By Leaves We Live: A celebration of artists’ books and small presses

Scottish Poetry Library
5 Crichton's Close, Caongate, Edinburgh
Free

The annual one day fair at the Scottish Poetry Library. Stalls, displays and talks. Drop in to browse or buy, meet publishers, artists and poets from Scotland and beyond, and listen to talks on poetry and art publishing. For readers, writers, artists, designers, publishers – all welcome.

Also featuring the first showing at the Library of the duplicator used by Gael Turnbull to print the highly influential Migrant magazine.

Exhibitors will include: Wild Hawthorn Press: the Archive of Ian Hamilton Finlay; Moschatel Press; Weproductions; Painted, Spoken; The Caseroom Press; Akros Publications; Perdika Press; Stitchill Marigold Press; Kettilonia; Helena Nelson; Essence Press; The Fruitmarket Gallery Bookshop.

A taster of talks currently being planned: Duncan Glen (Akros) on poetry & typography; Helen Douglas (Weproductions) on the printing of artists’ books; Richard Price (Painted, Spoken) on Migrant Press; Barrie Tullett on the challenges of designing a poetry book.

A full programme will be available on the Scottish Poetry Library website