John Glenday & Kim Edgar

"I went out to the hazel wood,/ Because a fire was in my head"

In the final part of our Highland trilogy, Ryan chats with John Glenday about what it's like to be a drug counsellor and a poet, which poem he carries with him and we get an opportunity to hear John read from new collection, Grain (Picador). We also have the track 'Nothing to Hold Onto' by Kim Edgar, which was a response to a work by John during the 7 Short Sails project. Presented by Ryan van Winkle. Produced by Colin Fraser. Incidental music by Ewen Maclean.

Email Ryan and Colin with your comments: splpodcast@gmail.com

Or subscribe without iTunes (RSS)

Listen now…

Or download as MP3

First published 28 January, 2010

John Glenday

John Glenday was born in Broughty Ferry in 1952. His first collection, The Apple Ghost, won a Scottish Arts Council Book Award and his second, Undark, was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. His most recent collection, Grain (Picador, 2009) is also a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. He lives in Drumnadrochit and works for NHS Highland as an addictions counsellor. 

• Read more about John
  

About Kim Edgar

Kim Edgar is a piano/guitar playing songwriter who released butterflies and broken glass, her compelling debut "urban folk pop" album about the beauty and broken-ness of everyday life in 2008. Nominated Album of the Week twice at Radio Scotland, the album also received critical acclaim in national and regional press.

• Read more about Kim
  

We recommend...

	Grain by John Glenday Picador, 2009 Though John Glenday has long been admired for his lyrically delicate and emotionally powerful poetry, he has remained something of a well-kept secret. His third collection, Grain, makes his singular talent available to a wider audience.   SPL shelfmark 3.Gle
	W B Yeats Selected Poems edited by Timothy Webb Penguin, 1991 W B Yeats has been popular in our Carry a Poem campaign, with many folk admitting his to be the poems they keep close. John carries Yeats' 'The Song of the Wandering Aengus' in his head. SPL shelfmark 3.Yea

Find out more...

• Check SPL catalogue and borrow these items

Also in this podcast ...

• 7 Short Sails Project
• Kim Edgar's website
• Carry a Poem campaign

With thanks to...

• Colin Fraser at Anon magazine for podcast production
• Ewen Maclean of The Hale Clamjamphrey for the incidental music

Image: Sleat, Skye © Peggy Hughes