Red Squirrel Press Autumn Showcase 2023

Biggar-based publisher Red Squirrel Press invites you to an evening of gorgeous and thought-provoking poetry this autumn.

Echoing the spring showcase earlier this year. This event will feature a lineup of talented writers presenting their latest publications, including Eleanor Livingstone, Mary Thompson, Jean Taylor, and Charlie Gracie.

Our special guest is Lindsay MacGregor, who will be reading from her collection, Desperate Fishwives.

‘ These are poems for a world out of kilter, poems of wild places and the wildlife within us. They are by turns surreal, audacious, unsettling, outrageously funny, ominous, rewarding, playful; the dangerous poems we need for dangerous times.’

—John Glenday

Her poems have the music and rhythmic energy of waves, and display an extraordinary breadth of knowledge...ironic, humorous, formally daring, her poems awaken, scald and entrance...’

—Anna Crowe