Thursday 23 September 2010
7pm – 9pm

Review by
Mark Pithie

Eddie Gibbons moved from Liverpool to Aberdeen in a previous century. A prizewinner in the inaugural Edwin Morgan International Poetry Competition, 2008, he has four poetry collections published by Thirsty Books. His latest work, What They Say About You, is published by Leamington Books, Edinburgh. His next publication will be with Calder Wood Press, Dunbar.

Eddie appeared at StAnza 2010 in his own Poetry Cabaret.

An enthusiastic anti-golfer, he was an Official Poet at the Golf Open Championship 2010 in St Andrews, where he read football poetry with missionary zeal.

Olivia McMahon is widely published as a poet in magazines such as Stand, Mslexia, Cutting Teeth, Pushing Out the Boat. Her publications include Domestic Verses (Koo Press) and two novels — Love as a Foreign Language and Rose-tinted Scissors. She is presently working on a Collected Poems.

Catriona Yule is a poet, short story writer and playwright. Her first poetry collection, Shedding Skin, was published in 2007 and her poems have appeared in Poetry Scotland (website), Northwords Now and Pushing Out the Boat. She has recently had poetry accepted for Poems in the Wind and for Decanto magazine.

See www.catrionayule.co.uk for more.

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North East Writers
Poetry Aberdeen

Supported by

Scottish Book Trust
The Coffee House