Do You Still Have Time for Chaos? Launch Event with Lynn Davidson - Thursday 2nd April 2026

Join us in the bookshop to hear Lynn Davidson in conversation with Robin Marsack about Do You Still Have Time for Chaos?

6.30pm on Thursday 2nd April at Golden Hare Books, 68 St Stephen Street, EH3 5AQ.

Buy a copy of Do You Still Have Time for Chaos? and receive free entry to the event, or choose our Ticket-Only option for £6 (which can be used towards a purchase of the book at the event).

Do You Still Have Time for Chaos? is not yet published. Any pre-ordered copies will be available to collect at the event.

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About Lynn Davidson Lynn Davidson is a New Zealand writer living in Edinburgh. She writes poetry, essays and fiction, including a sonnet series Return to Kāpiti Island published by House of Three Publishers in Edinburgh in 2018. Lynn’s work has appeared in journals and anthologies including PN Review, Sport, Best of Best New Zealand Poems, Essential New Zealand Poems, TEXT, Australian Poetry Journal, Cordite, and Another English: Anglophone Poems from Around the World. She is one part of 12 (a collaboration of 12 Edinburgh women writers). In 2016 Lynn spent time writing in a bothy in the Cairngorms on a Bothy Project Residency. In 2013 she had a Hawthornden Castle Fellowship, and in 2011 was Visiting Artist at Massey University in New Zealand. She recently completed a Ph.D in Creative Writing through Massey University. Lynn teaches creative writing and works as a learning advisor in libraries for Edinburgh Council. Author photo credit: Ebony Lamb

About Robin Marsack Born and raised in New Zealand, Robyn Marsack obtained her DPhil from Oxford, and began her career in publishing at Carcanet Press. On moving to Glasgow, she became a freelance editor, critic and occasional translator from French. Director of the Scottish Poetry Library 2000-2016, she was later an RLF Writing Fellow at Glasgow University. She has served on the boards of literary organisations in England, Scotland and Wales, remaining on the boards of Carcanet and of the grant-making Edwin Morgan Trust. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

About Do You Still Have Time for Chaos? Do You Still Have Time for Chaos? tells the story of poet and teacher Lynn Davidson’s late-life decision to leave Aotearoa New Zealand, with scant resources, to build a life in Scotland. In 2020, walking the Covid-emptied streets of Edinburgh, she begins her memoir.

Davidson’s look back at what made and fractured her includes an account of single-parenting in the shadow of poverty and stigma, and is interwoven with the ghostly presence of her uncontainable and courageous great aunt, and the long reach of witch hunts.

This is a love letter to the literature of Scotland and Aotearoa New Zealand. It has an ear to the land and its stories. It is a celebration of choice. It is an act of resistance to the persistent idea that women are safer to stay at home.