J. A. Sutherland
Groundhog Day for VPT
Village Pub Theatre celebrates Bill Murray:
Ever one for the innovative approach, Edinburgh’s Village Pub Theatre is performing a Bill Murray Pub Quiz as part of its next event, this Monday at the Village Pub.
Wordly Wise: As one door closes?
It is a sad day at Æ, where our resident poet, the one and only J. A. Sutherland, has decided that he will have to cease being resident. So here, for the May Day weekend, he says adieu or, we hope, à la prochaine.
Giving Voice – Wordly Wisdom for All
For his round-up of spoken word events during the last weeks of April, resident poet J. A. Sutherland looks at events drowned out by the louder voices – in particular, those that don’t claim to be ‘spoken word’ but in which words are spoken and/or read aloud.
Wordly Wise – April Collisions
Now that the stooshie over spoken word performance has hopefully died down, here are this week’s collisions of culture and – even – science from resident perveyor of poetry J. A. Sutherland.
Wordly Wisdom: Read or recited – it’s all performed
Jem Rolls’ recent comments to Æ concerning performance poetry and the art of reading have caused a right stramash among Edingurgh’s poetry peeps these past few weeks. Resident spoken wordsmith J. A. Sutherland has penned a riposte.
Village Pub Theatre recruits new writers
Edinburgh’s low-fi new writing company, the Village Pub Theatre, is introducing a quintet of new writers to this month’s show.
Wordly wisdom: Ancient and Modern
Do the old pooches of poetry need to practice new tricks – or are the whelps of spoken word digging up a well-gnawed bone? Resident spoken wordsmith J. A. Sutherland ponders such things – and lists Edinburgh’s spoken word events for March.
Wordly Wisdom for a short month
Resident poet J. A. Sutherland reports back on recent goings-down in the world of Edinburgh’s spoken word events – and keeps us up-to-date with its goings-on in a month short in days, but not in spoken words…