Dawn Gorman believes poetry should be everywhere - puts it on beermats, uses it to
work with people with memory loss, facilitates writing workshops, organises poetry
events and runs international poetry competitions. She is widely published, and has
performed in New York, Paris, London - and lots of smaller places in between.

“Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket;
you put your life into it and make something out of that.” Mary Oliver

Past Events

10th August 2016

Me performing on the Royal Mile at Edinburgh Fringe 2015.

Beached

10th - 14th August 2016, 11:00am - 6:00pm, The EDS Gallery, 13A Great King Street, Edinburgh EH3 6QW

I'm back at Edinburgh Fringe this year, again collaborating with fabulous ceramicist Liz Watts as poet in residence in The EDS Gallery. Liz's installation this time is Beached, where visitors can explore the sea's edge through legend, environment and flotsam's intrigues. Mediums include bronze, ceramic and papier-mache. And I will be writing poems 'live' in response to those pieces - and performing them to visitors in the gallery. I'll be there August 10th-14th, 11am-6pm. And I'll be running a special edition of Words & Ears at the gallery on Thursday August 11th, with fab Edinburgh-based poets Georgi Gill and J L Williams, 7.30pm-10.