Poetry with Jim Carruth and Taylor Strickland

Jim Curruth was born in Johnstone and grew up on his parents dairy farm.

He is the current Makar of Glasgow whose publications include The Auchensale Trilogy and Killochries, which was shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Poetry Prize for a First Collection, the Saltire Scottish Poetry Book of the Year award, and the Fenton Aldeburgh Prize.His latest book, Knockan, is set in remote Assynt, where the past is recreated from rock and bone; a crofter and her estranged daughter search for some common ground in their annual week together.

Rooted in the landscape and geology of North-West Scotland, Knockan is an original and powerful exploration of how our lived experience weighs on us, intimately told through the fracturing and repair of a mother and daughter relationship.Taylor Strickland is a poet and translator from the USA.

His book Dastram/Delirium was 2023 Scottish Poetry Book of the Year and a Poetry Book Society Translation Choice.

His work has featured in Poetry London, the Times Literary Supplement, New Statesman and more.

He lives in Glasgow with his wife Lauren and daughter Eimhir.Dwell Time is Taylors full-length debut collection and is from the idea that dwelling requires both place and the experience of being-in-the-world.

In taking us from the USA to Scotland to Portugal, Strickland interrogates this central notion, along with ideas of non-place and environment, to explore our contemporary experience of love, language, technology and spirituality.

Ultimately these are poems that advocate for a world against isolation, one in which we go beyond our own witness to embrace anothers and shrink the distance between us.Taylor Strickland and Jim Carruth will be in conversation with publisher Duncan Lockerbie of Tapsalteerie and will be reading from and signing their latest collections.

For information, see www.tapsalteerie.co.uk [https://www.tapsalteerie.co.uk].