AGAIN: POETRY AT ITS LIMITS . A FREE poetry reading by Edinburgh poets David Hopkins, Vic Shirley and Nicky Melville

Dunoon MOCA is pleased to announce its second annual poetry event Poetry at its Limits  Coordinated by Professor David Hopkins.

Saturday September 27 2-4.30pm 

All are welcome to this free reading event by the following poets:   

David Hopkins is Emeritus Professor of Art History and Theory at the University of Glasgow. An acknowledged expert on Dada and Surrealism, he has published widely on these movements, and on artists such as Marcel Duchamp and Max Ernst. 2016.) At the same time he avidly pursued writing poetry that follows in the footsteps of Surrealism. Performing it in multiple venues over the years including the Morden Town Newcastle along with Bob Cobbing. He has also organized numerous poetry events/readings. In 2022 he coordinated a reading event Sonic/ Poetics at the Fruitmarket Edinburgh and this, the second iteration of Poetry at its Limits at DunoonMOCA.

Nicky [nick-e] Melville has been described positively as an ‘avant-radge’ and pejoratively as ‘a poet.’ Melville’s most recent publications are visual pieces: Power Cuts (zimZalla, 2024), soundingout (Essence Press, 2024) and magic’s quair, a free card with Timglaset, 2023. His magnum-opus (to date!) The Imperative Commands came out with Dostoyevsky Wannabe in 2022 and Decade of Cu ts, his selected poems was published in 2021 with Blue Diode Press.

Vik Shirley is a poet, writer, editor and educator from Bristol, England, now living in Edinburgh, Scotland. Her collection, The Continued Closure of the Blue Door (HVTN), her pamphlets Corpses (Sublunary Editions), Grotesquerie for the Apocalypse (Beir Bua) and Poets (The Red Ceilings) and her book of photo-poetry Disrupted Blue and other poems on Polaroid (Hesterglock) were all published 2020-2022.Her most recent publication is Some Deer, published by Broken Sleep.

Dunoon MOCA (Museum of Contemporary Art), 18 Ferry Brae, Dunoon, PA23 7DJ,