Jenni Fagan – A Swan's Neck on the Butcher's Block
Rescheduled Launch Event
WithJenni Fagan
In conversation withEdward Crossan
On:3rd October 2024, 7:00pm - 8:00pm
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Please note that this event has been rescheduled for Thursday 3rd October, when we will celebrate National Poetry Day with Jenni Fagan for the launch of A Swan's Neck on the Butcher's Block.
We're excited that Jenni Fagan is coming back to the bookshop to celebrate the launch of her new poetry collection, A Swan's Neck on the Butcher's Block. It's always a pleasure to host an event with Jenni and we can't wait to hear her read from the collection and discuss it with her editor, Edward Crossan.
This event will take place in the bookshop with an in-person audience. There will be a signing after the event.
Vouchers can be redeemed on the night of the event against a single copy of A Swan's Neck on the Butcher's Block – we will have a list of attendees with vouchers to be redeemed. Please note that only one voucher can be redeemed per book.
About A Swan's Neck on the Butcher's Block:
Visceral, haunting and full of passion, verve and wit, this new collection from one of Scotland’s most original voices examines and explores the soul of humanity. Written with the same anarchic spirit of the Beat generation, the poems here respond to themes of identity, place, love and the unloved. A Swan’s Neck on the Butcher’s Block is an achingly honest, vivid collection that dares to challenge ideas of what it is to live and to be alive.
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Participants:
Jenni Fagan Author
Dr Jenni Fagan is an award-winning poet, novelist and screenwriter. After the publication of her debut novel The Panopticon, Jenni was selected as one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists. She has been on lists including the Desmond Elliott Prize, James Tait Black, Sunday Times Short Story Prize and the BBC International Story Prize. The Sunlight Pilgrims saw her win Scottish Author of the Year at the Herald Culture Awards. Her third novel Luckenbooth was praised in The New York Times Book Review, who named her The Patron Saint of Literary Street Urchins. In 2022, Polygon published her most recent novel, Hex, and The Bone Library, a poetry collection written during her time as a Writer in Residence at the Dick Vet Bone Library. In 2024, her memoir Ootlin is due to be published, as is her seventh poetry collection A Swan’s Neck on the Butcher’s Block. Fagan recently wrote two hundred poems for a collectors book called Heart of the Spirit, celebrating 200 years of The Macallan whisky.
Edward Crossan Chair
Edward Crossan is the Poetry Editor at Birlinn (Polygon).
The venue
The Portobello Bookshop
46 Portobello High Street
Edinburgh
EH15 1DA
Telephone: 0131 629 6756
Website: www.theportobellobookshop.com
Wheelchair Access
We have a ramp at the front of the shop which has a ratio of 1:10 and loading capacity of 300kg, and so should be able to be used by most wheelchair users or those with mobility vehicles. The front doors are fully automated. Our shop interior is designed to allow access throughout for wheelchair users and prams, though please note there is only 700mm wide clearance to access the staff toilet.
Sound
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