Colin Bramwell for Fetch

We are delighted to be welcoming an incredible local talent, COLIN BRAMWELL, for the launch of his debut poetry collection, _Fetch_.

Reading alongside him will be poets MICHAEL GRIEVE and JACOB POLLEY.Following his recent success after winning both the 2026 Oxford Weidenfeld Prize and the 2026 Highland Book Prize for his translation of Fernando Pessoa into Scots, _Fower Pessoas,_ Bramwell returns with a debut collection that is sure to delight with its distinctive voice.We look forward to seeing you there!On _Fetch_: In Celtic folklore a fetch is a shadowy doppelganger that appears from the Otherworld, portending the beholder’s fate.

Your fetch ‘fetches’ you to the afterlife, willingly or otherwise.

Bramwell’s poetry uses the fetch as a model to explore a number of overlapping binaries – between the reader and the poem, most of all.

Fetch also meditates on the differences between music and speech, the sacred and the profane, the written and the real, humanity and nature, Scots and English.

Incorporating multitudes of modes, forms, registers and subjects, Bramwell converses with the Anglo-Celtic lyric tradition in our own time and in his own distinctively amiable fashion.

In other words, this poet takes poetry seriously – but not too seriously._Fetch_ is a tour-de-force debut from one of Britain’s most exciting new poets, in which reverence and irreverence, religion and faithlessness, the living and the dead, nearly rhyme.COLIN BRAMWELL was born in Ayrshire, grew up in Fortrose on the Black Isle and lives in Edinburgh.

His poetry and criticism has appeared in _The Observer_, _New Statesman_, _Poetry Review_, _Irish Pages_, _The London Magazine_, _PN Review_, _Magma_, _The Rialto_, _New Writing Scotland_, _Interpret_, _Poetry Scotland_, _Poetry London_, _Poetry Ireland Review_ and _The Scotsman_, as well as in his pamphlet _The Highland Citizenship Test_ (Stewed Rhubarb 2021).

He was the runner-up for the 2020 Edwin Morgan Prize.

His co-translations of Taiwanese poets won the John Dryden Translation Competition and the Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize. _Fower Pessoas_, his rendition of Fernando Pessoa into Scots, was published by Carcanet in 2025 and selected as a _TLS Book of the Year_ for 2025, as well as being shortlisted for both Scots Book of the Year and the Highland Book Prize, and winning the 2026 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize.MICHAEL GRIEVE lives in Fife, Scotland.

He works as a teacher, and before that was a bookseller.

His work has appeared in many poetry journals, including _The Little Review_, _The Dark Horse_ and the _Irish Pages_, while his pamphlet _Luck_ is published by HappenStance.

He was shortlisted for the 2020 Edwin Morgan Prize.

His debut collection, _Asterism_, is out with And Other Stories_ _in January 2027.JACOB POLLEY was born in Carlisle, Cumbria.

His most recent book of poems is _Material Properties_ (2023).

His fourth book of poems, _Jackself_ (2016), won the T.S.

Eliot Prize.

His previous books are _The Brink_ (2003), _Little Gods_ (2006) and _The Havocs_ (2012), and a novel, _Talk of the Town_ (2009), all published by Picador, UK. _Talk of the Town_ won the Somerset Maugham Award in 2010.

Jacob received an Eric Gregory Award in 2002, and both _The Brink _and _The Havocs_ were shortlisted for the T.S.

Eliot Prize.

He teaches at Newcastle University and lives with his family on the north-east coast.