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.
Dennis O’Driscoll is an international poet who ‘you can commend unequivocally to anyone with a heart and a mind. O’Driscoll’s crisp, unobtrusively musical precision gets to the heart of so many subjects, large and small’ Robert Potts, The Guardian.
JoAnne McKay is an up-and-coming talent from Penpont whose poetry packs a real punch. Her first poetry pamphlet, The Fat Plant, is a skilful collection whose poems are taut and laced with black humour. For Poetry Doubles McKay unveils her new poetry pamphlet, Venti, which examines the symbolic role nature has played in the history of mankind.
