] StAnza is well known for its lively, energetic atmosphere, for the buzz that it creates around the poetry. This is due as much to its discussion and conversation strands…
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]StAnza’s Artist-in-Residence this year is the photographer Dan Philips. Here he explains how how his project came about and why the photographer’s interaction with the sitter is so important. It…
]Festival going has many attendant pleasures; meeting new people and enjoying the bustling atmosphere is as much fun as experiencing the events. StAnza has become famous for the buzz it…
]Guest blogger Claire Askew explains how the women in her family have chronicled their own histories and inspired her poetry – especially her storytelling grandmother. One of the themes of…
] The second of our guest bloggers, poet Kevin Williamson, talks about how he got up close and personal with Robert Burns – through committing his verses to memory. 2011…
]StAnza’s theme, Timepiece, offers poets the chance to think about relationships to the past. As Festival Director Eleanor Livingstone puts it, ‘the history of nations and communities, as well as…
] The first of our guest bloggers, poet Matt Merritt, takes StAnza's theme, The Poets' Ark, as the starting point of his discussion of poetry, nature and ecology. A couple…
] With just a fortnight to go before the festival begins on 16th March, the excitement is building up and the final preparations are underway: thanks to the team of…
] Eleanor Livingstone hosted the StAnza Preview at Dundee Rep this week, with poets Stewart Conn and Dawn Wood reading to an appreciative audience. The Courier covered the story. Dundee…
New festival director Eleanor Livingstone hosted a preview of StAnza's festival programme at the NLS in Edinburgh last night, offering a taster of the poetic and musical feast to come….
One of the highlights among many exciting events at StAnza this year will be a concert featuring the first performances of work by three talented young composers: winners of the…
