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Mermaid Indoors

Basil du Toit

29 Apr 2022
The winning poem of last year's Wigtown Poetry Prize to celebrate the launch of this year's competition.
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The Return of the Brownie

25 Jan 2022
For Year of Stories 2022, we asked Hugh McMillan to write a sequel to William Nicholson's much-loved 'The Brownie of Blednoch'. The result is joyful but also a lament for a vanishing tongue.
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Hello, Stranger Poems

Whin Ah get back tae NYC

28 Sep 2021
For our 2021 festival we commissioned a series of poems on the theme of "Hello Stranger". Here Hugh Bryden imagines being reunited with New York.
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Solway

Alan McClure

4 Oct 2020
The eleventh, and final, in our 2020 festival series of readings by poets from Dumfries & Galloway.
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Solway Shore

Annie McCrae

3 Oct 2020
The tenth in our 2020 festival series of readings by poets from Dumfries & Galloway.
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Gear Shift

Gill Butler-Orli

2 Oct 2020
The ninth in our 2020 festival series of readings by poets from Dumfries & Galloway.
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Me and Katie Morrison, The Watergaw

Josie Neill

1 Oct 2020
The eighth in our 2020 festival series of readings by poets from Dumfries & Galloway and a special exclusive for National Poetry Day.
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The Sadness of Second Hand Books

Anndra Wilson

30 Sep 2020
The seventh in our 2020 festival series of readings by poets from Dumfries & Galloway.
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Climbing Criffel

Gillian Mellor

29 Sep 2020
The sixth in our 2020 festival series of readings by poets from Dumfries & Galloway.
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Vanishing Point

Martin Joseph O Neill

28 Sep 2020
The fifth in our 2020 festival series of readings by poets from Dumfries & Galloway.
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The Gardener’s Diary

Jeanette Abendstern

27 Sep 2020
The fourth in our 2020 festival series of readings by poets from Dumfries & Galloway.
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Beyond Criffel

Peter Roberts

26 Sep 2020
The third in our 2020 festival series of readings by poets from Dumfries & Galloway.
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Scenes of The Solway

Celia Donovan

25 Sep 2020
The second in our 2020 festival series of readings by poets from Dumfries & Galloway.
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Water birth

Fiona Lindsay

24 Sep 2020
The first in our 2020 festival series of readings by poets from Dumfries & Galloway.
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Catch and Release

Beverley Bie Brahic

9 Apr 2020
Beverley Bie Brahic won the Alastair Reid Pamphlet Prize in the 2019 Wigtown Poetry Prize: read her collection here.
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