On the 21st of April, my loyalties and attention are going to be a bit...divided, let's just say. At 7 p.m., at the CCA on Sauchiehall Street, David Kinloch's poetry collection Finger of a Frenchman will officially be launched by Carcanet Press. Copies can be ordered via the usual outlets, or direct from Carcanet: http://www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?product=9781847770745. The blurb says that the book "explores looking, and writing about looking." I'm looking (ha ha!) forward to hearing and reading Finger of A Frenchman. I'm also glad I don't have to wait until June 3rd at the Write Now Conference, because I'm actually pretty impatient and not keen on delayed gratification (sometimes an awkward thing for a poet to be).
At 7:30, at the Mono bar about a mile and a half away from the CCA, a group of truly talented and enterprising 4th year students at Strathcyde are launching a new literary magazine, Valve, with a program of acoustic music and readings. For further information, or to try to snaffle and invitation, check out valvejournal.co.uk. I haven't read any of it, but have heard some of the contributors read before, and it will be well worth the trip to the launch or Waterstone's to buy Valve.
One of the things I love most about living in Glasgow is that people DO things. Having an embarrassment of riches to choose from, bookily speaking, is a great diary conflict to have. Come sprint, lurch, stagger, run, saunter with me on the 21st of April; we've got a lot of listening to do.
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