Calum Rodger
The inaugural Grammarsow poet is Calum Rodger. Calum is a Glasgow-based poet and researcher, working in performance, print and digital media. He performs widely throughout Scotland, including shows with BBC:TheSocial and TEDxGlasgow. His most recent work, Rock, Star, North., presents a poetic travelogue through the game-world of Grand Theft Auto V, and has been performed at the Scottish Storytelling Centre and the Workers Theatre Weekender, among others. He has two pamphlets, Glasgow Flourishes and Know Yr Stuff: Poems on Hedonism, published by small press Tapsalteerie, and holds a PhD in Scottish Literature from the University of Glasgow on the work of ‘avant-gardener’ Ian Hamilton Finlay. Current roles include Co-Director of the Scottish Universities’ International Summer School, tutor in Poetry & Poetics at the University of Glasgow, and positions on the editorial board for Gutter Magazine and All These New Relations. A selection of his work can be found at www.calumrodger.co.uk.
Calum’s Posts and Events:
- PORTS - PORTS, by 2018 Grammarsow poet Calum Rodger, is a pamphlet of classic Twentieth Century poems (including The Nightfishing!) reimagined as video game texts. Handsomely put together by SPAM Press. Available … Continue reading PORTS
- Penwith Hundred - Upon the occasion of WS Graham’s 100th birthday, as the end of the Centenary year edges closer, thoughts on the inaugural Grammarsow. An aim of the project is to in … Continue reading Penwith Hundred
- Falmouth - 6pm - 7:30pm, Sat 15th Sept --- The Vicar's Retreat, The Seven Stars pub, Falmouth --- FREE EVENT Grammarsow poet Calum Rodger will read alongside Andrew Fentham, David Devanny, and … Continue reading Falmouth
- boiok - A new poem by Calum Rodger before he begins his Grammarsow residency. Calum arrives in Cornwall 6th Sept 2018. More on him here: calumrodger.co.uk
- Zennor - 7pm, Weds 12th Sept --- St Senara's Church, Zennor --- FREE EVENT (donations for Church Bell Fund) Grammarsow poet Calum Rodger will read as part of St Ives September Festival. … Continue reading Zennor
- Introducing Calum - The inaugural Grammarsow poet is Calum Rodger. His residency will be in September 2018. Calum is a Glasgow-based poet and researcher, working in performance, print and digital media. He performs widely … Continue reading Introducing Calum
Stewart Sanderson
Our 2019 resident is Stewart Stewart is a poet from Glasgow, just a few miles up the Clyde from Graham’s birthplace in Greenock. His two pamphlets, Fios (2015) and An Offering (2018), are published by Scottish small press Tapsalteerie. Twice shortlisted for the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award, he has been the recipient of an Eric Gregory Award, as well as Robert Louis Stevenson and Jessie Kesson Fellowships. Find out more about Stewart at www.stewartsandersonpoetry.com.
Maria Sledmere
In 2022 we are visited by Maria Sledmere. Maria is a poet, critic and artist based in Glasgow, where she also teaches. Currently, she is Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Strathclyde, and Tutor at the University of Glasgow, Scottish Universities International Summer School and Beyond Form Creative Writing. She holds a DFA from the University of Glasgow on hypercritique and creative-critical approaches to lyric, the everyday and the anthropocene. She is editor-in-chief of SPAM Press and a member of the art and ecology collective, A+E. Having worked with musicians and artists including Lanark Artefax, Zoee and North Sea Dialect, she practices collaboratively and across media, theory and poetics. An exhibition with Katie O’Grady and Jack O’Flynn, The Palace of Humming Trees, was shown at French Street Studios in 2021. With Rhian Williams, she co-edited an anthology, the weird folds: everyday poems from the anthropocene (Dostoyevsky Wannabe, 2020). Her debut collection, The Luna Erratum, is out now with Dostoyevsky Wannabe following pamphlets such as nature sounds without nature sounds (Sad Press, 2019), neutral milky halo (Guillemot Press, 2020) and Chlorophyllia (OrangeApple Press 2020). Recent publications include Sans Soleil, a collaboration with fred spoliar (Face Press/Mermaid Motel, 2022) and String Feeling (Erotoplasty Editions, 2022). Her second collection, Visions & Feed, is forthcoming from HVTN Press.
Website: http://mariasledmere.com
Blog: http://mariaologyy.wordpress.com
Twitter: @mariaxrose
Instagram: @cherry_melancholic