Poetry at Earth in Common: Halloween edition

Earth in Common is proud to present three prolific writers at the top of their game with translations from Gaelic in the 18th century, with a slew of books and a host of spooky poems; all about our relationship to nature, sensation and life.

In our world of climate anxiety, they offer a place of solace.

Join us for our Halloween night. Poems are spells, blessed be to all.

Doors 7pm for a 7:30pm start. Licensed bar - Wine, Beer and snacks available

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Taylor Strickland is from Tallahassee, Florida. His latest book is Dwell Time (Tapsalteerie, November 2025). His last collection Dastram/Delirium (Broken Sleep Books, 2023) won the Saltire Society Award for Scottish Poetry Book of the Year and was a Poetry Book Society Translation Choice. His poems were The Scotsman Poem of the Week, and published in Poetry London, New Statesman, the TLS, The Rialto, and elsewhere. He lives in Aberfeldy._

David Kinloch is from Glasgow. He is the author of six collections mostly published by Carcanet the most recent being Greengown: New and Selected Poems (2022). A short play in Scots about the Renaissance calligrapher, Esther Inglis, just came out from Blue Diode (2025). His 2017 collection, In Search of Dustie-Fute was shortlisted for the Saltire Award and in 2022 he won a Cholmondeley Award in recognition of his contribution to poetry. He is currently emeritus professor of poetry at the University of Strathclyde.

Vik Shirley is a poet from Bristol living in Edinburgh. Her first book of surreal prose poems was Corpses (Sublunary Editions, 2020) and her most recent is Some Deer (Broken Sleep, 2024). Her third book of photo poetry, Persona Digitalia, was selected for the inaugural Photoworks P5 series and will be published in November. Her work has appeared in Poetry London, PN Review, The Rialto, Gutter and Magma. Vik has a PhD in Dark Humour and the Surreal in Poetry from the University of Birmingham. She co-edits SPITE PRESS.

Medha Singh is a poet from Delhi, based in Edinburgh. She is a winner of the New Writers Award 2023 (Scottish Book Trust). Her work of translation I Will Bring My Time: Love Letters from S.H. Raza was published in 2020 through The Raza Foundation, in collaboration with Art Vadehra. Her poems appear in Irish Pages, Almost Island, 3:AM, The Dark Horse, Bad Lilies, Interpret, The Bombay Literary Magazine, Indian Quarterly, The Robert Graves Review among numerous others. Her work has been anthologized in Singing in the Dark (Penguin, 2020), The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction (Hachette, 2021), Contemporary Indian Poetry by Younger Indians (Sahitya Akademi, 2020), Best Indian Poetry 2018 (RLFPA editions), Divining Dante (Recent Work Press, 2021), Future Library: Contemporary Indian Writing (Red Hen Press, 2022); Converse: Contemporary English Poetry by Indians (Penguin Random House, 2022); The Best Asian Poetry (Kitaab, 2022).

Medha was longlisted for the Toto Funds the Arts Awards (India) in 2019 and 2020. She took her MSc in Creative Writing from the University of Edinburgh. Her work has been translated into Hindi, Spanish and French. She is editor-at-large at Pen and Anvil Press, Boston.