Reading on Play (3): 'A Scottish Fantasy' (E14), Sunday 15th November 2020, 3-4pm
Our host for this event is Sharon Black
Through a plethora of visions, superstitions and personas, Sunday evening’s event muses what it is to be human in past, present and future. Reimagine Norse sagas with Miriam Nash’s forthcoming The Nine Mothers of Heimdallr, which imagines the vast and mythic Northern landscape in a giant, matriarchal re-telling of the creation myth. Delve into Andy Jackson’s new collection The Saints are Coming, inspired by the lives of genuine patron saints of strange things – spies, comedians, haemorrhoid sufferers, disappointing children, the verbally abused. Myth and superstition take a disquieting turn in a reading from Rob A. Mackenzie’s The Book of Revelation, which serves as a lonely planet guide to this outrageous place in time with apocalyptic nightmare vision that encompasses the rags of Empire and political turpitude in a grimly comic phantasmagoria of twenty-first century turmoil (that finds consolations in artistic resistance, and guinea pigs). Gallows humour is also rife throughout Louise Peterkin’s The Night Jar, lifting the lid on a fizzing range of personas, dramas and states of mind – presenting them for our delight - at once lively, unexpected and exhilarating, the collection brings to engagingly to mind Blake’s assertion: ‘energy is eternal delight’(Gerry Cambridge). Join us for our festival finale!
