Allan Cameron went to boarding school at th e age of six while also living in Nigeria and Bangladesh during holidays a nd\, though he is no fan of such institutions\, he found that it gave him a very sound education which compensated for the naval college he moved to in 1965. Mutual dislike prompted an early departure in 1968\, and after t hat he could once more pursue his education while trying out various occup ations for fifteen years in Italy and England – too many to list. This p art of his life could be defined as “down and out in London and Florence ”. In 1983 he went to Sussex University and afterwards taught there for five years without tenure. In 1992 after moving to Glasgow\, his first tra nslated book was published and he went on to translate twenty-eight more o f them. In 2004 and 2005\, his first two novels were published by Luath Pr ess. Since then two more novels\, two poetry collections and two non-ficti on works have been added to his published works. The Scottish Review of Bo oks summed up his output: “… there is … in Cameron’s work\, a ling ering spirituality\, a faith that something soulful and significant is pre sent in the everyday\, in the ordinary ‘heroism of mortals’ he writes of. … he is dubious about ‘progress’\, political\, economic and scie ntific. … if Scottish literature has a true outsider\, it is not Irvine Welsh\; it’s Allan Cameron.” \nAbout Vagabond Voices\n\nFounded in 200 8 and based in Glasgow\, Vagabond Voices is an independent publisher that is both Scottish and fervently European in its aims. Vagabond is committed to introducing new titles from Scottish authors and translating fiction f rom other languages. Our library reflects our aims to promote literary amb ition and innovative writers\, and to challenge readers. LAST-MODIFIED:20260829T215631Z URL:https://www.fruitmarket.co.uk/event/book-launch-allan-cameron-things-c an-only-get-worse/?utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=edi nburgh-scotland X-SOURCE-NAME:Fruitmarket X-SOURCE-URL:https://www.fruitmarket.co.uk/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:A Book I Hated DTSTART:20260922T173000Z DTEND:20260922T193000Z DTSTAMP:20260829T215656Z UID:event_315589918@meetup.com CATEGORIES:literary DESCRIPTION:Edinburgh Book Group\nBy popular demand ...\n\nRather than rea ding a specific book this time\, we'll chat about books we disliked. Every attendee will have the chance to present one book and at the end of the s ession\, we'll take a vote and potentially read one of them for a later ev ent. Books are naturally subjective and often what one person dislikes\, a nother loves! LAST-MODIFIED:20260829T215656Z URL:https://www.meetup.com/edinburgh-book-gang/events/315589918/?utm_sourc e=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=edinburgh-scotland X-SOURCE-NAME:Edinburgh Book Group END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:QTIPOC Writers Group DTSTART:20260922T174500Z DTEND:20260922T190000Z DTSTAMP:20260908T003413Z UID:10001414-1790102700-1790107200@lgbthealth.org.uk CATEGORIES:literary DESCRIPTION:A space for Queer\, Trans\, Intersex People of Colour to meet other QTIPOC writers\, and explore and develop their stories and wri ting. \n  \nWe meet every 4th Tuesday (6.30-8.30pm) in person at LGBT Hea lth and Wellbeing. \n  \nYou can email us at joanna@lgbthealth.org.uk or phone LGBT Health and Wellbeing’s admin phone 0131 564 3970 and leave a message for us. We volunteer in our own time so there might be a delay i n getting back to you. \n  \nWe are a community group led by community members with support from LGBT Health and Wellbeing. LAST-MODIFIED:20260908T003413Z LOCATION:LGBT Health and Wellbeing (Edinburgh)\, 4 Duncan Place\, Edinburg h\, EH6 8HW\, United Kingdom URL:https://lgbthealth.org.uk/event/qtipoc-writers-group/2026-09-22/?utm_s ource=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=edinburgh-scotland X-SOURCE-NAME:LGBT Health and Wellbeing X-SOURCE-URL:https://lgbthealth.org.uk/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:1929: Inside the Crash (Andrew Ross Sorkin) DTSTART:20260922T190000Z DTEND:20260922T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260829T215656Z UID:event_315950975@meetup.com CATEGORIES:literary DESCRIPTION:Bonanza Non-fiction Book Club\nNB This may get moved to Octobe r\n\n**1929: Inside the Crash (Andrew Ross Sorkin)**\n\n*A New York Times Bestseller*\n\nFrom the bestselling author of Too Big to Fail\, “the def initive history of the 2008 banking crisis\,”\\* comes a spellbinding na rrative of the most infamous stock market crash in history. With the depth of a classic history and the drama of a thriller\, 1929 unravels the gree d\, blind optimism\, and human folly that led to an era-defining collapse —one with ripple effects that still shape our society today.\n\nIn 1929\ , the world watched in shock as the unstoppable Wall Street bull market we nt into a freefall\, wiping out fortunes and igniting a depression that wo uld reshape a generation. But behind the flashing ticker tapes and panicke d traders\, another drama unfolded—one of visionaries and fraudsters\, t itans and dreamers\, euphoria and ruin.\n\nWith unparalleled access to his torical records and newly uncovered documents\, New York Times bestselling author Andrew Ross Sorkin takes readers inside the chaos of the crash\, b ehind the scenes of a raging battle between Wall Street and Washington and the larger-than-life characters whose ambition and naivete in an endless boom led to disaster. The dizzying highs and brutal lows of this era eeril y mirror today’s world—where markets soar\, political tensions mount\, and the fight over financial influence plays out once again.\n\nThis is n ot just a story about money. 1929 is a tale of power\, psychology\, and th e seductive illusion that “this time is different.” It’s about disre garded alarm bells\, financiers who fell from grace\, and skeptics who saw the crash coming—only to be dismissed until it was too late.\n\nHailed as a landmark book\, Too Big to Fail reimagined how financial crises are t old. Now\, with 1929\, Sorkin delivers an immersive\, electrifying account of the most pivotal market collapse of all time—with lessons that remai n as urgent as ever. More than just a history\, 1929 is a crucial blueprin t for understanding the cycles of speculation\, the forces that drive fina ncial upheaval\, and the warning signs we ignore at our peril. LAST-MODIFIED:20260829T215656Z URL:https://www.meetup.com/edinburgh-book-club-meetup-group/events/3159509 75/?utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=edinburgh-scotland X-SOURCE-NAME:Bonanza Non-fiction Book Club END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Gay Men's Book Group DTSTART:20260923T180000Z DTEND:20260923T190000Z DTSTAMP:20260909T003615Z UID:10001410-1790190000-1790193600@lgbthealth.org.uk CATEGORIES:community,literary DESCRIPTION:Each meeting\, we discuss a chosen book\, and we’re sometime s joined by guest authors for part of the evening. \n  \nAlongside our bo ok discussions\, we also enjoy regular in-person social events including m eals\, walks\, and trips to the cinema or theatre. \n  \nEdinburgh Gay Me n’s Book Group meets on the 4th Wednesday of each month (7-8pm). Meeting s alternate monthly between online meetings via Zoom and in person meeting s at The Outhouse in Edinburgh. \n  \nIf you are interested in joining th e group\, please contact the group at edingaybookgroup@gmail.com or phon e LGBT Health and Wellbeing’s admin phone 0131 564 3970 and leave a me ssage us. We volunteer in our own time so there might be a delay in gettin g back to you. \n  \nWe regularly send out an email newsletter if you wou ld like to be added to the list please complete the contact form on our w ebsite. You can also find us on Twitter and Instagram @edingaybook. \n  \ nWe are a community group led by community members with support from LGB T Health and Wellbeing. LAST-MODIFIED:20260909T003615Z LOCATION:The Outhouse\, 12A Broughton Street Lane\, Edinburgh\, EH1 3LY\, United Kingdom URL:https://lgbthealth.org.uk/event/edinburgh-gay-men-book-group/2026-09-2 3/?utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=edinburgh-scotland X-SOURCE-NAME:LGBT Health and Wellbeing X-SOURCE-URL:https://lgbthealth.org.uk/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Book Launch: A Home in Space: Selected Concrete\, Visual and Sound Poetry of Edwin Morgan DTSTART:20260924T173000Z DTEND:20260924T190000Z DTSTAMP:20260829T215631Z UID:10003164-1790274600-1790280000@www.fruitmarket.co.uk CATEGORIES:literary DESCRIPTION:24.09.26. 6.30–8pm \nAn evening to discover and celebrate th e incredible body of visual and sound poetry by Edwin Morgan\, much of whi ch is rarely seen and will now be available in this significant new volume from Reaktion Books. This new selection reveals Edwin Morgan’s groundbr eaking multimedia poetics beyond his celebrated lyric voice. With editors Greg Thomas and Julie Johnstone\, poets Iona Lee and Dan Power\, and Morga n’s publisher\, bibliographer and friend\, Hamish Whyte. \nEdwin Morgan is best remembered as Scotland’s foremost national poet\, a bold\, lyric voice who shaped conversations around queerness\, politics and post-war l ife. But Morgan was also a restless experimenter working far beyond tradit ional verse. This book brings together\, for the first time\, the full ran ge of his visual and sound poetry – from vibrant poster poems and surrea list collages to concrete poetry\, cut-ups and sonic permutations. It reve als Morgan as a major figure in twentieth-century multimedia art\, linking language\, image and sound in surprising and timely ways. Attuned to ques tions of identity\, ecology and empire\, Morgan’s work remains as urgent and inventive as ever – a celebration of poetic form at its most expans ive and alive. \n––––––––––––––––––– –––––––––––––––––––––––– –––––––––––––––––––––––– –––––––––––––– \nGreg Thomas is a writer\, cri tic\, poet and artist based in Glasgow\, Scotland. He is the author of Bor der Blurs: Concrete Poetry in England and Scotland (2019) and has written extensively on visual and concrete poetries\, text art and multimedia art. \nJulie Johnstone is an artist\, curator\, editor and publisher based in Edinburgh\, Scotland. She works primarily in the artists’ book form and her bookworks are in numerous national collections. She was previously Hea d Librarian at the Scottish Poetry Library and established and curated the Edwin Morgan Archive held there. www.juliejohnstone.com \nHamish Whyte wa s born in 1947 near Glasgow where he lived before moving to Edinburgh in 2 004. A former librarian and Honorary Research Fellow in Scottish Literatur e at the University of Glasgow. Shoestring Press has published five collec tions\, the latest being A Spell of Watching: New & Selected Poems (2024 ). HappenStance published a memoir\, Morgan and Me\, in 2020 and he edit ed Edwin Morgan: Centenary Selected Poems (2020) for Carcanet Press. For many years he was Edwin Morgan’s Scottish publisher\, at the award-winn ing Mariscat Press. He has also compiled a bibliography of Morgan’s work . \nIona Lee is a writer from Edinburgh whose work encompasses poetry\, mu sic\, visual art\, and live performance. She has read her work in venues a nd on festival stages all over the UK and Europe\, from Shetland to Cornwa ll\, Paris to Berlin\, dive bars to the Royal Albert Hall. Her debut colle ction\, Anamnesis (Polygon\, 2023) won the Somerset Maugham Award\, and in 2024 she published What I Love About A Cloud Is Its Unpredictability (Tri ckhouse Press)  ̶  a collection of visual and concrete poetry created t hrough interactions with the geolocation software what3words. Iona’s wor k is concerned with themes of magic\, media\, art and artifice\, memory an d other hauntings. \nDan Power was shortlisted for the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award in 2024. His poems appear in Poetry London\, Poetry Ireland Review \, Gutter\, Magma\, Wet Grain\, and more. Dan is the founding editor of Tr ickhouse Press\, a publisher specialising in visual poetry\, and holds a P hD in Creative Writing from Lancaster University. His film poems have been exhibited at the Off-Page Vispo exhibition in 2025\, Beaconsfield Gallery in London\, and at StAnza: Scotland’s International Poetry Festival. Da n can be found on Instagram @therealdanpower\, or at danpower.xyz. \nAdva nced reviews: \nEdwin Morgan’s is the kind of poetry I want. A Home in Space is a multiverse chock full of concrete word-patterning\, sound-ups a nd cut-ups\, galaxies and constellations\, collages\, overlays\, typograph ic arrays\, acoustic riffs\, lettrist elations and noncesensical confabula tions\, graphic designs\, ur-computer inventions\, and iconoclastic ads an d icons. Greg Thomas and Julie Johnstone’s detailed\, historically infor mative\, and discerning introduction sets the stage for Morgan’s verbo-v isual-vocal – patalexical! polychromatic! – lollapalooza of a book.\nC harles Bernstein\, Donald T. Regan Professor Emeritus of English and Compa rative Literature\, University of Pennsylvania \nThis eagerly awaited stud y is a veritable triumph. Greg Thomas’s fine introduction ranges seamles sly over the intricate details of Morgan’s multifaceted career as a poet . The decision to reproduce many of the poetic texts in the versions that Morgan himself devised enhances the book’s historical importance.\nSteph en Bann\, Emeritus Professor of History of Art\, University of Bristol\, a nd editor of Concrete Poetry: An International Anthology (1967) \nA Home i n Space is a fantastic presentation of the extensive work of the Scottish visual/concrete poet Edwin Morgan. Greg Thomas and Julie Johnstone have cr eated an artfully curated volume that showcases the many dimensions of Mor gan’s practice – from his early scrapbooks through his explorations of typewriter\, graphic\, visual poetics in various media. Thomas’s initia l essay situates Morgan’s work in the context of twentieth-century liter ary activity\, making the case once and for all that visual poetry was a c entral – rather than marginal – component of modern aesthetics. For th ose unfamiliar with the poet\, this is a terrific introduction and\, for t hose already fans\, the book is an opportunity to appreciate the range and variety of Morgan’s thought and expression. So much of his work is scat tered and distributed in different venues and repositories and circulated in niche networks that the sheer effort of locating\, selecting and collat ing this collection is admirable. It’s such a pleasure to see the combin ation of solid research and beautifully designed publication honouring Mor gan’s creative spirit.\nJohanna Drucker\, author of Affluvia: The Toxic Off-Gassing of Affluent Culture (2025) and Inventing the Alphabet (2022) \ nThis is a marvellous book\, revealing for the first time the full range o f generous wit with which Edwin Morgan wrote radical new poetries. Here\, indeed\, are oodles of thrillingly self-estranging technical experiment an d much avant-garde mischief.\nDrew Milne\, Judith E. Wilson Professor of P oetics\, University of Cambridge\, and author of In Darkest Capital: Colle cted Poems LAST-MODIFIED:20260829T215631Z URL:https://www.fruitmarket.co.uk/event/book-launch-of-a-home-in-space/?ut m_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=edinburgh-scotland X-SOURCE-NAME:Fruitmarket X-SOURCE-URL:https://www.fruitmarket.co.uk/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Open Book Creative Writing DTSTART:20260924T180000Z DTEND:20260924T200000Z DTSTAMP:20260911T003152Z UID:10001462-1790276400-1790283600@lgbthealth.org.uk CATEGORIES:literary DESCRIPTION:Delivered in partnership with Open Book Reading\, we’ll be reading stories and poems aloud and using them to create our own writing i n a gentle\, guided session with Lead Reader\, Jess Orr. \n  \nNo experie nce required! Just a willingness to have a go in a safe and affirmative se tting. \n  \nFirst time? Find out what to expect from a session on this guide. LAST-MODIFIED:20260911T003152Z LOCATION:LGBT Health and Wellbeing (Edinburgh)\, 4 Duncan Place\, Edinburg h\, EH6 8HW\, United Kingdom URL:https://lgbthealth.org.uk/event/open-book-creative-writing/2026-09-24/ ?utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=edinburgh-scotland X-SOURCE-NAME:LGBT Health and Wellbeing X-SOURCE-URL:https://lgbthealth.org.uk/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR