[West Port] Kei Millar
Kei Miller reads from his astonishing new collection of poems A Light Song of Light, and from his latest novel, The Last Warner Woman. Kei is a Jamaic...
West Port Book Festival Podcasts
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The West Port is Edinburgh’s Soho, a heady mix of booze, bosoms, bespoke tailoring and books. We run an annual book festival that plays out over 11 wonderful West Port venues, ranging from singular second-hand bookshops to crisp art spaces and whisky-scented pubs.
[West Port] Ewan Morrison
Ewan Morrison reads a brilliant short story from his new project, Tales from the Mall. He has worked as a film director before making his authorial dé...
[West Port] Chloe Morrish & Jim Carruth
Farmer poet Jim Carruth grew up on his family’s farm near Kilbarchan. His poems have been widely published and anthologised and his debut collection, ...
[West Port] Frank Quitely
We were very chuffed to announce our mystery guest was the fantastic Scottish comic book artist Frank Quitely. He is best known for his frequent colla...
[West Port] Scott-land
No-one has been as famous as Walter Scott and become as forgotten. He was so popular that, if you could read in the early 19th Century, you had read S...
[West Port] Collective Nouns with Stuart Kelly
Author and literary editor Stuart Kelly is a closet fan of collective nouns, those brilliant and brain-bending terms that allow us to junk a dullard '...
[West Port] Living legend Jim Haynes
Jim Haynes is a living legend. Flâneur, writer, publisher, former book shop owner and host to many hundreds of thousands over the years he’s spent wel...
[West Port] The Book of Lost Books with Stuart Kelly
In The Book of Lost Books, Stuart Kelly reaches into the recesses of history to trace books, great or perhaps otherwise, that have been lost, stolen, ...
[West Port] "The Canterville Ghost": A Dramatic Recitation by Owen Dudley Edwards
A dramatic recitation of Oscar Wilde's The Canterville Ghost by multi-talented literary historian Owen Dudley Edwards. An expert on fellow Irish wit W...
[West Port] Douglas Dunn
Librarian by training, poet by vocation, Professor Dunn’s many achievements in poetry include the Somerset-Maugham Award winning Terry Street, Love or...