Venue: Library, Quaker Meeting House, 7 Victoria Terrace, Edinburgh.
Time: 6.30pm for 7pm-8pm.
Event Description: Paul Sutherland performs his poetry with a rich, deep, rhythmic voice well suited for the strong spiritual currents through his writing. He'll read not only from his published collections but more recent poems that reveal his quest for a spiritual reality. His broad approach creates a diverse and open-hearted poetry that struggles with, praises and presents the value of different traditions and experiences of the other worldly in this world. Joolz Denby, speaking of his book Seven Earth Odes, says it is 'a sustained triumph...an odyssey of the heart.' Ian Duhig praises Sutherland's poetry in which '...epic and intimate scales overlap...'
Cost: £5/£3 (Concessions) on the door, on the night.
Contact: Neill Walker, njwalk5300@hotmail.co.uk, 0131 331 4469.