Forthcoming & recent
Saturday 2nd March 2013 (7.30 pm)
The Bakehouse, Gatehouse-of-Fleet
Stewart Conn reads from his recent
Mariscat pamphlet Estuary
Wednesday 28th November 2012 (6.00 pm)
Book Week Scotland at St Giles' Cathedral (free)
Stewart Conn reads from his Old Town poems,
with glances at Burns, Stevenson and others.
Caroline Snell (oboe) and Lynne Bulmer (flute)
Tuesday 13th November 2012 (8.30-9.30)
Burns Monument Centre, Kilmarnock (£8/£6)
“A Sense of Belonging”
Imprint Book Festival
Stewart Conn and William McIlvanney
read and discuss their work with Stuart Kelly
Saturday 13th October 2012 (1.30 for 2.00 pm)
Scottish Poetry Library, Edinburgh (free)
Launch of a new pamphlet Estuary (Mariscat Press)
with Alison Reeves (fiddle)
Sunday 26th August 2012 (11.00-12.00 noon)
Edinburgh Book Fringe/Festival of Spirituality and Peace
Poetry in the Persian Tent (behind St John's, Princes St)
with Eunice Buchanan & Mandy Haggith
Sunday 19th August 2012 (1.00-2.00 pm)
Edinburgh Book Fringe/Word Power Bookshop
Mariscat 30th anniversary reading
with Diana Hendry, James McGonigal & Angela McSeveney
Friday 28th October 2011 (12.00-1.00 pm)
Dundee Literary Festival
Bonar Hall, Dundee University
"Poem & a Piece" : reading
Friday 26th August 2011 (4.30–5.30 pm)
Edinburgh International Book Festival
RBS Main Theatre, Charlotte Square
2011 Scottish Book Awards event
Past
Stewart Conn has given many readings over the years at the Edinburgh International Book Festival and elsewhere: in the British Library's millenium season, at the Voice Box in the Royal Festival Hall, at the St Magnus Festival in Orkney, at Alloway on the 250th anniversary of Burns's birth, in the Scottish Poetry Library and at Poetry Festivals ranging from Aberdeen, Bath and Bristol to Tetova, Vilnius and Zagreb.
He and wind virtuoso John Sampson have presented 'Roull of Corstorphin' on a variety of occasions (including the Edinburgh Book Festival, the Old Town Festival, and for the Henrysoun Society in Dunfermline) since its first performance in the National Library of Scotland.
In 2010 he appeared at the Ullapool Book Festival, Aberdeen Word Festival and Wigtown Book Festival. In Oct 2004, during his tenure as Makar, he read Emissaries, which was specially commissioned for the occasion, at Edinburgh's World City of Literature presentation in the UNESCO building in Paris.
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