The Poet’s Way 12th November 23
Hello dear Poetry Wayfarers- Sunday 12th November- zoom door opening at 5:15pm for a prompt start at 5:30 – ending around 9pm; including one short comfort break and a longer 30 to 40 minute break for refreshment and writing time. NB. This is an in-person hybrid event. If you’re within an hour of Glasgow, please come to the Glasgow Buddhist Centre: 72 Berkeley St (G3 7DS), sharing space with the Glasgow Unitarian Church.
Bring a poem to screen share, your own or a favourite published poem. If attending “live in-person”, please bring 4 copies of the poem you want appreciated.
Awakening to the power of poems to compliment & enhance our spiritual practice. Inspired by Manjusvara’s book The Poet’s Way (Jane Hirshfield says “this book offers warm-hearted, step-by-step awakening into the possibilities and powers of poems”.
Please bring a poem to share – yours or a published poem you’d like to hear appreciated through a deep reading. For people on zoom, please be prepared to screen share. If attending in-person, please bring 4 copies of the poem you’d like appreciated.
The zoom link will open at 5:15 for a 5:30pm start.
Future dates: 10th December
Steadfast Trickster book launch 1:30pm 25th November in the Mitchell Library, Glasgow and on zoom – in partnership with the Scottish Writers’ Centre and the Mitchell Library
Forthcoming PSP Publication: Steadfast Trickster tributes to the life and times of Robin Lloyd Jones. Please book via Ticket Source for both zoom and in-person.
“Robin first came into my life when he asked me to publish Autumn Voices, and send a letter to Creative Scotland to support his grant application, stating I would publish the book. I agreed, sent the letter to CS and he was awarded a grant of about £13,500 to cover the cost of research, interviewing twenty-one published writers in Scotland who were over seventy years old – and curating pieces they had published since turning seventy. . . .” Contributors include Robin’s wife Sallie Lloyd-Jones, son Glyn, daughters Kally and Leonie, grandchildren Chloe, Cassandra and Andre, colleagues and readers – Mary Irving, Dougie MacKenzie and Simon Berry and Sheila Templeton. I’ve had the privilege of compiling and editing the Steadfast Trickster.
READ FICTION DIRECT
On my way to Dhanakosa to lead a writing and taiji retreat with Linda France, I dropped into Sally and Iain’s bookshop in Callender. Almost feels like a pilgrimage as I enter the shop, shake hands with Iain, talk to the chickens in the garden and find Sally in the green house butchering a deer roadkill. Morelle Smith and Sally Evans have started a new press extending Diehard at the Callander Press: “Morelle and Sally decided they believed in their work enough to produce their own books. They would band together, edit and typeset their books co-operatively, and pay for their own printing, believing they could break even by selling the books under the new imprint Fiction Direct. This got rid of their need for backing from third parties who could not afford to invest in them anyway. They would involve more writers.”
December Sales
PlaySpace Publications – all prices reduced
| TITLE | PRICE |
| 13 Ways of Making Poetry a Spiritual Practice | £2.00 |
| Autumn Leaves by Tom Leonard | £1.50 |
| Bringing Mindfulness to Life | £12.00 |
| Brushes With War | £1.00 |
| bundles of bog cotton | £5.00## |
| Burning Words | £3.00 |
| Bute Poems | £2.00 |
| Butterfly Bones | £5.00 |
| C – Sense Greetings | £1.50 |
| Circuito Sanxet | £3.50 Ψ |
| Covid Comfort | £2.00 |
| Earth Water Fire Air | £3.00 |
| Embrace the Whole card | £1.00 |
| Heartwork by Linda France | £5.00 ΩΩ |
| How Ripples Happen | £3.00 |
| It Takes You a Lifetime to Become Yourself | £2.00 |
| Living on the Edge of Uncertainty | £2.00 |
| Living Our Dying | £12.00 Ω |
| Requiem | £5.00* |
| The Art of Doing Nothing | £1.50 |
| The Earth Is Our Home | £5.00 |
| The Earth Says | £1.50 |
| The Path that Leads to the Whole Wide World | £2.00 |
| The Unfinished Hut | £4.00 |
| Today Today Today | £4.00 |
| Tributes to Tom Leonard | £3.00 |
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