Wigtown Book Festival

Mermaid Indoors

Basil du Toit

The winning poem of last year's Wigtown Poetry Prize to celebrate the launch of this year's competition.

The Return of the Brownie

For Year of Stories 2022, we asked Hugh McMillan to write a sequel to William Nicholson's much-loved 'The Brownie of Blednoch'. The result is joyful but also a lament for a vanishing tongue.

Hello, Stranger Poems

Whin Ah get back tae NYC

For our 2021 festival we commissioned a series of poems on the theme of "Hello Stranger". Here Hugh Bryden imagines being reunited with New York.

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Solway

Alan McClure

The eleventh, and final, in our 2020 festival series of readings by poets from Dumfries & Galloway.

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Solway Shore

Annie McCrae

The tenth in our 2020 festival series of readings by poets from Dumfries & Galloway.

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Gear Shift

Gill Butler-Orli

The ninth in our 2020 festival series of readings by poets from Dumfries & Galloway.

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Me and Katie Morrison, The Watergaw

Josie Neill

The eighth in our 2020 festival series of readings by poets from Dumfries & Galloway and a special exclusive for National Poetry Day.

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The Sadness of Second Hand Books

Anndra Wilson

The seventh in our 2020 festival series of readings by poets from Dumfries & Galloway.

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Climbing Criffel

Gillian Mellor

The sixth in our 2020 festival series of readings by poets from Dumfries & Galloway.

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Vanishing Point

Martin Joseph O Neill

The fifth in our 2020 festival series of readings by poets from Dumfries & Galloway.

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The Gardener’s Diary

Jeanette Abendstern

The fourth in our 2020 festival series of readings by poets from Dumfries & Galloway.

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Beyond Criffel

Peter Roberts

The third in our 2020 festival series of readings by poets from Dumfries & Galloway.

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Scenes of The Solway

Celia Donovan

The second in our 2020 festival series of readings by poets from Dumfries & Galloway.

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Water birth

Fiona Lindsay

The first in our 2020 festival series of readings by poets from Dumfries & Galloway.

Catch and Release

Beverley Bie Brahic

Beverley Bie Brahic won the Alastair Reid Pamphlet Prize in the 2019 Wigtown Poetry Prize: read her collection here.

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