Wednesday 18 March
Wed 18 March | 6.00-7.30pm | Exhibitions Launch
StAnza Directors, artist in residence Al Buntin; music from Ferryport Fiddlers
The Byre Theatre, Abbey Street – Café Bar | free
Wed 18 March | 6.00-8.00pm | Poetry Theatre
Ruth Frame & David Campbell
The Byre Theatre, Abbey Street – Foyers
| free
Wed 18 March | 7.00-7.40pm | Festival Launch
First Minister Alex Salmond, poets Bill Manhire & Kate Clanchy, singer Sheena Wellington, Burning Burns with David Mach; music from Ferryport Fiddlers
The Byre Theatre, Abbey Street – Level 2 Foyer | free
Wed 18 March | 8.00-10.20pm | Sex & the Poet
In the Footsteps of Clarinda with Gill Bowman followed by Bawdy Burns: songs & poems from The Merry Muses of Caledonia with Sheena Wellington, Rod Paterson, Gill Bowman, Nigel Leask & Pauline Gray.
The Byre Theatre, Abbey Street – Auditorium | £9.00/£6.00
Wed 18 March | 10.30pm-12.00am | The Inklight Poets
Student poetry showcase – MC Jim Carruth
The Byre Theatre, Abbey Street – Bar & Bistro | free
Thursday 19 March
Thu 19 March | 10.00-11.15am | Poetry & Golf Walk
Poetic aspects of the ancient game, visiting the historic links: led by Maureen Jack
The Byre Theatre, Abbey Street – Theatre Garden | free
(Dependent on fair weather, please check with the StAnza desk.)
Thu 19 March | 10.30am-12.30pm | Across the Lines
Gerrie Fellows: collage workshop
St Mary's College Hall, St Mary’s Quad, South Street | £3.00
Thu 19 March | 11.15am-12.00pm | Lord Byron: Uncovering a Poet
David McClay, curator of the John Murray Archive at the National Library of Scotland.
The Town Hall, Queens Gardens – Council Chamber | £2.00/£1.50
Thu 19 March | 11.30am-12.30pm | Homecoming Poets
Reading: Peter McCarey, Stephen Scobie
The Town Hall, Queens Gardens – Supper Room | £3.00/£2.00
Thu 19 March | 1.00-1.45pm | Poetry Cabaret
A pie & a pint with Jim C Wilson
The Byre Theatre, Abbey Street – Studio Theatre | £6.00/£4.00
Thu 19 March | 2.15-3.15pm | Past & Present
Sophie Hannah on Edna St Vincent Millay
Jay Parini on Robert Frost
The Town Hall, Queens Gardens – Council Chamber | £3.00/£2.00
Thu 19 March | 2.15-3.15pm | In Person: 30 Poets
Film by Pamela Robertson-Pearce & Neil Astley
The Byre Theatre, Abbey Street – Studio Theatre | £3.00/£2.00
Thu 19 March | 3.30-4.30pm | The StAnza Discussion
Kate Clanchy, Stephen Scobie, Thomas A Clark, Peter McCarey, David Mach & Alan Riach (chair) discuss homecoming and Scottish identity
The Town Hall, Queens Gardens – Supper Room | £3.50/£2.00
Thu 19 March | 5.00-6.00pm | Five O’Clock Verses
Reading: Alan Riach, Gerrie Fellows
Parliament Hall, South Street | £5.00/£3.00
Thu 19 March | 8.00-10.00pm | Poetry Centre Stage
Reading: Robert Crawford, Kate Clanchy
The Byre Theatre, Abbey Street – Auditorium | £8.00/£5.00
Thu 19 March | 10.30-11.30pm | Poetry & Jazz Jam
Byre jazz session players & selected poets
The Byre Theatre, Abbey Street – Bar & Bistro | free
Friday 20 March
Fri 20 March | 10.00-11.00am | Poetry Breakfast
Roddy Lumsden, Les Robinson, Ben Wilkinson, Christie Williamson, Juliet Rees & Eleanor Livingstone (chair) discuss younger poets
The Byre Theatre, Abbey Street – Studio Theatre | £4.00/£3.00
Fri 20 March | 10.30am-12.30pm | Spinning Rhymes & Lines
Workshop: Alan Gillis: Structure and storytelling
St Mary's College Hall, St Mary’s Quad, South Street | £3.00
Fri 20 March | 11.15am-12.00pm | Tam O’Shanter and the Fairy Cult
Talk on Burns’ poem by Drew Clegg
The Town Hall, Queens Gardens – Council Chamber | £2.00/£1.50
Fri 20 March | 11.30am-12.15pm | Round Table
Intimate reading: Thomas A Clark
The Preservation Trust Museum, North Street | £5.00/£3.50
Fri 20 March | 11.30am-12.50pm | Roddy & The Pilots
Young Poets Reading: Adam O’Riordan, Ben Wilkinson, Abi Curtis, Jay Bernard, Emily Berry MC: Roddy Lumsden
The Town Hall, Queens Gardens – Supper Room | £3.00/£2.00
Fri 20 March | 1.00-1.45pm | Poetry Cabaret
A pie & a pint with Sophie Hannah
The Byre Theatre, Abbey Street – Studio Theatre | £6.00/£4.00
Fri 20 March | 2.15-3.15pm | Past & Present
Alan Gillis on Wallace Stevens
Jenny Bornholdt on Lorine Niedecker
The Town Hall, Queens Gardens – Council Chamber | £3.00/£2.00
Fri 20 March | 2.30-3.15pm | Trio Pas Lundi
Sound Poetry from Switzerland: Heike Fiedler, Alexa Montani & Marina Salzmann
The Byre Theatre, Abbey Street – Studio Theatre | £3.00/£2.00
Fri 20 March | 3.30-4.20pm | The StAnza Lecture
Homecoming: Jay Parini
The Town Hall, Queens Gardens – Supper Room | £3.50/£2.00
Fri 20 March | 5.00-6.00pm | Five O’Clock Verses
Reading: Julia Copus, Alan Gillis
Parliament Hall, South Street | £5.00/£3.00
Fri 20 March | 8.00-10.00pm | Poetry Centre Stage
Reading Simon Armitage, Bill Manhire
The Byre Theatre, Abbey Street – Auditorium | £8.00/£5.00
Fri 20 March | 10.15pm-12.00am | Risk A Verse
Open Mic with MC: Jim Carruth
The Byre Theatre, Abbey Street – Bar & Bistro | free
Saturday 21 March
Sat 21 March | 10.00-11.00am | Poetry Breakfast
Ian Rankin, Simon Armitage, Martin Newell, Stephen Scobie, Marco Fazzini & Roddy Lumsden (chair) discuss song lyrics as poetry
The Byre Theatre, Abbey Street – Studio Theatre | £4.00/£3.00
Sat 21 March | 10.00am-12.00pm | Masterclass
Led by Bill Manhire
The Town Hall, Queens Gardens – Supper Room | £4.00/£3.00
Sat 21 March | 11.15am-12.15pm | Homecoming Poets
Reading: Ros Brackenbury, Annie Boutelle
St John's Undercroft | £3.00/£2.00
Sat 21 March | 11.15am-12.00pm | Poets of the Enlightenment
Talk: Robert Crawford & Angus Peter Campbell
The Town Hall, Queens Gardens – Council Chamber | £2.00/£1.50
Sat 21 March | 11.30am-12.15pm | Round Table
Intimate reading by Simon Armitage
The Preservation Trust Museum, North Street | £5.00/£3.50
Sat 21 March | 12.00-2.00pm | Poetry Theatre
The Mermaids
The Byre Theatre, Abbey Street – Bar & Bistro | free
(Sat & Sun, 12 noon & 6.00pm)
Sat 21 March | 1.00-1.45pm | Poetry Cabaret
A pie & a pint with Roddy Lumsden
The Byre Theatre, Abbey Street – Studio Theatre | £6.00/£4.00
Sat 21 March | 1.00-2.00pm | Translated Poets: Lithuania
Reading: Kornelijus Platelis, Sonata Paliulyte (with Kerry Shawn Keys, translator)
The Town Hall, Queens Gardens – Council Chamber | £3.00/£2.00
Sat 21 March | 2.00-3.00pm | Children’s Show
Carol Ann Duffy & music from John Sampson
The Byre Theatre, Abbey Street – Auditorium | £4/£2/£6:family
Sat 21 March | 2.00-5.00pm | Poets’ Market
Presses big and small, pamphlets, magazines, curated by Alan Gay.
The Town Hall, Queens Gardens – Supper Room | free
Sat 21 March | 2.15-3.15pm | Voices of Scotland: Gaelic & English
Reading: Angus Peter Campbell, Stuart B Campbell
St John's Undercroft | £3.00/£2.00
Sat 21 March | 2.30-3.15pm | Not Another Word
Specially commissioned drama: Crispin Bonham Carter, Cralan Kelder & Clark Morgan
The Byre Theatre, Abbey Street – Studio Theatre | £3.00/£2.00
Sat 21 March | 3.30-4.30pm | In Conversation
Ian Rankin talks to Hamish Whyte
The Byre Theatre, Abbey Street – Auditorium | £7.00/£5.00
Sat 21 March | 5.00-6.00pm | Five O’Clock Verses
Reading: Jay Parini, Jenny Bornholdt
Parliament Hall, South Street | £5.00/£3.00
Sat 21 March | 6.00-7.45pm | Poetry Theatre
The Mermaids
The Byre Theatre, Abbey Street – Bar & Bistro | free
(Sat & Sun, 12 noon & 6.00pm)
Sat 21 March | 8.00-10.00pm | Poetry Centre Stage
Reading: Carol Ann Duffy, Patience Agbabi
The Byre Theatre, Abbey Street – Auditorium | £8.00/£5.00
Sat 21 March | 10.15pm-12.00am | The StAnza Slam
With MC: Elvis McGonagall
The Byre Theatre, Abbey Street – Studio Theatre | £4.00/£3.00
Sunday 22 March
Sun 22 March | 10.00-11.00am | Poetry Breakfast
Crispin Bonham Carter, Susan Roberts, Ros Brackenbury, Kenneth Price, Sonata Paliulyte & Neil Anderson (chair) compare the skills of actors and poets
The Byre Theatre, Abbey Street – Studio Theatre | £4.00/£3.00
Sun 22 March | 10.00am-12.00pm | Masterclass
Led by Douglas Dunn
The Town Hall, Queens Gardens – Supper Room | £4.00/£3.00
Sun 22 March | 11.15am-12.15pm | Voices of Scotland: Gaelic & Scots
Reading: Martin MacIntyre, Nancy Somerville
St John's Undercroft | £3.00/£2.00
Sun 22 March | 11.15am-12.00pm | Burns – the next 250 years
Talk by Drew Clegg
The Town Hall, Queens Gardens – Council Chamber | £2.00/£1.50
Sun 22 March | 11.30am-12.15pm | Round Table
Intimate reading by Carol Ann Duffy
The Preservation Trust Museum, North Street | £5.00/£3.50
Sun 22 March | 12.00-2.00pm | Poetry Theatre
The Mermaids
The Byre Theatre, Abbey Street – Bar & Bistro | free
(Sat & Sun, 12 noon & 6.00pm)
Sun 22 March | 1.00-1.45pm | Poetry Cabaret
A pie & a pint with Elvis McGonagall
The Byre Theatre, Abbey Street – Studio Theatre | £6.00/£4.00
Sun 22 March | 1.00-2.00pm | Translated Poets: Italy
Reading: Bianca Tarozzi, Elisa Biagini
The Town Hall, Queens Gardens – Council Chamber | £3.00/£2.00
Sun 22 March | 2.15-3.15pm | Voices of Scotland
Reading: Dilys Rose, Judith Taylor
St John's Undercroft | £3.00/£2.00
Sun 22 March | 2.15-3.00pm | The Land of Counterpane
Children’s Show: An afternoon of Robert Louis Stevenson themed poetry and play with Robert Crawford, Sara Lodge & Bill Manhire
The Town Hall, Queens Gardens – Supper Room | £3/£2/£5:family
Sun 22 March | 2.15-3.15pm | Out of his Head
Kenneth Price: One-man play on the life of poet W S Graham
The Byre Theatre, Abbey Street – Studio Theatre | £3.00/£2.00
Sun 22 March | 3.30-4.30pm | In Conversation
Siobhan Redmond talks to Susan Roberts
The Byre Theatre, Abbey Street – Auditorium | £7.00/£5.00
Sun 22 March | 5.00-6.00pm | A Bracingly Lovely Evening
Poems, tunes, gags & yarns with Martin Newell
The Byre Theatre, Abbey Street – Studio Theatre | £4.00/£3.00
Sun 22 March | 6.00-7.45pm | Poetry Theatre
The Mermaids
The Byre Theatre, Abbey Street – Bar & Bistro | free
(Sat & Sun, 12 noon & 6.00pm)
Sun 22 March | 8.00-10.00pm | Poetry Centre Stage
Reading: Peter Porter, Helen Dunmore
The Byre Theatre, Abbey Street – Auditorium | £8.00/£5.00
Sun 22 March | 10.00-11.30pm | Festival Finale
Heeliegoleerie: Eilidh Steel (fiddle), Mark Neal (guitar/cittern/vocals), Ali MacLeod (djembe drum)
The Byre Theatre, Abbey Street – Bar & Bistro | free
Exhibitions
Mon 23 February - Mon 30 March | 10.00am-10.00pm | Burning Burns
Match-head portraits by sculptor David Mach
The Byre Theatre, Abbey Street – Level 2 Foyer | free
Mon 23 February - Mon 30 March | 10.00am-10.00pm | Recorded Lines
Drawings by Tim Cockburn of poets & events at StAnza 2008
The Byre Theatre, Abbey Street – Bar & Bistro | free
Mon 23 February - Mon 30 March | 10.00am-10.00pm | Cowpit Yowe
Concrete poetry exhibition by Jim Carruth
The Byre Theatre, Abbey Street – Level 4 Gallery
| free
Wed 18 - Sun 22 March | 10.00am-10.00pm | Grove
Text interventions by Thomas A Clark
The Byre Theatre, Abbey Street – Foyers
| free
Wed 18 - Sun 22 March | 10.00am-10.00pm | Three Craws an Aa
Poetic ceramics by Susan McGill
The Byre Theatre, Abbey Street – Level 2 Foyer | free
Wed 18 - Sun 22 March | 8.00-8.00pm | Poetry Cinema
Loop showing of films by Tom Leonard, Dina Kafiris, Elmar Kuiper, Malgorzata Kitowski, Heiki Fiedler, Jelle Meander & Pamela Robertson-Pearce.
The Byre Theatre, Abbey Street – Conference Room | free
Wed 18 - Sun 22 March | 8.00-8.00pm | The Syllabary
Live showing of web site by Peter McCarey (various times)
The Byre Theatre, Abbey Street – Conference Room | free
Thu 19 - Sun 22 March | 9.30am-5.00pm | Byron & John Murray
A display of Byron material from the John Murray Archive of the National Library
Public Library, Church Square | free
9.30am-7pm Thurs; 10am-5pm Fri and Sat
Thu 19 - Sun 22 March | 10.00am-5.00pm | as others see us
Projection by broad daylight: responses to Burns
The Town Hall, Queens Gardens – Foyer/FCA&C | free
Thu 19 - Sun 22 March | 10.00am-10.00pm | Home to a King (3)
Installation by Alec Finlay
The Byre Theatre, Abbey Street | free
Thu 19 - Sun 22 March | 2.00-5.00pm | A Bright Glade
Work from Moschatel Press by Thomas A Clark & Laurie Clark
The Preservation Trust Museum, North Street | free
2pm-5pm weekdays; 10am-5pm weekend