Novels in Verse
Knockan, a new novel-in-verse by Glasgow Makar Jim Carruth, intimately explores how heavily our lived experience can weigh upon us: in a remote corner of the west of Scotland, a crofter and her estranged daughter search for common ground over the course of a single week.
Grace Yee’s award-winning debut poetry collection Chinese Fish, meanwhile, incorporates archival, graphic and dramatic forms in a family saga that spans the 1960s through to the 1980s.
In this double bill, Jim and Grace will read from their novels-in-verse and discuss the challenges and joys of this versatile form.
Chaired through the ConVERSE Emerging Chairs Programme with the University of Edinburgh
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