You are invited to the Scottish Poetry Library on Thursday April 17th at 7pm for the launch of two Handsel Press poetry booklets - Jenny Campbell's Casting Off: Poems from the Slipstream and Jock Stein's Old and Bold: Poems of Love and Age. The event will finish by 8pm and include clarsach performance by the Edinburgh harpist Douglas Kerr. Ticket price allows participants to get two free booklets! As Jenny Campbell’s first collection slips like a boat into the river of contemporary poetry, it bears an offering of fresh poems on sea and seasons, birds and bards, wind and windows, with two poems exploring her Ulster roots, ‘between the orange and the green’. Painting and poetry have always been part of Jenny’s creative life. Her cover painting is called ‘Where Life had Been’, and suggests the skeletal structure of a fish seen from underneath, with light on the water. Sometimes she even scribbles verses into the paint! You think the words are all yours, your reasoning a savage knife, but my words are the words that cradle life. (from ‘The River Speaks’) Jock Stein is a preacher, piper and poet from Haddington. He and his wife Margaret, also a minister, have been married for well over 50 years. Some of his other books can be found on www.handselpress.org.uk “when evening comes, there’s something more” There’s much here that echoes on inside long after the reading of the lines is done, and the best is kept till last. Kenneth Steven Writer Old, bold, skilful and sensual – the love poems from the evening of life are a sheer delight; pulsing with affection, attraction, intimacy, faith, fun and devotion. If the love poetry beguiles the most, there is more here - on ageing, nature, friendship, suffering and hope. Shot through it all, in the final words of the collection, ‘the call of heaven’. Treat yourself to this new set of poems from Jock Stein. Doug Gay Glasgow University

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