Join us for an evening of contemporary Scottish and Irish poetry and prose with authors Ali Whitelock, Anne Casey, Magi Gibson and Ian Macpherson.

Ali Whitelock is a Scottish poet and writer whose debut poetry collection, and my heart crumples like a coke can is published by Wakefield Press, Adelaide and her memoir, Poking seaweed with a stick and running away from the smell was launched to critical acclaim in Australia and the UK in 2010.

Anne Casey has won and been shortlisted for poetry awards in Ireland, Northern Ireland, the USA, the UK, Canada and Australia. Her book where the lost things go was published in 2017and her second collection is forthcoming in 2019.

Scottish poet Magi Gibson has four collections published, including the hugely popular Wild Women of a Certain Age. The National in Scotland described her latest, Washing Hugh MacDiarmid’s Socks as “A joy to read”.

As well as performing one-man shows at the Edinburgh festival, Dubliner Ian Macpherson has written several books including Deep Probings, The Autobiography of Ireland's Greatest Living Genius, and The Book of Blaise, or How to Survive the Menopause with your Manhood Intact. He has just completed a comic novel, Sloot.

6.00pm arrivals for a 6.30pm start.