Dear Listers
You may recall a rather panicky request for help in putting together a poetry fest in Scotland some months back. I had terrific support from many of you, and just want to say thanks for that. And now the good news is that the Alloa Poetry Jamboree is confirmed as a going concern, running 2 - 4 November, and featuring Tom Leonard, Lila Matsumoto, Peter Manson, Drew Milne, Bill Herbert, Andrew Duncan, Jim Ferguson, Donny O'Rourke, Kathleen Jamie, Dorothy Alexander, nick-e melville, David Kinloch, Samantha Walton, Frank Kuppner, Gerry Loose and Jennifer Williams.
Below is the link for the e-brochure - a beautiful production, with only one spelling mistake that I can spot. Please spread the word, and if you can get along so much the better. It's a fairly rare case of a council-funded, community-oriented event of the sort usually monopolised by High Street poetry featuring such greater breadth of work, and healthy audiences may mean it runs next year too.