This year Poetry Doubles brings world-class poetry events to venues across Dumfries and Galloway, from Stranraer to Sanquhar, and Dumfries to Castle Douglas.
This varied and exhilarating programme links international poets with regional talent, bringing you a great opportunity to hear today’s poetry at its best.
Robin Cairns is that rare beast, a stand-up poet. Bringing an irreverent Glasgow humour to the usually solemn 
business of poetry he has blazed the spoken word at comedy clubs and ceilidhs, at rock festivals and reading-rooms. And yes, he will be doing his celebrated poem about being on the receiving end of corporal punishment in school, the one about the fierce and fearful teacher by the name of “Old Lochgelly”.
Rab Wilson, poet and Robert Burns Writing Fellow, recently launched his Horace’s First Buik o Satires to great 
acclaim at the Wigtown Book festival. Horace’s Satires, among the towering literary achievements of Ancient Rome, get a vibrant and bawdy new lease of life from Rab’s ‘owersettin’. Rab also sits on the parliamentary working group on Scots Language, advising on ways of strengthening and preserving Scots language in the 21st century.
