Push The Boat Out: Edinburgh’s International Poetry Festival
Diverse, eclectic, entertaining and challenging - contemporary poetry is in pretty great shape. A venn diagram with poetry at its heart, Push the Boat Out is where artforms conspire, cross-pollinate... [more]
Push The Boat Out: Edinburgh’s International Poetry Festival
Push the Boat Out is a brand new poetry festival, showcasing fresh, provocative, radical, audacious, and inspiring poetry, hip hop and spoken word, bringing people together to enjoy, experience and... [more]
Push The Boat Out: Festival Pass 2023 - SOLD OUT
Make sure you don’t miss a single thing from our incredible 2023 programme, by taking advantage of our festival pass - allowing you to access as many events as you want. With a very limited number... [more]
Rock the Boat: Push the Boat Out's Monthly Open Mic
We know you've been longing for the Return of the Open Mic Night. We've missed that wholesome, electric je-ne-sais-quois in the air at open mics, and we're ready to bring them back to you, free and... [more]
Rock the Boat: Push the Boat Out's Monthly Open Mic
We know you've been longing for the Return of the Open Mic Night. We've missed that wholesome, electric je-ne-sais-quois in the air at open mics, and we're ready to bring them back to you, free and... [more]
Rock the Boat: Push the Boat Out's Monthly Open Mic
We know you've been longing for the Return of the Open Mic Night. We've missed that wholesome, electric je-ne-sais-quois in the air at open mics, and we're ready to bring them back to you, free and... [more]
Push The Boat Out: Festival Closing Party with Rock the Boat & Arusa Qureshi
Finish the festival in style at our closing party with a special festival edition of Rock the Boat open mic, hosted by vivacious poets Catherine Wilson Garry and Julia Sorensen, followed by drinks,... [more]
Push The Boat Out: Rock the Boat
Rock the Boat is Push the Boat Out’s monthly open mic night, hosted by vivacious poets Catherine Wilson Garry and Julia Sorensen. Well-known and loved as a space to trial out new work, reintroduce... [more]
CANCELLED Push The Boat Out: Developing Your BSL Poetry
Unfortunately, due to circumstances beyond our control this event has been cancelledWriter, actor and poet, Bea Webster-Mockett, facilitates this d/Deaf-only space within Push the Boat Out... [more]
Push The Boat Out: Poetry for the Many with Jeremy Corbyn and Len McCluskey
As well as a shared belief in a fairer, more equal Britain, former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and trade unionist Len McCluskey share a love of poetry. In this special event, they come together to... [more]
Open Book 'Push the Boat Out' Participants
Open Book groups write together in community settings across Scotland – from Ullapool to Eyemouth, and from the islands off Shetland to Dumfries and Galloway - with groups running in English,... [more]
Push The Boat Out: Live Poetry Scenes
Discover what’s what and who’s who in the live poetry scenes of Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Newcastle in this informative panel that is sure to inspire you to join in with what’s going on... [more]
Push The Boat Out: Poetry in Motion: Embodied Poetics To Help Expand Your Practice
Choreopoet Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa is known for her groundbreaking work in uniting poetry and dance on the page and stage, in this workshop Safiya will be guiding you through unique exercises to help... [more]
Push The Boat Out: Red Bean Poetry Takeover
Red Bean Poetry take over the Old Lab to platform four incredibly talented, and very different, poets, all with connection to Scotland. Tim Tim Cheng, Anna Cheung and Lady Red Ego will all read from... [more]
Manipulate Festival 2022
There have been some changes to the MANIPULATE 2022 programme. Please see the organiser’s full update about these changes at this link.MANIPULATE Festival presents the very best of Scottish and... [more]
Push The Boat Out: Preparing For Your First Open Mic
Rock the Boat is Push the Boat Out’s monthly open mic night, hosted by vivacious poets Catherine Wilson Garry and Julia Sorensen. Well-known and loved as a space to trial out new work, reintroduce... [more]
Push the Boat Out: Accent Society presents Contemporary Chinese Poetry
Accent Society is a nomadic literary organization that facilitates synergies across languages, borders, and media. It is a home where accents become the strongest notes.Here, we are pleased to... [more]
Push The Boat Out: The Lantern LIVE with Kathleen Jamie, Alistair Heather and Niall Campbel
Reminding us that poetry is made for the ear, Scottish Makar, Kathleen Jamie, and host, Alistair Heather, join us at Push the Boat Out for a special live recording of The Lantern podcast. They will... [more]
Push The Boat Out: IF YOU'VE SEEN IT, YOU HAVEN'T SEEN IT: An Exhibition of Poetry and Photography by Ellen Renton
An immersive audio guide leads its listener through a series of images; an unreliable narrator, its tone fluctuates between direct, abstractly poetic, and contemplative, provoking questions about the... [more]
Push the Boat Out: Unleashing SCORE's Youth Voices
Join us for an exciting first performance by a group of Edinburgh's BPOC young people. The culmination of a collaboration between Bee Asha, Push the Boat Out and SCOREscotland, this celebrates these... [more]
Push The Boat Out: Dumpling Poetry
Part cooking-class, part-poetry reading, Dumpling Poetry promises a delicious afternoon of tasty morsels for the ears and the taste buds. Gather round the table with writer and performance maker Sean... [more]
Open Mic: Game Over
Fancy a slot in the next Push the Boat Out? Or maybe you've been inspired or disgusted by the festival and have something powerful to say... Round off the end of your festival weekend with a very... [more]
Push The Boat Out: Seeds: New Poetic Performances
The very first showing of three new poetry-led performance pieces, commissioned by Push The Boat Out in association with National Theatre of Scotland.Developed on the theme of "seed" and... [more]
Push The Boat Out: Poetry Jam with Leyla Josephine and Band
Interested to explore your poetry in conversation with music? Want to try out improvising lyrically with a band? Here’s your chance. Part open mic, part jam session, this unique event gives you the... [more]
Poems from a Dangerous Year
And what a year (and a bit) it has been! Push the Boat Out seeks to celebrate and interrogate the role that poetry plays in helping us reflect on, challenge, and make sense of the world around us. In... [more]
Push the Boat Out: Writing Workshop with Meena Kandasamy
An incredible chance to write and converse with one of the world’s most exciting radical thinkers, Indian poet, novelist and activist Meena Kandasamy, in this online writing workshop.Described... [more]
Double Bill: Calum Rodger & Sam Riviere
Calum Rodger is a poet working in performance, print, and digital media. Armed with a PhD in Scottish literature, he has reimagined 20th century poems as video games, and created crowdsourced poetry... [more]
Push the Boat Out: The Cat Prince
Embrace the cat life in this extra special event at Maison de Moggy Cat Cafe with The Cat Prince himself, prize-winning poet Michael Pedersen.The Cat Prince & Other Poems (Little Brown) is... [more]
Push The Boat Out: Poetry as Documentary, A Workshop inspired by the Arena film Hair
Inspired by the Arena film, Hair, this workshop will explore how our individual poetic voices can come together to create a collective cultural memory which acts as an alternative history and... [more]
Push The Boat Out: Joelle Taylor and the Forward Prize
Chaired by Mónica Parle, Co-Executive Director of the Forward Prize, performance poet and Forward judge Joelle Taylor will share her work alongside insights into the art of delivering captivating... [more]