That was one winter.

A poet came to our island to find silent verse.

He walked the streets, danced on the snow field,

played with a dog, he was blown by sea winds,

got moderately drunk, and lived in a garret.

He disappeared before we knew it,

and there was no one left but seven poems…

 

 

Introduction
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In the winter of 2013, a Japanese poet Uchida Go stayed in Scotland.
While he lived in Edinburgh, he also travelled to the countryside,
he saw a lot of scenery and met a lot of people and wrote seven poems.
This spring, seven poems will change into seven handwritten posters,
and return with him to Edinburgh, Scotland. Please listen to the new
stories of Scotland written with a creative sense of a Japanese poet.

 

Date
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Friday 18th April  ~  Tuesday 29th April 2014
11:00 am  ~  5:30 pm
[closed] Sunday, Monday 

 

Opening Party with Poetry Reading
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Friday 18th April 2014
7:00  ~ 9:00 pm

 

Place
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Hannah Zakari
43 Candlemaker Row, Edinburgh,  EH1 2QB  Scotland, UK

 

 

 

Profile
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Uchida Go was born in Hiroshima Japan in 1983. He studied law
at university as well as writing poems and designing graphic images
on his own. His first book of poems “Backyard” and second book of
poems “Confession” was privately published in 2003 and 2004.
His picture book “Raven the storyteller” was published in 2009, and
his allegory “Okonomori” was published in 2011, by the Sloth Club.
And his third book of poems “Akichi-no-Katte” was published in 2012,
and his poetry card series “flower in the garden of poetry” was
published in 2013, on his own . His creative works are full of allegory,
satire, and humor.