Byre World 24/25: Poetry from the Mine (and elsewhere) Hosted by Dr Gavin Bowd, from the School of Modern Languages - FREE but please book
To mark the beginning of the Festival of Languages and the fortieth anniversary of the 1984-1985 miners' strike, Gavin Bowd and acclaimed poet Paul Malgrati will present and read the work of three miner-writers: the Fifer Joe Corrie, the Belgian Constant Malva, and the Frenchman Jules Mousseron. Paul will then present his French translations of their precursor, the Ploughman Poet himself, Robert Burns. He will conclude with a reading from his own Poèmes écossais, shortlisted for the Edwin Morgan Poetry Prize.