Blue Diode Double Launch

Name: Blue Diode Double Launch
Start: 2024-11-11T19:00:00+00:00
End: 2024-11-11T22:00:00+00:00
Location: 4a Haddington Place, EH7 4AE Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Schedule

Mon Nov 11 2024 at 07:00 pm to 10:00 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

4a Haddington Place, EH7 4AE Edinburgh, United Kingdom | Edinburgh, SC

New poetry collections from Olga Stehlíková and Christopher Crawford, also with Alycia Pirmohamed and James Appleby.
Olga Stehlíková is a Czech poet. Her debut book of poetry, Týdny (Weeks, Dauphin 2014), won the Magnesia Litera Book Prize for poetry, the premier Czech poetry prize. She has published three further collections in Czech and several award-winning books for children. Though the Sky Is Embroidered by a Zigzagging Bat (Blue Diode Press, 2024) is the first comprehensive selection of Olga Stehlíková’s poems to be published as a book in English translation.
Christopher Crawford’s poems have appeared in magazines like Agenda, The Rumpus Online, Plume, Puerto del Sol, Rattle, and The Cortland Review. Born and raised in Scotland, he’s an ex-offshore oil worker but now lives in Prague where he edits the online literary journal, B O D Y (bodyliterature.com) and works in the digital tech industry. Divorcee Disco Music (Blue Diode Press, 2024) is his first poetry collection.
Alycia Pirmohamed is the author of the poetry collection Another Way to Split Water (Polygon Books and YesYes Books). Her nonfiction debut A Beautiful and Vital Place won the 2023 Nan Shepherd Prize for nature writing and is forthcoming with Canongate. Alycia currently teaches on the Creative Writing master’s at the University of Cambridge.
James Appleby is a poet, editor and translator. His original poetry is published in The London Magazine and his translations in Asymptote. As editor of Interpret, Scotland's magazine of international writing, he has published winners of the Neustadt Prize and translated winners of the International Booker. His upcoming debut pamphlet, Spurious Language, was commended in the International Book & Pamphlet Competition. He was born in Manchester in 1993.