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StAnza 2010Ryan heads to Scotland's International Poetry Festival, StAnza, to lap up the atmosphere. He managed to grab poets Jim Carruth, Karen Solie and Jay Bernard to share their thoughts and feelings on poetry in general and StAnza in particular. We also have the very great pleasure to include the wonderful Itinerant Librarian, who has been travelling the world for the past four years with her portable poetry library. |
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Jay Bernard is from London. She won the Respect Slam in 2004 and the Foyle's Young Poets competition in 2005. She has read her work on radio shows such as The Verb, The Green Room and the Today Show; and appeared at venues from Trafalgar Square and Shakespeare's Globe, to the Vienna Lit festival in Austria and Bluestockings in New York. Your Sign is Cuckoo, Girl, her first pamphlet, was recently selected as the Poetry Book Society's pamphlet choice for summer 2008. 
Jim Carruth was born in Johnstone in 1963 and grew up on a dairy farm near Kilbarchan. He still works on the family farm at the weekends, which he finds a continuing source of inspiration. To date, Carruth has brought out three poetry collections, of which the first, Bovine Pastoral, was runner up for the Callum Macdonald Memorial Award in 2004. He is also the current chair of St Mungo's Mirrorball – the Glasgow network of Poets. 
Karen Solie was born in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan in 1966 and grew up on the family farm in the southwest of the province. Her first book of poems, Short Haul Engine (Brick Books 2001), won the BC Book Prize Dorothy Livesay Award, and was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize, the Gerald Lampert Award, and the ReLit Prize. Her second, Modern and Normal (Brick Books 2005), was shortlisted for the Trillium Poetry Prize.
The aims, ethos and story of the Itinerant Poetry Librarian are utterly delightful, but we can't possibly condense it all for you here. You'll have to look at her website...
