Writers' Shift

Janette Ayachi

Callie Gardner

Jane Goldman

Iain Morrison

Tom Pow

with Shola von Reinhold

What happens when a team of poets joins a major cultural organisation busily remaking itself ready for the middle years of the 21st century? And what results when you throw a slew of unpredictable geopolitical and social shifts into their path?

The answer is a treasure chest of insights. The poems, essays and illustrations within this book find fascination in 50 years of art and artists at the Fruitmarket in the centre of Edinburgh. In their subject matter are the movements of creative work and ideas across borders, the make-up and history of the city, and gothic fantasies of galleries reimagined as mortuaries or as gardens. As well as a temperature check on a remarkable time in a specific place, pulsing through it all is the abundant imaginative energy needed to convince us to make our commitment to new living.

This was a limited print run.

Authors: Janette Ayachi, Callie Gardner, Jane Goldman, Iain Morrison, Tom Pow, Shola von Reinhold.

With artwork by Kate Livingstone. 

Published in 2022

Isbn: 9781908612618

Dimensions: 270 x 180 x 17 mm

196 pages