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