Purple Poetry
Purple Poetry creates on-the-spot typewritten poems based on a brief conversation. This could be about absolutely anything: where is your heart right now? How has life been feeling lately? Who has been making you smile? Award-winning poet Heather Rose combines counselling-informed listening with her lyrical poetry style to create a typewritten poem to treasure for only £10! See a unique vignette of your life right now through the eyes of a poet.
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Sign up for a ten-minute 1:1 with some of the fantastic publishers attending our symposium day, including publishers and editors from Carcanet, Birlinn, Pamenar Press, Art Riot Press, Tapsalteerie and Stewed Rhubarb. Don’t miss this chance to get some individualised advice and guidance on the submission and publication process.
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