Society of Authors in Scotland Poetry reading
9 December @ 19:00 - 21:00 GMT
Join us for a night of Scottish poetry hosted by poet Tom Bailey with readings from Iona Lee, Colin Bramwell and Zainab Imran.
This event is a chance for poets and readers to come together and celebrate some of the great new poetry that Scotland has to offer. There will also be an opportunity for SoA members to share their own work.
Tickets for this event are free, and can be booked via Typewronger Books’ Eventbrite page here. Refreshments will be available to purchase from the venue (cash or card).
This event is in conjunction with the Society of Authors in Scotland (SoAiS).
Programme
- 7pm – Event starts | Refreshments available to purchase (cash or card)
- 9pm – Event closes
The Line up
Tom Bailey – Host
Tom Bailey is a writer and editor based in Edinburgh. His debut pamphlet, Please Do Not Touch or Feed the Horses, was published by Poetry London Editions and won an Eric Gregory Award in 2025. He edits the online poetry magazine And Other Poems and works in social care.
Colin Bramwell
Colin Bramwell was born in Ayrshire, grew up in Fortrose on the Black Isle and lives in Edinburgh. Fower Pessoas, his rendition of Fernando Pessoa into Scots, was published by Carcanet in 2025 and selected as a TLS Book of the Year for 2025, as well as being shortlisted for both Scots Book of the Year and the Highland Book Prize, and winning the 2026 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize. His debut collection, Fetch, was published by And Other Stories in September 2026.
Iona Lee
Iona Lee is a writer whose work encompasses poetry, visual art, music and live performance. Her debut collection, Anamnesis, won the Somerset Maugham Award. In 2024 she published What I Love About A Cloud Is Its Unpredictability, a collection of visual and concrete poetry.
Zainab Imran
Zainab Imran is a poet, facilitator and museum worker based in Edinburgh. In 2022, Zainab won the Royal Society of Literature Sky Arts Award for Poetry and was shortlisted for the Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize in 2024. She recently won the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award 2026.
About Society of Authors in Scotland (SoAiS)
Members with a Scottish postcode are added to the group when they join the SoA. If you have not been added but would like to join this group, please contact us.
We offer a varied calendar of activities organised by a committee of volunteers and staff coordinator Elsa Robert. Group activities are reported in the SoA’s quarterly magazine, The Author.
Accessibility
- The venue has one small step into the shop, a summon-a-bookseller button and a folding ramp. More information can be found on their website here: https://typewronger.com/about/accessibility/
- If you have any access requirements, please email events@societyofauthors.org
Booking
Tickets for this event are free, and can be booked via Typewronger Books’ Eventbrite page here.
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