EDINBURGH: Word Power, with Matt Merritt, Rob A Mackenzie, Andrew Philip and James W Wood

Saturday, 20th June, 2009 12 noon - 1pm, FREE
Word Power Books
43-45 West Nicolson Street
Edinburgh
EH8 9DB
Scotland
All Welcome!

Matt Merritt is a poet and journalist. His first collection, Troy Town, was published in March 2008 by Arrowhead Press and his chapbook, Making the Most of the Light, in 2005 by Happenstance Press.

Rob A Mackenzie is based in Edinburgh. His poetry pamphlet, The Clown of Natural Sorrow, was published by HappenStance Press in 2005. His first full collection, The Opposite of Cabbage, was published by Salt in March 2009.

Andrew Philip was born in 1975. He has published two poetry pamphlets with HappenStance Press - Tonguefire (2005) and Andrew Philip: A Sampler (2008) - and was chosen as a Scottish Poetry Library "New Voice" in 2006. The Ambulance Box, his first book of poems, was published in March 2009 by Salt.

James W. Wood’s poems, articles and reviews have appeared in a wide range of literary magazines in Britain, America and Canada. His pamphlet, The Theory of Everything, was published by Happenstance Press in 2006, and Inextinguishable by Knucker Press in 2008.