An Evening of Poetry with Rosamund Taylor and Rachel Plummer

About the Event

When: Thursday 31st October 2024 at 6.30pm.

Where: Golden Hare Books, Edinburgh, EH3 5AQ

Join us at the bookshop for an evening of poetry readings from Rosamund Taylor and Rachel Plummer. Together, their work explores queer themes alongside the natural and supernatural world – perhaps the perfect thing for Hallowe'en, when the veil is thinnest!

Order a copy of either book and receive a free ticket to the event! Alternatively, our ticket-only option is available for £5 (which can be used towards a purchase of either book at the event – both will be available).

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About the poets

Rachel Plummer is a recipient of the Scottish Book Trust’s New Writers Award for poetry, and has had work published in a range of journals and anthologies. Their first book, Wain, is a collection of LGBTQ+ retellings of Scottish folklore. Their latest poetry collection, Once I Carried Three Crows, is published by Tapsalteerie. Rachel lives in Edinburgh with their two children, three guinea pigs, and entirely too many books.

Rosamund Taylor’s debut collection, In Her Jaws (Banshee Press 2022), was shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Poetry Prize for a First Collection and the Yeats Society Poetry Prize, and longlisted for the Polari First Book Prize. Widely published, her work has appeared in Butcher’s Dog, Fourteen Poems, The Rialto, Poetry Ireland Review and MsLexia, and been anthologised in Queering the Green: Post-2000s Queer Irish Poetry (Lifeboat Press).