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Wordly Wisdom for a short month

Wordly Wisdom for a short month

Resident poet J. A. Sutherland reports back on recent goings-down in the world of Edinburgh’s spoken word events – and keeps us up-to-date with its goings-on in a month short in days, but not in spoken words…

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Wordly Wise – wrapped-up regulars

Wordly Wise – wrapped-up regulars

Wending his way year end-wards, resident poet J. A. Sutherland is already looking to the next – and the regular spoken word spots worth marking in your diary. But first, here’s glory.

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A Week of Spoken Word

A Week of Spoken Word

Edinburgh’s stages are alive with all kinds of different performance. Saturday’s launch of Discover 21 was marked with an equal helping of poetry slam and theatre extracts. Here, occasional Æ reviewer and poetry performer J. A. Sutherland casts an eye over what is going down this week.

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