Book launch: 23 February, 6-7.30 pm, Parliament Hall, St Andrews
How Do We Talk About Knives (ed. Samina Chadhry, Marcas Mac an Tuairneir and Rebecca Sharp) is an anthology of new work from writers in Scotland which explores the writers’ own names: the experience and stories that come with a name, instances of misnaming, name changing and name choosing. Distinguished poet and translator Anna Crowe writes that ‘Knives is a book that open doors, an anthology quite unlike any other’.
At the Parliament Hall event on Friday, Vahid Davar, Xinyi Jiang, Elodie Laügt, Marcas Mac an Tuairmeir and Rebecca Sharp will read their poems.
Beth McDonough has written an excellent review of How Do We Talk About Knives, together with Jean Taylor’s Litany of Coal, in DURA (Dundee University Review of the Arts): https://dura-dundee.org.uk/2023/12/19/where-and-who-we-are-two-pamphlets/?fbclid=IwAR05yDT94t3wAj2UtTBLApTQkPqXsAZ_mKbDN0Nw4OqwCuXUFf36MjYLI34
Listen to Vahid Davar being interviewed by Mary Blance for The Books Programme on BBC Radio Shetland: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001t8qt
