A night of Scottish poetry hosted by the Society of Authors, with readings from Iona Lee, Colin Bramwell and Zainab Imran.

This event is a chance for poets and readers to come together and celebrate some of the great new poetry that Scotland has to offer. There will also be an opportunity for members of the Society of Authors to share their own work.

Meet the poets

Colin Bramwell is a writer and translator, mainly of poetry. He was born in Ayrshire, grew up in Fortrose on the Black Isle and lives in Edinburgh. His first book of translations into Scots, Fower Pessoas (Carcanet 2025), won the Highland Book Prize and the Oxford Weidenfeld Translation Prize, and was shortlisted for best book at the Scots Language awards and selected as one of The TLS Best Books of 2025. His debut collection of poems, Fetch, was published by And Other Stories in September of 2026, and is a Poetry Book Society Autumn 2026 Recommendation.

Iona Lee is a writer from Edinburgh whose work spans poetry, visual art, live performance, and music. She has appeared on radio and television, and has read her work in venues and on festival stages all over the UK and Europe, everywhere from Cornwall to Shetland, Paris to Berlin, dive bars to the Royal Albert Hall. Her critically-acclaimed debut collection, Anamnesis, was published by Polygon in 2023, was shortlisted for the Edwin Morgan Award, and won the Somerset Maugham Award. In 2024, she published What I Love About A Cloud Is Its Unpredictability with Trickhouse Press: a body of experimental eco-poetics made through interactions with the geolocation software what3words. Iona appears as frontwoman in the band Acolyte, and their debut EP The Blue Dark, was released with Lost Map Records in 2026. Her work is concerned with themes of folklore, philosophy, magic, memory, and media, and she is currently working on her third collection.

Zainab Imran is a poet, facilitator and museum worker based in Edinburgh. In 2022, Zainab won the Royal Society of Literature Sky Arts Award for Poetry and was shortlisted for the Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize in 2024. She recently won the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award 2026.

Hosted by Tom Bailey, member of the Society of Authors in Scotland Committee. Tom is a poet and editor based in Edinburgh. His debut pamphlet, Please Do Not Touch or Feed the Horses, won an Eric Gregory Award in 2025.

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