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SUMMARY:Night Walk for Edinburgh
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DESCRIPTION:Night Walk for Edinburgh is a 50 minute walk\, best viewed at 
 dusk\, which takes you through the closes and backstreets of Edinburgh’s
  Old Town. Following a film on your tablet or smart phone and a soundtrack
  on your headphones\, you will walk up Advocate’s Close and along a rout
 e that weaves around the Royal Mile before returning to where you started\
 , unravelling a disjointed tale – part game- playing\, part surrealistic
  poetry\, perhaps even a murder mystery – layered with history\, inventi
 on and memories. Cardiff and Miller’s Night Walk for Edinburgh is a per
 manent part of the Fruitmarket’s collection. Commissioned for the city o
 f Edinburgh by the Fruitmarket. \nTo participate in the walk\, you will ne
 ed to: \n\nDownload the Night Walk for Edinburgh App from the App Store 
 or Google Play and have 1Gb available for the HD film\nBefore you set off
  you need to download the film through the app onto your tablet or smartph
 one using a WiFi network.\nHave a set of working headphones for your devic
 e.\nDress for the terrain and the weather. If you have any further questio
 ns check out our Frequently Asked Questions page.\nOnce the film is downl
 oaded in the app head to the bottom of Advocate’s Close on Cockburn Stre
 et\, Edinburgh\, EH1 1ND. A map is available on the App.\n\nIf you are una
 ble to get to Edinburgh or unable to walk the route\, don’t worry as you
  can still download the film on your device and watch it when and where be
 st works for you. \nYou can download the Night Walk for Edinburgh Guide wh
 ich includes the list of performers HERE \nCommissioned for the city of E
 dinburgh by Fruitmarket.\nAcquired by the Fruitmarket with Art Fund suppor
 t. \nAnd supported by The Cardiff Miller Commission Circle \nRoyal Mile: D
 asha Shenkman OBE\, Nick Thomas \nOld Assembly: Melanie Reid \nAdvocates: 
 Sophie Crichton Stuart\, Fiona and Kenny Cumming\, Sarah and Gerard Griffi
 n\, \nCatherine Muirden and Werner Keschner\, William Zachs and Martin Ada
 m \nApp created by Evan Morgan \nApp developed with additional support fro
 m Art Fund and Creative Informatics and the Centre for Design Informatics
 \, University of Edinburgh.\n\nOngoing through January 4\, 2029.
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SUMMARY:Fresh Fruit 18-30s Workshop: The Room With the Objects: A speculat
 ive writing workshop
DTSTART:20260910T170000Z
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CATEGORIES:education,literary
DESCRIPTION:10.09.26\, 6-8pm. Free. For 18-30s. \nThis speculative writing
  workshop takes inspiration from Olga Ravn’s science-fiction novel The E
 mployees\, which chronicles the visceral\, emotional impact a room of obje
 cts has on the crew of a spaceship – and was initially written as an exh
 ibition text accompanying a collection of sculptures.  \n  \nMoving thro
 ugh the gallery\, participants are invited to write about their experience
  of Eva Rothschild’s The Void Presses the Wall\, attending to the sculpt
 ures’ material\, affective presences. Responding to a series of prompts\
 , we’ll use writing and deep attention to commune with the sculptures\, 
 sensing speculative relations between ourselves and the work.   \n  \n
 We reflect on the line between object\, sculpture\, and being. How would w
 e write about these sculptures if we discovered they were alive? Participa
 nts are invited to write two speculative texts: one\, a ‘scientific’\,
  clinical catalogue text to accompany the sculpture in an institutional se
 tting\; two\, an embodied first-person text drawing on emotion\, sensation
 \, and memory. We’ll end by returning to the gallery for (optional) coll
 ective sharing of our work\, reading around and to the sculptures.  \n  
 \nXuanlin Tham is a Singaporean writer\, curator\, and maker based in Edin
 burgh\, keenly interested in the (collective) body and desire. Their book 
 Revolutionary Desires: The Political Power of the Sex Scene explores the s
 ex scene’s capacity to interrupt the violences of capitalism\, and is ou
 t with 404 Ink. They programme at Take One Action\, an arts organisation h
 arnessing the transformative power of film and storytelling for social and
  environmental justice in Scotland and beyond. As an independent curator a
 nd facilitator\, they have worked with Glasgow Short Film Festival\, Queer
  East\, Rhubaba\, and the Edinburgh Art Festival. Xuanlin’s writing on f
 ilm and culture has been published in e–flux\, British GQ\, i-D\, Little
  White Lies\, and AnOther Magazine\, among others.  \n  \nAccess \n\nOur
  building has step-free access and is wheelchair accessible via a li
 ft.\n\n\nAll of our toilets and gender neutral.\n\n\nDuring events and 
 workshops\, we can facilitate a quiet space if required.\n\n\nWe have s
 ensory backpacks available.\n\n\nFurther access information can be fou
 nd at the link below:\n\nwww.fruitmarket.co.uk/accessibility/ \nIf you hav
 e any specific access requirements that you’d like to tell us about wh
 en you’re booking a Fresh Fruit workshop or event\, please let us know
  at info@fruitmarket.co.uk \nFresh Fruit is made possible with funding f
 rom the Garfield Weston Foundation and William Grant Foundation.
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SUMMARY:Wavetable #54
DTSTART:20260910T184500Z
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CATEGORIES:music
DESCRIPTION:10.09.26. Doors 7:45pm. Performances begin around 8:15pm. \nR.
 AGGS\nR.AGGS is the solo project of multi instrumentalist and songwriter R
 ay Aggs. A prolific specialist in euphoric post punk\, Aggs achieved inter
 national acclaim as a guitarist with touring projects Shopping\, Sacred Pa
 ws and Trash Kit and recently evolving as a fiddle player with Caliope\, T
 he Pegwells and Curlew. Their solo music brings together folk and punk thr
 ough an infectious mix of tropical wonky synths and a righteous force of m
 elody.\nhttps://www.instagram.com/R4ggs/ \nLuci Holland\nLuci is a compose
 r and sound artist who largely writes for games and film\, but lately has 
 been developing experimental\, ambient\, multi-instrumental sets with a mi
 x of oboe\, vocals\, double bass\, and effects – sometimes to accompany 
 dance and other live performances.\nhttps://luciholland.com \nObakegaku\n(
 Ben Jones) is an Edinburgh based sound designer\, musician\, visualist and
  livecoder. For tonight’s performance\, they will build & destroy a netw
 ork of experimental sound spanning their favourite genres.\nhttp://linktr.
 ee/obakegak
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SUMMARY:Pips!  Behind the scenes
DTSTART:20260914T093000Z
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CATEGORIES:arts
DESCRIPTION:14.09.26\, 10.30am-12pm. Free.\n\n\nJoin us with your baby for
  an informal visit to our archive with our Research and Public Engagement 
 Curator\, Ruth Bretherick. A chance to learn about Fruitmarket’s history
  through archival materials that date from 1984 onwards. \n\n\n\nIf art is
  an important part of your life\, this is an opportunity to find a little 
 moment to engage with it amongst the chaos of new parenthood. A relaxed\,
  welcoming atmosphere\, giving you space to talk and think about art and m
 eet like-minded parents and carers. Fuss and feeding expected. Baby chan
 ging facilities and buggy park available. \n\n\n10.30-11am – arrival\,
  park buggies\n11-11.45am – archive visit\n\n\nInstallation image\, Jean
 -Michel Basquiat: Paintings 1981–1984\, Fruitmarket\, 11 August 1984–2
 3 September 1984.\nImage courtesy of Sean Hudson archive\, National Galler
 ies of Scotland.
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SUMMARY:Hey! Student!
DTSTART:20260917T170000Z
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CATEGORIES:arts,drink
DESCRIPTION:17.07.26. 6–8pm. \nJoin us for a drink\, a chance to view Ev
 a Rothschild’s exhibition and hear about ways you can get involved in ev
 erything Fruitmarket\, from events to creative workshops! \nThe Void Press
 es The Wall is a major exhibition by London-based Irish artist Eva Rothsch
 ild\, whose work grows out of a commitment to sculpture’s capacity to cr
 eate bodily encounters in space. Her sculptures are born of the city and r
 edolent of the urban landscape. Some\, cast or constructed in bronze\, pla
 ster or steel\, are supported on plinths\, ‘behaving’ like sculptures 
 ‘should’\, while others stretch\, twist\, balance\, or form whole envi
 ronments in concrete\, polystyrene\, cotton and canvas that the viewer mus
 t negotiate. Her work creates a constant push-and-pull of the power dynami
 c between audience and object\, drawing attention to how we occupy space. 
 \nImage: Eva Rothschild\, Cursive\, 2026. Courtesy the artist\, Modern 
 Art and The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd.\, Glasgow. Photo: Keith Hun
 ter Photography
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SUMMARY:TFEH presents: JOHN BUTCHER & ANGHARAD DAVIES / FRITZ WELCH & FIRA
 S KHNAISSER
DTSTART:20260918T190000Z
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DESCRIPTION:18.09.26. 8–11pm. \nJOHN BUTCHER & ANGHARAD DAVIES.\nJohn ha
 sn’t played Edinburgh since the 80’s! Angharad is a regular visitor to
  our city but her last Edinburgh show was a little documented show in Fira
 s’s living room 10 years ago to audience of 4. Well\, it’s time to cha
 nge all that and bring these Cafe OTO regulars to Edinburgh’s brightest 
 cafe stage. Butcher and Davies have been crossing paths since the early 20
 00s — largely through the Common Objects collective — but only started
  performing as a committed duo a handful of times before recording Two Sea
 sons last year. This is still early days for this duo\, which is exactly w
 hat makes it so exciting… \nHere’s a snippet to keep you going until t
 he show https://johnbutcher1.bandcamp.com/album/two-seasons (there’s a r
 eview below) \nFRITZ WELCH & FIRAS KHNAISSER.\nPut one half of Hexacaikade
 cagon and one half of Off Brand and what do you get?  But is that even an
  accurate description of what our beloved Houstonian and your resident Bei
 ruti could be cooking up for this TFEH audience? Only time will tell… \n
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVsVshM6pOI&t=1297s \nThis show is a colla
 boration with 1.5 Months in Glasgow https://www.instagram.com/1point5month
 s/
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SUMMARY:Eva Rothschild: artist’s talk and book launch
DTSTART:20260921T173000Z
DTEND:20260921T190000Z
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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.
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Allan Cameron\, Things Can Only Get Worse
DTSTART:20260922T173000Z
DTEND:20260922T190000Z
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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.
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SUMMARY:Fresh Fruit 18-30s Workshop: sooooooft play (hard work?): A porcel
 ain handbuilding workshop
DTSTART:20260924T170000Z
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CATEGORIES:education
DESCRIPTION:24.09.26\, 6-8pm. Free. For 18-30s.  \nInviting participants 
 to respond to Eva Rothschild’s sculpture series Soft Play and film Safe\
 , 2026\, this porcelain handbuilding workshop will make use of intuitive a
 nd embodied sculpting methods to create playful\, abstract sculptures.  \
 nWe often associate porcelain with fragility\, as well as a gendered and r
 acialised performance of femininity. But in its wet clay state\, it is sof
 t\, slippery\, and highly malleable. Drawing on Rothschild’s thinking ab
 out gendered modes of engaging with objects in public space\, we’ll shap
 e and stretch wet porcelain to create emotional artefacts of ‘gender per
 formance’ and bodily experience. We’ll think about queerness\, masculi
 nity\, and femininity\, finding potential for gender disobedience and play
  in experiencing the soft and slippery. \nAs tactility comes to the fore\,
  participants are encouraged to respond more to feeling than an attempt to
  create pre-existing forms\; the potential structural collapse of these ob
 jects can become interesting stories to tell\, too. At the end of the work
 shop\, we’ll stage a mini exhibition of our work\, plotting our objects 
 in space together.  \nThis workshop especially welcomes queer and trans p
 articipants.  \nXuanlin Tham is a Singaporean writer\, curator\, and make
 r based in Edinburgh\, keenly interested in the (collective) body and desi
 re. Their book Revolutionary Desires: The Political Power of the Sex Scene
  explores the sex scene’s capacity to interrupt the violences of capital
 ism\, and is out with 404 Ink. They programme at Take One Action\, an arts
  organisation harnessing the transformative power of film and storytelling
  for social and environmental justice in Scotland and beyond. As an indepe
 ndent curator and facilitator\, they have worked with Glasgow Short Film F
 estival\, Queer East\, Rhubaba\, and the Edinburgh Art Festival. Xuanlin
 ’s writing on film and culture has been published in e–flux\, British 
 GQ\, i-D\, Little White Lies\, and AnOther Magazine\, among others.  \nAc
 cess \n\nOur building has step-free access and is wheelchair accessi
 ble via a lift.\n\n\nAll of our toilets and gender neutral.\n\n\nDuring e
 vents and workshops\, we can facilitate a quiet space if required.\n\
 n\nWe have sensory backpacks available.\n\n\nFurther access informatio
 n can be found at the link below:\n\nwww.fruitmarket.co.uk/accessibility/ 
 \nIf you have any specific access requirements that you’d like to tell
  us about when you’re booking a Fresh Fruit workshop or event\, please
  let us know at info@fruitmarket.co.uk \nFresh Fruit is made possible wi
 th funding from the Garfield Weston Foundation and William Grant Foundatio
 n.
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: A Home in Space: Selected Concrete\, Visual and Sound
  Poetry of Edwin Morgan
DTSTART:20260924T173000Z
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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–––––––––––––––––––
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 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
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SUMMARY:Silent Reading Group
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DESCRIPTION:Last Monday of the month\, 6–8pm. £4 which can be redeemed 
 at the cafe on the night. \n\n\nThe Silent Reading Group events are hosted
  by Publishing Scotland\, in association with UNESCO Edinburgh City of Lit
 erature. Enjoy the time and space to read whatever you like in a convivial
  and welcoming atmosphere alongside other friendly bookworms. \n\n\nEach m
 onth we have a guest author join us for a reading and book signing – for
  our September event\, our guest author will be novelist Olga Wojtas\, who
  will read from her novel\, Miss Blaine’s Prefect and the Parcel of Rogu
 es. \n  \n\nEvent Schedule\n6pm – 6.15pm: Welcome\n6.15pm – 7.15pm: I
 ntroduction and Silent Reading\n7.15pm – 7.30pm: Guest author talk / Rea
 ding\n7.30pm – 8.00pm: Book Chat / Book Buying / Author Signing\nBring y
 our own book\, buy a book from the Fruitmarket bookshop\, or take a book 
 from the UNESCO Edinburgh City of Literature book box.
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SUMMARY:Fresh Fruit 18-30s Workshop: Be/Longing
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DESCRIPTION:01.10.26\, 6-8pm. Free. For 18-30s.  \nIn Be/Longing attendee
 s will work towards a written poem responding to the themes of place and b
 elonging raised by Rothschild’s exhibition. We will use her film ‘Safe
 ’ as well as her sculpture installations to kick off a wider discussion 
 about specific spaces we might personally have felt welcome or discomforta
 ble in. We will think about what specific aspects of our identities create
  these relationships with certain spaces\, and how we might feel different
 ly if we were able to experience them from outside our own perspectives. T
 here will be time at the end to share our work but this is completely opti
 onal!!  \nGwenhwyfar Ferch Rhys is a writer and spoken word artist from t
 he Scottish Borders. After being appointed a young makar by the Scottish P
 oetry Library\, she performed at festivals such as StAnza\, Dandelion\, an
 d Wigtown\, as well as on ITV News and BBC Radio Scotland. In 2022 she mov
 ed to Dublin to study English Literature and Classical Civilisations at Tr
 inity College\, where she founded and thrice-captained the TCD poetry slam
  team\, placed in the top 8 at the All-Ireland Poetry Slam\, and became Ed
 itor-in-Chief of Icarus\, Ireland’s oldest arts journal. During this tim
 e she also studied creative writing in Melbourne\, where she headlined Mix
 ed Bag poetry night. In 2025\, her debut solo show [ac]quiesonce premiered
  at the Edinburgh Fringe. Since graduating\, she has competed at slams lik
 e Loud Poets Dumfries and Paisley’s Storytree\, returned to the Fringe w
 ith her new show After Pride Comes\, and begun writing for Snack magazine.
  Her work has been published in Gutter\, Poetry Wales\, and Voiceworks\, a
 s well as by Bloomsbury\, 404Ink and Arachne Press\, amongst others. Acros
 s all forms she works in\, her writing is consistently situated at the int
 ersection of the personal and political\, of myth and history\, and of ang
 uish and whimsy.  \nAccess \n\nOur building has step-free access and 
 is wheelchair accessible via a lift.\n\n\nAll of our toilets and gender
  neutral.\n\n\nDuring events and workshops\, we can facilitate a quiet
  space if required.\n\n\nWe have sensory backpacks available.\n\n\nFurthe
 r access information can be found at the link below:\n\nwww.fruitmarke
 t.co.uk/accessibility/ \nIf you have any specific access requirements that
  you’d like to tell us about when you’re booking a Fresh Fruit wor
 kshop or event\, please let us know at info@fruitmarket.co.uk \nFresh Fr
 uit is made possible with funding from the Garfield Weston Foundation and 
 William Grant Foundation.
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SUMMARY:Fresh Fruit 18-30s Workshop: Be/Speaking
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DESCRIPTION:08.10.26\, 6-8pm. Free for 18-30s. \nBe/Speaking will again fo
 cus on themes of place and belonging\, but this time attendees will work t
 owards a spoken word performance\, focusing on techniques such as use of b
 ody language and non-verbal sound in order to convey meaning and express o
 urselves rather than word choice alone. We will again draw inspiration fro
 m Rothschild’s work under this different lens\, particularly looking at 
 ‘Safe’ for how relationships to place can be expressed without/alongsi
 de language. Attendees who participated in the Be/Longing workshop on 0
 1.10.26 are welcome to bring their written pieces from that session to ada
 pt into performance pieces. New attendees are encouraged to bring along a 
 relevant piece of writing related to the themes of place and belonging to 
 use for this workshop. \nIt’s recommended to attend both of Gwenhwyfar
 ’s workshops on 01.10.26 and 08.10.26\, as the second session develops 
 what participants have written in the first. However\, this is not mandato
 ry. \nGwenhwyfar Ferch Rhys is a writer and spoken word artist from the Sc
 ottish Borders. After being appointed a young makar by the Scottish Poetry
  Library\, she performed at festivals such as StAnza\, Dandelion\, and Wig
 town\, as well as on ITV News and BBC Radio Scotland. In 2022 she moved to
  Dublin to study English Literature and Classical Civilisations at Trinity
  College\, where she founded and thrice-captained the TCD poetry slam team
 \, placed in the top 8 at the All-Ireland Poetry Slam\, and became Editor-
 in-Chief of Icarus\, Ireland’s oldest arts journal. During this time she
  also studied creative writing in Melbourne\, where she headlined Mixed Ba
 g poetry night. In 2025\, her debut solo show [ac]quiesonce premiered at t
 he Edinburgh Fringe. Since graduating\, she has competed at slams like Lou
 d Poets Dumfries and Paisley’s Storytree\, returned to the Fringe with h
 er new show After Pride Comes\, and begun writing for Snack magazine. Her 
 work has been published in Gutter\, Poetry Wales\, and Voiceworks\, as wel
 l as by Bloomsbury\, 404Ink and Arachne Press\, amongst others. Across all
  forms she works in\, her writing is consistently situated at the intersec
 tion of the personal and political\, of myth and history\, and of anguish 
 and whimsy.  \nAccess \n\nOur building has step-free access and is wh
 eelchair accessible via a lift.\n\n\nAll of our toilets and gender neut
 ral.\n\n\nDuring events and workshops\, we can facilitate a quiet spac
 e if required.\n\n\nWe have sensory backpacks available.\n\n\nFurther a
 ccess information can be found at the link below:\n\nwww.fruitmarket.co.
 uk/accessibility/ \nIf you have any specific access requirements that you
 ’d like to tell us about when you’re booking a Fresh Fruit workshop
  or event\, please let us know at info@fruitmarket.co.uk \nFresh Fruit i
 s made possible with funding from the Garfield Weston Foundation and Willi
 am Grant Foundation.
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SUMMARY:Both Hands — Be Like A Mountain In A Moonlit Way Album Launch Pa
 rty
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DESCRIPTION:Sunday 25.10.26. 2–7pm. \nAdults £15 + booking fee · Child
 ren over 5 £5 + booking fee · Under 5s FREE \nEdinburgh synth-pop duo Bo
 th Hands celebrate the release of their debut album Be Like A Mountain In 
 A Moonlit Way with a very special afternoon of live music\, performance\, 
 and visuals at Fruitmarket Warehouse. \nReleased via Lost Map Records\, th
 e album brings together Hailey Beavis’s distinctive vocals and surreal\,
  confessional lyrics with Brian Pokora’s dreamy\, wonky electronic produ
 ction\, creating a strange\, joyful and beautiful world somewhere between 
 synth-pop\, trip-hop and experimental electronic music. \nFor the launch\,
  Both Hands will bring that world to life in a specially created live show
 \, alongside Accident Machine\, Thundermoon and Supper Club DJs. \nExpect 
 big synths\, infectious electronic pop\, unusual sounds\, homemade visual 
 magic\, performance and plenty of dancing in the wonderful warehouse at Fr
 uitmarket. \nAnd bring the kids! This is a daytime\, all-ages album launch
 \, designed to be enjoyed by grown-ups and little ones alike. Children are
  very welcome to come along and experience the music\, dancing and visual 
 world of Both Hands. Children aged 5 and under go free\, with tickets for 
 children over 5 available for £5. \n  \nBoth Hands\nAccident Machine\nTh
 undermoon\nSupper Club DJs
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Elizabeth Cook: Tumbling
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DESCRIPTION:I thought I would still be the me\nthat I was when you lived w
 hen\nyou died. I could not then see\nthat your death would bereave\nme not
  only of you but of me. \n\n\n\n\nThe poems in Tumbling are written from l
 oss — of partner\, friend and family. There is grief but also curiosity 
 and openness to the sometimes surprising ways in which these essential rel
 ationships persist and change. The poems are written with Cook’s charact
 eristic precision and intensity — never heavy and with humour often brea
 king through. \nReadings from Michael Stephenson and Elizabeth Cook.\nMusi
 c from The Self-Righteous Brothers.\n\n\nElizabeth Cook was brought up in 
 Dorset\, lived in Suffolk with her late partner and now lives in East Lond
 on. Her poetry includes two collections from Worple Press (Bowl and When I
  Kiss the Sky) and a pamphlet (The Sound of the Rain) from The Garlic Pres
 s. Her fiction includes Achilles (Methuen) and Lux (Scribe). She has taugh
 t in universities\, prisons and a Franciscan friary and has written the li
 bretto for a Passion oratorio. \nThe painfully touching poems of grief and
  mourning in Elizabeth Cook’s Tumbling\, are so necessary\, so luminous 
 that they comfort and sustain us. \n\n\nMICHAEL LASKEY \n\nMariscat is now
  one of the longest-running self-funded small presses in Scotland. The ‘
 jewel in the Scottish poetry crown’ (Ian McMillan)\, Mariscat has twice 
 won the Michael Marks Publishers’ Award (2023 & 2015). The press is know
 n for its tastefully designed publications and a quality backlist which in
 cludes work by figures such as Douglas Dunn\, Diana Hendry\, Stewart Conn\
 , Jackie Kay and Michael Longley\, as well as many publications by Edwin M
 organ\, Whyte’s friend for over 30 years.
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