Tarkovsky Review

A review of the reissue of Andrei Tarkovsky can be found here.

Reading at the West Port Book Festival

I'll be reading at the West Port Book Festival in Edinburgh, tomorrow night (13 October) at 2100. The venue is the Traverse Theatre Bar. See you there!

Wigtown Poetry Prize

I think I can now reveal the reason for my visit to Wigtown: I have won the 2011 Wigtown Poetry Prize. This was completely unexpected (so much so that I had even forgotten which poem I had entered when they emailed me to notify me that I'd won). We had been planning to go to the Wigtown Book Festival anyway, so to have go in an official capacity - as an author (I was given an Author Pass, which got me into David Vann's reading free) made the whole experience twice as good. You can read my winning poem by clicking the link above.

Reading in Wigtown, 1.10.11.

I'll be reading at the Wigtown Book Festival on its penultimate day, 1 October 2011 at 1630. More details to follow.

Reading in Edinburgh 16th August

I'll be appearing at Havers & Blethers Spoken Word show next Tuesday, 16th August. Show starts at 1900. The venue is the good old Captain's Bar in South College Street.

More info here. And here.

The Knights Templar - New Edition (2011)

The latest edition of The Knights Templar is now available. Just to quell any possible excitement, this "new" edition is exactly the same as the previous edition, the 2009 paperback, save for the fact that this new version doesn't have flaps or the map printed on the endpapers. Blame the recession/the Tories for this latest bit of cheap-skatery. It also has a new ISBN: 978-184243-5632. When I last checked, it wasn't on Amazon, but will no doubt be there soon, and should eventually supercede the 2009 edition. Happy Lunasagh!

Tarkovsky Reviewed in Total Film

The reissue of Andrei Tarkovsky (Kamera Books) is reviewed in the August edition of Total Film, out today. They have given it a good review, calling the book 'An ideal intro to the austere auteur.'

There is also an extract from the book in Little White Lies magazine issue 36 out this week.