1 Jan - Haiku commissioned for
Resolution Square
10 Jan – INTERVIEW and READING on BBC Radio 3
16 Jan- Interview
and reading featured on BBC Radio 4’s PICK OF THE WEEK
19 Jan – Meeting with David Maclennan to discuss play to
be
commissioned by Oran Mor (Glasgow)
25 Jan – JUDGE (with Janice Forsyth and Robyn Marsack) of
‘poppypoems’ at the Scottish Poetry Library
FEBRUARY
7 Feb- ECAT Discussion Group
14 Feb – full-page article in Edinburgh Evening News about
song lyrics for City of Literature’s Let’s Get Lyrical
project
MARCH
2 Mar – Meeting with British Council re
regular online
stories for their English Language teaching
3 Mar – Meeting with Scottish
Opera
re possible new opera
4 Mar – READING at Edinburgh University
(as Royal Literary
Fund Fellow)
5 Mar – Guest of Scottish Opera at
performance of Handel’s Orlando
14 Mar – Guest at Creative Scotland
dinner to meet academic
deputation from Italy.
17 Mar – SPECIALIST ADVISOR
on
Creative Scotland Writers’ Bursary Panel
17 Mar – POEM (A Recipe for Whisky)
on permanent
display in Caledonian Hilton
18 Mar – Pre-concert talk for Scottish
Chamber Orchestra at
City Halls, Glasgow
19 Mar – Pre-concert talk for SCO at the
Queen’s Hall,
Edinburgh
21 Mar – ECAT Discussion Group
22 Mar – Reception for Swiss Consulate
25 Mar to 15 April – READING TOUR (and
holiday!) in
Switzerland
APRIL
9 April – Three READINGS (including
Official Opening) at the
City2Cities Festival in Utrecht
21 April – SPEECH at the
National
Galleries of Scotland Prize-giving
MAY
2-16 May – ‘DISTINGUISHED SCOTTISH
WRITER for 2011’ at Cove
Park International Centre
17 May – GUEST of the National Theatre
of Scotland at
performance of Dunsinane
19 May – TALK at Edinburgh
University’s Office Livelong Learning
20 May – MEETING to discuss my
participation in this year’s
EIBF
20 May - INTERVIEW (given) to the Scotsman
(Pulse)
24 May – GUEST at Scottish Opera’s
production of Rigoletto
27 MAY – READING in Greyfriar’s Church
to introduce
Beethoven concert series
28 May – READING commissioned poem to
celebrate the Saltire
Society’s 75th anniversary (Trades Hall,
Glasgow)
JUNE
14 June – MEETING with Scottish Opera to
discuss new opera
(possible co-production with companies in New Zealand and
Austria)
17 June – SPEECH and READING
commissioned poem for Saltire
Society at Edinburgh Arts Club
28 June – 25 July GUEST at Chateau
Lavigny (Switzerland)
International Writers Centre.
AUGUST
5 Aug – GUEST at Creative Scotland
dinner for Anne Carson
the Canadian poet
5-20 AUG - Appearances on Edinburgh
Fringe Festival in show
based on my book Vivaldi and the Number 3 (with
Jazz maestros Dick Lee
and Anne Evans)
10 Aug – SPEECH and READING to Summer
School of University
of Gottingen
5-19 Aug – Lecturing and workshops at
Edinburgh University
24 – CHAIRING crime writers’ event at
EIBF
26 Aug – READING at EIBF
28 Aug – SPEECH and READING (for Amnesty
International) at
EIBF
29 Aug – ACTING (!!) In Alasdair Gray’s
play Fleck at
the EIBF
SEPTEMBER
3 Sept – Wordplay Festival (Shetland)
5-16
Sept – Visiting Primary Schools in Shetland
15
Sept - INTERVIEW for Shetland Times
15
Sept - INTERVIEW for BBC Radio Shetland
21
Sept - SPEECHat
Edinburgh University
27
Sept - SPEECH and READING (Robert Burns) at Scottish
Poetry Library
28
Sept - MEETING to discuss The Magicians
of Edinburgh as a Fringe Show for 2012
30
Sept - MEETING to discuss poems for BBC Radio show and
Celtic Connections
festival
30 Sept - SPEECH at ADULT EDUCATION
MATTERS launch at
Edinburgh Central Library
OCTOBER
2 Oct - Ghost Moon (new novel) completed and sent
to agent
3 Oct - Start setting up
series of talks and workshops at
various Edinburgh schools
4
Oct - Start revising first draft of new poetry collection,
The Magicians of Edinburgh,due to be published next year
6
Oct - GUEST at SCO concert
12
Oct - GUEST at Spanish National Day lunch
13
Oct - RECORDING poem for BBC
20
Oct - GUEST at Swiss Ambassador’s Concert
26
Oct - READING at NORTH LANARKSHIRE 2011 WORDS FESTIVAL
28
Oct - READING at Neu Reekie! (at Scottish Book Trust,
Edinburgh)
29
Oct – GUEST at Jame Boswell Unveiling at Makar’s Court
NOVEMBER
2 Nov – SPEECH at Royal Overseas League
lunch
3 Nov -First TALK
in a series, ‘Symphonies for All’, at Edinburgh University
2012
A new collection of poetry on Edinburgh
themes, The
Magicians of Edinburgh, to be published.