2022 Festival
Stories Like Starting Points 7–13 March St Andrews & Online
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Welcome to StAnza 2022! Once upon a StAnza… Stories and narrative have long had an important role to play in our making sense of what it means to be human, to live in our communities and environment, and in negotiating how this might alternatively look. For this year’s festival, we have taken a line from participant Holly Pester’s collection Comic Timing, ‘Stories like starting points’, as StAnza’s own starting point in proceeding to investigate the role of narrative in contemporary poetry. This year StAnza is thrilled to be participating in Scotland’s ‘Year of Stories’: our festival will interpret that in the widest sense, and not only with narrative poets and artists. StAnza 2022 will explore the opportunities and the pitfalls of stories, ranging over narrative poetry, prose poetry, re-writing old stories and imagining new ones, reportage, process / chance narratives, myth /epic; there will be poets who contest the power of narrative or of stories conventionally told, and those who experiment with it. Over the coming years, Stanza aims to become an ‘intervention’ in poetry, which annually explores questions that are fundamental to the writing and reading of poetry and will engage poets and audiences alike. In this, our 25th year and my first as Festival Director, our starting point is narrative, and the story of the 2022 festival begins right here!
Lucy Burnett, Festival Director
Booking notes
In addition to our usual live programme (or last year’s entirely virtual offering), Stanza 2022 is delivered to you in hybrid form, including both live / in-person and digital events (either on our YouTube channel or via Zoom). Each event listing includes information about what format that event will be available in – please do make sure to book the right thing! We have also introduced a three tier ticketing structure this year: Standard (the middle price), Reduced and Pay-it-forward. The Reduced ticket band is aimed at those with very limited financial resources – please only purchase these tickets if you would genuinely struggle to attend otherwise. In order to fund these concessionary tickets, we invite those of you who are more financially comfortable to select Pay-it-forward tickets. Everyone else should purchase Standard Tickets. Please also note that some participants are being livestreamed into the festival on Zoom - these poets are identified in italics in the programme.
To book tickets, please visit our website at www.stanzapoetry.org/festival/whats-on/ You can also purchase tickets direct from The Byre Theatre, online at www.byretheatre.com/upcoming/stanza/ on the phone tel. 01334 475000 StAnza reserves the right to change or amend all or any event, and to refuse admission or not to admit later arrivals. Refunds cannot be given except in the case of cancellation of the event or of any of the participants. StAnza will not tolerate disruptive behaviour or abusive language. Stanza: Scotland’s Poetry Festival is a private company limited by guarantee and registered under the Companies Acts, registered no. SC253342. It is recognized by the Inland Revenue as a Scottish charity no SC. 031789.
Remembering
Brian Johnstone StAnza’s story began in a St Andrews pub, during a conversation after a poetry reading. Brian often recalled how he sketched what would become the StAnza logo on a beer mat. Months later the first festival took place over an autumn weekend in 1998, planned and delivered by Brian, Gavin Bowd and Anna Crowe and supported by a small grant from the Scottish Arts Council. From these modest beginnings StAnza grew in leaps and bounds. Brian was keen that StAnza should always be a celebration of poetry and his own interests ensured that engagement with music and visual art featured on the programme from the start. The festival quickly became international in ambition and reach, which was reflected in its designation from 2007 as ‘Scotland’s International Poetry Festival’, by which time StAnza had become a major fixture on the cultural calendar. There were many highlights over the years, from poetry boats sailing into the harbour in 2004, the 100 Poet Reading for the 10th festival, when Alastair Reid famously set fire to his poem ‘Scotland’, to StAnza’s Homecoming festival in 2009 marking the Robert Burns 250th anniversary. In 2010 Brian stepped down from his role as festival director to concentrate on his own writing. Over the following decade, during which he achieved international acclaim as a poet, performer and editor, he continued to support and encourage StAnza. In recognition of his many contributions Brian was appointed an Honorary President in 2015, and until his death last year he continued to be a familiar face at the festival, whether on stage introducing events, or mixing with poets and audience members in the bar at the Byre Theatre. StAnza pre-dated the present day Byre by several years but Brian was quick to visualise it as the ideal festival hub it soon became. As StAnza returns to the Byre this year for its 25th festival, while Brian won’t be there in person, he will be remembered with fondness and gratitude by all those who worked with him at the festival from 1998 until 2020. Eleanor Livingstone, Festival Director 2011-21
Category Key
Tuesday 8th Starting Points
Tue 8 March | 9:30 – 9:35 A Writing Idea from Assistant Festival Director Annie Rutherford Digital (online)
Free unticketed
Creating Landscapes from Words: Workshop Tue 8 March | 10:00 – 12:00 A workshop with Garry Mackenzie Digital (Zoom)
Monday 7th
Supported by Year of Stories 2022
Round the World: Africa
Welcome to StAnza 2022
Mon 7 March | 9:30 – 9:35 From Festival Director Lucy Burnett, plus a morning writing idea. Digital (online)
Free unticketed
£3
£12 / £8 / £4
£3
Tue 8 March | 17:30 – 18:00 With readings from Ulrike Draesner and Eduardo Moga Digital (online)
Tue 8 March | 19:00 – 20:00 With postgraduate creative writing students at the University of St Andrews Digital (Zoom) Supported by the School of English at the University of St Andrews
Free
Open Mic Read-around
Mon 7 March | 20:00 – 21:00 Online open-mic hosted by Katie Hale Digital (Zoom)
£5
£3
Festival Warm-Up
Well-versed: Pre-festival special
Mon 7 March | 19:00 – 19:30 Festival Director Lucy Burnett in conversation with Holly Pester Digital (Zoom)
Tue 8 March | 14:00 – 15:30 A masterclass with Jack Underwood Digital (Zoom)
Supported by the Goethe-Institut Glasgow
Round the World: Asia
Mon 7 March | 17:30 – 18:00 With readings from Theophilus Kwek and Takako Arai Digital (online)
£3
Round the World: Europe
Radical Making - Writing the Felt Self Mon 7 March | 14:00 – 16:00 A workshop with Alice Hiller Digital (Zoom)
Tue 8 March | 13:00 – 13:30 With readings from Togara Muzanenhamo and Nassima Raoui Digital (online)
StAnza Masterclass
Round the World: Australasia
Mon 7 March | 13:00 – 13:30 With readings from Tusiata Avia and Angela Gardner Digital (online)
£12 / £8 / £4
Free
£3
Open Mic Read-around
Tue 8 March | 20:00 – 21:00 Online open-mic hosted by Natalie Clark Digital (Zoom)
Free
Wednesday 9th
Thursday 10th
Starting Points with Marjorie Lotfi
Poetry Promenade
Wed 9 March | 9:30 – 9:35 Writing Idea from StAnza’s Vice Chair Digital (online)
Free unticketed
Supported by Year of Stories 2022
Taking Books for a Walk
Wed 9 March | 10:00 – 11.30 A poetry reviewing workshop with Kirsty Gunn and Gail Low Digital (Zoom) Wed 9 March | 13:00 – 13:30 With readings from Nicole Sealey and Shane McCrae Digital (online)
£12 / £8 / £4
Thu 10 March | 9:30 – 9:35 A morning writing prompt Digital (online)
Free unticketed
Read-around Breakfast £3
Round the World: South America
Wed 9 March | 17:30 – 18:00 With readings from Yana Lucila Lema Otavalo and Ezequiel Zaidenwerg Digital (online)
£3
Wed 9 March | 19:00 – 21:00 With readings from Kathleen Jamie, Peter Mackay, Roseanne Watt and Hannah Lavery and music from Don Paterson and Graeme Stephen. Live - Byre Auditorium £12 / £10 / £8 Digital - (online) £5 Supported by Year of Stories 2022
Open Mic
Wed 9 March | 21:00 – 23:00 Share a poem of your own or come along and listen Byre Studio
Free unticketed
Nicole Sealey
Thu 10 March | 10:00 – 11:00 Chance to share your favourite ‘narrative’ poem Byre Studio
Peter Mackay
Verse Novels
Thu 10 March | 10:00 – 11:00 With readings from Billy Letford and Sarah Corbett Holy Trinity Church Nave Digital (online)
Supported by Year of Stories 2022
£7 / £5 / £3 £3
Reworking / Reimagining / Rewriting History Thu 10 March | 10:00 – 12:00 A workshop with Judith Willson Bell Pettigrew Museum
£15 / £10 / £6
Past & Present: Veronica Forrest-Thomson, Wallace Stevens & Gertrude Stein
Thu 10 March | 11:30 – 12:30 Claire Crowther and Matthew Welton respond to modernist poets Holy Trinity Church, the Hunter & Memorial Aisle
Translation in Focus: Beyond Any Curtain
Kathleen Jamie
£7 / £5 / £3
Supported by Year of Stories 2022
Festival Launch Extravaganza
Yana Lucila Lema Otavalo
Free
Starting Points with Judith Willson
Round the World: North America
Don Paterson
Thu 10 March | 9:15 – 10:00 A poetry walking tour through St Andrews, with Anna Crowe Meet at the festival desk in the Byre Theatre
£7 / £5 / £3
Thu 10 March | 11:30 – 12:30 With readings from Hannah Lavery, Roseanne Watt, Vicki Husband, Andrew Blair, Lyuba Yakimchuk, Myroslav Laiuk, Olena Huseinova and Les Beley Byre Auditorium £6 / £4 / £3 Digital (online) £3 Supported by the European Union under the House of Europe programme.
Poetry Shorts
Meet the Artist: Yasmine Seale
Thu 10 March | 12:30 – 14:00 The Thousand and One Nights Erased Byre Theatre Foyers
Free unticketed
Free unticketed
Alternative Environmental Narratives
The Poetry Café – Cabaret Style
Thu 10 March | 13:00 – 13:50 With performances from Georgi Gill and Keith Hutson Byre Studio Digital (online)
£9 / £7 / £5 £3
Supported by Year of Stories 2022
Thu 10 March | 16:00 – 17:00 With readings from J.O. Morgan and Claire Crowther Byre Studio Supported by Year of Stories 2022
£8 / £6 / £4
Past & Present: T.S. Eliot’s ‘The Waste Land’ and Ezra Pound
Round the World Returns Home
Thu 10 March | 13:00 – 13:30 With readings from Hugh McMillan and Shara McCallum Byre, Conference Room Digital - (Zoom)
£3 £3
Women Reworking History
Thu 10 March | 16:00 – 17:00 Robert Crawford and Vahni Capildeo respond to modernist poets Holy Trinity Church, the Hunter & Memorial Aisle Digital (online) Supported by Year of Stories 2022
£8 / £6 / £4 £3
Publishing Scotland: Andres Ordorica & Rachel Plummer in conversation Thu 10 March | 14:00 – 15:00 On the author-editor relationship Byre Auditorium
£6 / £4 / £3
In partnership with Publishing Scotland
Vahni Capildeo
Hannah Lowe
£7 / £5 / £3 £3
Round Table by the Fire
Thu 10 March | 17:30 – 18:30 A round table with Hannah Lowe St Leonard’s Yurt
Thu 10 March | 14:00 – 15:30 With readings from and discussion between Victoria Kennefick, J.R. Carpenter and Judith Willson Holy Trinity Church Nave Digital - (online)
Lyuba Kaymchuck
Thu 10 March | 14:30 – 17:30 Poetry films shared on a loop Byre, Conference Room
£9 / £7 / £5
EPIC
Thu 10 March | 17:30 – 18:30 A performance by Camilla Nelson Byre Auditorium Digital (online)
£7 / £5 / £3 £3
Dinner Dates
Thu 10 March | 18:45 – 19:45 Billy Letford, Georgi Gill and Hannah Lavery in conversation The Byre - Studio Theatre
£9 / £7 / £5
Poetry Centre Stage: The long and short of it
Thu 10 March | 20:15 – 21:45 With readings from Robin Robertson, Vahni Capildeo and Emily Berry Holy Trinity Church Nave Digital (online) Supported by Year of Stories 2022
Brian Johnstone’s Jazz Night Yana Lucila Lema Otavalo
Billy Letford
£15 / £12 / £9 £5
Thu 10 March | 22:00 – 23:30 A night of jazz from St Andrews Jazz Soc with poems by the late Brian Johnstone Byre Studio Free unticketed
Friday 11th
Round the World Returns Home
Fri 11 March | 13:00 – 13:30 With readings from Alycia Pirmohamed and André Naffis Sahely The Byre - Conference Room Digital (Zoom)
Starting Points with Camilla Nelson Fri 11 March | 9:30 – 9:35 A morning writing prompt Digital (online)
Free unticketed
Poetry Café for Breakfast: Poetry in exile
Fri 11 March | 10:00 – 11:00 Marjorie Lotfi, Nouri Al-Jarrah, Yousif M. Qasmiyeh and Hannah Lowe in conversation Byre Studio
£7 / £5 / £3
Translating Gilgamesh
Fri 11 March | 10:00 – 11:00 With readings from Philip Terry, Jenny Lewis and Adnan Al Sayegh Holy Trinity Church Nave Digital online)
£7 / £5 / £3 £3
Moving Words (Developing Narrative Strategies Through Movement) Fri 11 March | 10:00 – 12:00 A workshop with Camilla Nelson Cosmos Centre
£15 / £10 / £5
Language as your Country
Fri 11 March | 11:30 – 12:30 With readings from Yousif M. Qasmiyeh and Nidhi Zak / Aria Eipe Byre Auditorium
£7 / £5 / £3
Past and Present: Whose tradition is whose?
Fri 11 March | 11:30 – 12:30 The modernist amidst other traditions with Adnan Al-Sayegh and Yang Lian Holy Trinity Church, the Hunter & Memorial Aisle Digital (online)
£7 / £5 / £3 £3
Supported by Year of Stories 2022
Tracing Roots
Fri 11 March | 14:00 – 15:30 With readings from and discussion between Pascale Petit, Leo Boix and Eléna Rivera Holy Trinity Church Nave Digital (Zoom)
Supported by Year of Stories 2022
Fri 11 March | 14:00 – 15:00 A collaboration with Nadine Aisha Jassat and the Wardlaw Museum Wardlaw Museum In partnership with the Wardlaw Museum
Fri 11 March | 14:30 – 17:30 Poetry films shared on a loop The Byre - Conference Room
Free unticketed
The Contemporary Epic
Fri 11 March | 15:45 – 17:15 With readings from and discussion between Stephanie Sy-Quia, Khaled Nurul Hakim and Gëzim Hajdjari (tr. Ian Seed) McPherson Recital Room, Laidlaw Music Centre Digital (online)
Safiya Sinclair
Nouri Al-Jarrah
Colm Tóibín
£8 / £6 / £4 £3
Gëzim Hajdjari
Free unticketed
£9 / £7 / £5 £3
Free
Poetry Shorts
Poetry Café: Omar Bin Musa
Fri 11 March | 13:00 – 13:50 A performance from Omar Bin Musa Byre Studio Digital (online)
£8 / £6 / £4 £3
Moving Art, Connecting Voices
Meet the Artist: Alastair Noble Fri 11 March | 12:30 – 14:00 Message in a Bo(a)ttle St Andrews Heritage Museum
£3 £3
Mona Arshi
Poems in Transit
Fri 11 March | 16:00 – 17:00 Open Book, Stories in Transit & Arabic Poetry in Exile: showcase of three projects Byre Studio £7 / £5 / £3 In partnership with Open Book, Stories in Transit and Arabic Poetry in Exile
Round Table with George Szirtes
Fri 11 March | 17:30 – 18:30 A round table reading with George Szirtes St Leonard’s Yurt
£9 / £7 / £5
In partnership with Templar Poetry
£8 / £6 / £4 £5
Sat 12 March | 10:00 – 11:00 George Szirtes, Brian Holton, and Pascale Petit in discussion about translating Yang Lian Byre Studio £7 / £5 / £3 Sat 12 March | 10:00 – 11:00 With readings from Stephen Sexton and Alan Gillis Parliament Hall Digital (online)
£7 / £5 / £3 £3
Postcard Poems Free unticketed
Sat 12 March | 10:00 – 12:00 A workshop with Kayo Chingonyi Wardlaw Museum
£15 / £10 / £5
Past & Present: T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, Mina Loy and Hope Mirrlees £9 / £7 / £5 £5
Poetry Centre Stage
Fri 11 March | 20:15 – 22:00 With readings from Kayo Chingonyi, Safiya Sinclair, and Nouri Al-Jarrah Byre Auditorium
Free unticketed
Supported by Year of Stories 2022
Dinner Dates: in conversation with Colm Tóibín Fri 11 March | 18:45 – 19:45 A conversation with Colm Tóibín McPherson Recital Room, Laidlaw Music Centre Digital (online)
Sat 12 March | 9:30 – 9:35 A morning writing prompt Digital (online)
Between Digital, Imagined and Real Worlds
Book Launch with Templar Poetry
Fri 11 March | 18:45 – 19:45 With readings from Mhairi Owens, Jane Weir, and Damian Smyth JG Innes
Starting Points with Kayo Chingonyi
Breakfast at the Poetry Café: Translating Yang Lian
The StAnza lecture with Mona Arshi Fri 11 March | 17:30 – 18:30 A lecture from Mona Arshi Byre Auditorium Digital (online)
Saturday 12th
Sat 12 March | 11:30 – 12:45 Paul Muldoon and Sandeep Parmar respond to modernist poets, plus a reading by Muldoon Byre Auditorium £7 / £5 / £3 Digital (online) £3
Yang Lian
Jenny Foulds
£15 / £12 / £9
Deep Wheel Orcadia
Fri 11 March | 20:30 – 21:30 Performance by Harry Josephine Giles with Atzi Muramatsu McPherson Recital Room, Laidlaw Music Centre Digital (online) Supported by Year of Stories 2022
£10 / £8 / £6 £5
Risk A Verse
Fri 11 March | 22:00 – 23:30 Open mic event Byre Studio
Free unticketed
Ian Duhig
Gail McConnell
Kayo Chingonyi
Round the World Returns home
Storytellers in translation
Sat 12 March | 11:30 – 12:30 With translations, readings, and discussion from Diana Anphimiadi and Diana Bellesi, Leo Boix, Jean Sprackland and Natalia Bukia-Peters Parliament Hall
£6 / £4 / £3
In partnership with the Poetry Translation Centre
Reportage
Sat 12 March | 11:15 – 12:45 With readings from Daniel Sluman, Bridget Khursheed and Gail McConnell McPherson Recital Room, Laidlaw Music Centre Supported by Year of Stories 2022
£8 / £6 / £4
Supported by the Czech Literary Centre and in partnership with Modern Poetry in Translation
Free unticketed
Free
Poetry Café: Jenny Foulds
Sat 12 March | 14:00 – 15:30 With readings from and discussion between Alice Hiller, Maria Stadnicka, and Annemarie Ní Churreáin Byre Auditorium Digital (online)
£8 / £6 / £4 £3
Sat 12 March | 14:30 – 15:30 Poetry and Covid-19: A Showcase Parliament Hall In partnership with Shearsman Press
£7 / £5 / £3
Sat 12 March | 14:30 – 15:30 Vocal concert with St Andrews music scholars McPherson Recital Room, Laidlaw Music Centre In partnership with the Laidlaw Music Centre
£7 / £5 / £3
The Landscape’s Narrative
Sat 12 March | 13:00 – 13:50 With a performance by Jenny Foulds Byre Studio
Testament
Erasures: What we cannot say and how we say it
Afternoon recital
Meet the Artist: Phil Davenport Sat 12 March | 12:30 – 14:00 The Book of Ours Byre Theatre Foyers
£3 £3
Poetry in the Lockdown Garden: A Shearsman Anthology
Meet the Curators: Modern Poetry in Translation Sat 12 March | 12:00 – 12:45 The Eastern European Story JG Innes gallery
Sat 12 March | 13:00 – 13:30 With readings from JL Williams and Wayne Holloway Smith Byre, Conference Room Digital (online)
£9 / £7 / £5
Sat 12 March | 15:45 – 16:45 With readings from Harriet Tarlo and Garry MacKenzie Byre Studio Supported by Year of Stories 2022
Holly Pester
£7 / £5 / £3
Round Table with Ian Duhig
Sat 12 March | 16:00 – 17:00 A round table reading with Ian Duhig St Leonard’s Yurt
£9 / £7 / £5
Beachcombers on the North Sea
Sat 12 March | 16:15 – 17:15 With readings and translations from Radna Fabias, K. Michel, and P.C. Evans Parliament Hall Digital (online) Supported by the Dutch Foundation for Literature
Sandeep Parmar
Garry Mackenzie
Alice Hiller
£7 / £5 / £3 £3
Sunday 13th
Wigtown Showcase
Sat 12 March | 17:30 – 18:30 With a live reading from Billy Letford, and Jane Mckie, Basil du Toit, Mark Gallacher, Robert Duncan, Lynn Valentine, Eoghan Stewart, Gillebride MacMillan, and Carolyn Yates appearing by Zoom McPherson Recital Room, Laidlaw Music Centre
Starting points with Luke Kennard £3
In partnership with Wigtown Book Festival
Sat 12 March | 17:30 – 18:30 With performances from Matthew Welton and Tom Jenks McPherson Recital Room, Laidlaw Music Centre Digital (online)
£7 / £5 / £3 £3
Sat 12 March | 18:45 – 19:45 With Glyn Maxwell, Ian Duhig and Gail McConnell in conversation Byre Studio
£9 / £7 / £5
Collective Reading
Free unticketed
£15 / £12 / £9 £5
Performance Sessions: Testament
Supported by Year of Stories 2022
Sun 13 March | 10:00 – 11:00 Harriet Tarlo and Bill Herbert respond to modernist poets Byre Studio Supported by Year of Stories 2022
Sun 13 March | 10:00 – 12:00 A workshop with Luke Kennard in the Golf Museum
£7 / £5 / £3
£12 / £10 / £8
Sun 13 March | 11:30 – 12:15 With readings from Emily Berry, Fiona Benson, and Will Alexander Cosmos Centre Digital (Zoom) In partnership with the Poetry Book Society
£3 £3
Sun 13 March | 11:30 – 12:30 With readings and translations from Dominique De Groen, Annemarie Estor, and Lies Van Gasse Byre Auditorium £6 / £4 / £3 Digital (online) £3 Supported by Flanders Literature
£6 / £4 / £3
£15 / £10 / £5
Showcase: Poetry Book Society
Translation in focus: Three poets from Flanders
Poetry Slam
Sat 12 March | 22:15 – 23.45 The annual StAnza poetry slam Byre Studio
Supported by Year of Stories 2022
£7 / £5 / £3 £3
Poetry Golf
Poetry Centre Stage: Modernist Takes & Out-Takes on Narrative
Sat 12 March | 20:30 – 21:30 A spoken word and beatboxing performance by Testament Byre Auditorium
Sun 13 March | 10:00 – 11:00 With readings from A.B. Jackson and Karen Solie McPherson Recital Room, Laidlaw Music Centre Digital (online)
Past & Present: H.D. and Hugh MacDiarmid
Dinner Dates: Stories like Starting Points
Sat 12 March | 20:15 – 22:00 With readings from Yang Lian, Holly Pester, and Sandeep Parmar McPherson Recital Room, Laidlaw Music Centre Digital (online)
Free unticketed
Saintly Tales
Process & Chance Narratives
Sat 12 March | 19:45 – 20:15 Collaborative reading event Byre Bar
Sun 13 March | 9:30 – 9:35 A morning writing prompt Digital (online)
Women’s Poetry Prize Showcase
Dramatic Masks
Sun 13 March | 11:30 – 12:30 With readings from Glyn Maxwell and Gregory Leadbetter Parliament Hall Digital (online)
£7 / £5 / £3 £3
Showcase: Magma’s Obsidian Issue
In partnership with the Rebecca Swift Foundation Women’s Poetry Prize
£3 £3
Natural Born Storytellers
Sun 13 March | 12:30 – 12:50 With readings from S. Erin Batiste, Courtney Conrad, Keith Jarrett and Romeo Oriogun Cosmos Centre Digital (Zoom)
£3 £3
In partnership with Magma3
Sun 13 March | 14:00 – 15:30 With readings and discussion from David Constantine, Martina Evans, and Parwana Fayyaz Parliament Hall Digital (online)
£8 / £6 / £4 £3
Beyond the Swelkie
Meet the Artist: Katrine Lyck Sun 13 March | 12:30 – 14:00 StAnza Before The Storm Byre Gallery – Level 1
Free unticketed
Round the World returns home: Scottish tales – Gute & Godlie Tales Sun 13 March | 13:00 – 13:30 With readings from Andy Jackson and Bill Herbert McPherson Recital Room, Laidlaw Music Centre
£6 / £4 / £3
Supported by Year of Stories 2022
Poetry Café: Sarah Grant – ‘Oracles’
Sun 13 March | 14:15 – 15:45 George Mackay Brown showcase event Byre Auditorium
In partnership with Tippermuir Books and St Magnus International Festival
£7 / £5 / £3
Showcase: Modern Poetry in Translation Sun 13 March | 14:30 – 14:50 A showcase of the latest issue Cosmos Centre Digital (Zoom)
In partnership with Modern Poetry in Translation
Sun 13 March | 13 :00 – 13 :50 A performance by Sarah Grant Byre Studio Digital (online)
£3 £3
Publishing Scotland Showcase Event £9 / £7 / £5 £3
Supported by Year of Stories 2022
Kim Edgar
Radna Fabias
Sun 13 March | 13:30 – 13:50 Showcase of prizewinning poets Cosmos Centre Digital (Zoom)
Louise Halfe
Niall O’Gallagher
Sun 13 March | 15:30 – 15:50 Publishing house showcase Cosmos Centre Digital (Zoom)
In partnership with Publishing Scotland
Maria Headley
£3 £3
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£8 / £6 / £4 £3
Gaelic Narratives
Sun 13 March | 16:15 – 17:15 With readings from Niall O’Gallagher and Louis de Paor Parliament Hall Supported by Year of Stories 2022
£7 / £5 / £3
Friday
Moniack Mhor Showcase
Sun 13 March | 16:30 – 16:50 Readings from their international residency programme Cosmos Centre Digital (Zoom)
£3 £3
In partnership with Moniack Mhor
Festival finale with Maria Dahvana Headley & Luke Kennard, with Kim Edgar music
Supported by Year of Stories 2022
Saturday
Sun 13 March | 17:30 – 19:30 With readings from Maria Dahvana Headley and Luke Kennard, and music from Kim Edgar Byre Auditorium £15 / £12 / £9 Digital (online) £5
Sunday
Dominique De Groen
Will Alexander
Luke Kennard
Your StAnza - a page for your own use, to make notes or keep a personal StAnza 2022 diary
£9 / £7 / £5
Thursday
Roundtable in the Yurt with Fiona Benson Sun 13 March | 16:00 – 17:00 A roundtable reading with Fiona Benson St Leonard’s Yurt
21.00
Supported by the Year of Stories 2022
22.00
Afternoon tea with Richard Price & Louise Halfe - Sky Dancer
Sun 13 March | 16:00 – 17:00 With readings from and discussion between Richard Price and Louise Halfe Sky Dancer McPherson Recital Room, Laidlaw Music Centre Digital (Zoom)
Exhibitions
Other key information
Please see the programme listings for details of Meet the Artist events which are happening each lunchtime.
Covid and StAnza: StAnza continues to take the risks of Covid very seriously, and is committed to following the latest Government advice at all times. For up to date information on what measures we are taking, please refer to: https://stanzapoetry.org/ about/stanza-covid/. We ask that you abide by our requests regarding face coverings, hand sanitization and social distancing at all times, for the protection of participants and audience members alike.
10 – 13 March, all day, and free to view. Message in a Bo(a)ttle: Alastair Noble A flotilla of poetic messages
St Andrews Heritage Museum – Gallery, 12 North Street
Trickhouse Press
A 2022 showcase from this visual poetry press
The Byre Theatre – Foyers
The Thousand and One Nights Erased: Yasmine Seale Erasure Poetry
The Byre Theatre – Foyers
In the Time Before Everything: Paula Varjack
Photographs and poetry reflecting on the weeks before lockdown.
The Byre Theatre – Foyers
Festival desk: The festival desk operates a message board, provides answers to all your festival enquiries, gives directions to venues and supplies town maps and guides, bus and train timetables, and contacts for local taxi operators.
Poetry bookstalls: J&G Innes Ltd, 107 South St, are StAnza booksellers for 2022 and stock a wide range of books by festival poets. A bookstall will be available for readings and will operate in the Byre Theatre Level 2 Foyer in the evenings.
Modern Poetry in Translation: The Eastern European Story
Venues: StAnza is using a range of new venues this year as a result of the Town Hall undergoing renovation, and restrictions imposed as a result of socially distanced teaching in University of St Andrews venues. We hope you enjoy the new spaces, and we would be interested to hear your feedback on them.
A Book of Ours: Phil Davenport
Accessibility info: all of the festival venues are fully accessible with the exception of the St Andrews Heritage Museum (upstairs) and the St Leonards school yurt.
StAnza Before the Storm: Katrine Lyck Artwork responding to StAnza 2020
From Miłosz and Holub to Hapeyeva and Děžinský
The Byre Theatre – Gallery Level 4 J & G Innes - Upstairs Gallery, 107 South Street
An ancient manuscript for our time
The Byre Theatre
Venue Locations
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A range of events on the Friday afternoon and evening of the festival will have BSL interpretation. See our website for more details.
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Byre Theatre Wardlaw Museum St Andrews Heritage Museum Holy Trinity Church J&G Inness Parliament Hall Cosmos Centre Bell Pettigrew Museum The Laidlaw Music Centre Senior School Yurt, St Leonards
Email: stanza@stanzapoetry.org Website: www.stanzapoetry.org Twitter / facebook / instagram: @StAnzaPoetry Participating: please see our website for information about how to participate in the open mics, slam, and the masterclass.
Main Funders
Key Funders The Gavron Trust
Partners & Event Funders