Auld Enemies - July 2014

7 locales : over 40 poets : a national tour of Scotland
& brand new innovative poetic collaborations : a Scottish Enemies project

The Enemies project: Auld Enemies was a groundbreaking transnational poetry collaboration project where six poets worked in rolling pairs to produce original works for readings across the breadth of Scotland. Each event also featured numerous pairs of writers from the region, who presented brand new poetry collaborations as well. Auld Enemies was an exploration of contemporary Scottish poetics through the potential of collaboration. Auld Enemies commenced with a six date tour of Scotland, taking in Dundee, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Lerwick in the Shetlands and finished with Kirkwall in the Orkneys. It concluded with an event in London, at the Rich Mix Arts Centre, on July 26th 2014, which featured many of the new works from the tour, new collaborations and a documentary screening about Auld Enemies, which you can view here.

Auld Enemies is co-curated by Ryan Van Winkle
You can read detailed blogs about the tour here: www.stevenjfowler.com/auldenemies

Auld Enemies begins - Dundee : July 15th 2014 at University of Dundee

Auld Enemies: Dundee
William Letford & nick-e melville https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9nguF0rryY
Andy Jackson & Lindsay McGregor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKnLOyDcAes
Ryan Van Winkle & SJ Fowler https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acEzvn2oOw8
Jim Stewart & Dawn Wood https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qWcQDijin8
Richard Watt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJizJchW6F4
Colin Herd & Ross Sutherland https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnP3q4tGV6k

Auld Enemies - Glasgow : July 10th 2014 at Mcchuills

Auld Enemies diary - Edinburgh: July 11th at Summerhall

Auld Enemies diary - Aberdeen: July 12th at Cellar 35

Auld Enemies: Aberdeen
SJ Fowler & William Letford https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6km9ykR0mm8
Keith Murray https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fT2Cyw951Oo
Gerard Rochford & Richie Brown https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sx6vqnCVyk
Colin Herd & Ryan Van Winkle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmIxnofK4Vk
Maureen Ross & Catriona Yule https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hz6YQ-j0Yhk
Haworth Hodgkinson & Bernard Briggs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLeHB1pJZIY
nick-e melville & Ross Sutherland https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ddd62svSWU

Auld Enemies diary - Lerwick: July 14th at Mareel

Laurajayne Friedlander https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_uFxkRzZy0
Donald Murray https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoL4oheG8vU
Colin Herd & SJ Fowler https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rv_o3xH7yUE
Ross Sutherland & Ryan Van Winkle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIz_GmfchMk
Nat Hall & James Sinclair https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVrGiJIVErQ

Auld Enemies diary - Kirkwall: July 17th at Kirkwall Library

Auld Enemies Kirkwall
nick-e melville & Colin Herd & Ross Sutherland & SJ Fowler https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkVfrWtSLMQ
Rosie Alexander & Rosemary Merriman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2C0NqXaSLHI
Pam Beasant & Lydia Harris https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjKp7E7aXXg

Auld Enemies in London

Auld Enemies London
Ross Sutherland & Colin Herd & Ryan Van Winkle & nick-e melville & SJ Fowler https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSUC5L742SQ
Emily Berry & John Clegg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJeKEFHrpUA
Vahni Capildeo & Jeremy Noel-Tod https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfA6MIC94mo
Tim Atkins & Jeff Hilson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bi6wp_2wLFQ
Nick Murray & Eley Williams https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9RD4-hGK84
Kirsty Irving & Harry Man https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VP91dLg1qk

The Auld Fold

As part of Kathrine Sowerby's beautiful Four Fold publication series, five of the core touring poets also produced this collaborative poem that was published in January 2015 as the Auld Fold, featuring nick-e melville, Colin Herd, Ryan Van Winkle, Ross Sutherland and SJ Fowler. https://fourdotfold.wordpress.com/

the Hidden Door festival : March in the Vaults of Edinburgh

This took place before Auld Enemies, a precursor, in March 2014, and served as a preliminary project to the tour, with a full camarade lineup of collaborations that will live long in the memory.

& the Walking tour in the vaults themselves.

nick-e melville https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRT0nfo5jKk
Tom Jenks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWz4ujZR1oY
Lila Matsumoto https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4adPSKVdUI
JL Williams https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDnfU2d_5C4
Samantha Walton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuyWqK4r3eA
Ryan Van Winkle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_h2Na_Er7EA