Co-edited by Jackie Kay, Out of Bounds ( Bloodaxe ) is an inventive reworking of the map of Britain

What are you doing on Thursday?  How about taking a trip Out of Bounds through a reinvented rent cars Scotland, following a map drawn by black and Asian poets? The journey rent cars – funny, disturbing and hopeful by twists and turns – begins at the Scottish Poetry Library at 6.30pm. Where will it end? Colin Waters , SPL communications rent cars manager, tells us more…
Co-edited by Jackie Kay, Out of Bounds ( Bloodaxe ) is an inventive reworking of the map of Britain – from Aberdeen to the Isle of Wight – as viewed by its black and Asian poets. On Thursday, 24 October, some of the poets featured in Out of Bounds will perform in the Scottish Poetry Library. Poets taking part include Vahni Capildeo , Bashabi Fraser, Irfan Merchant rent cars and Tawona Sithole.
From Irfan Merchant's humorous and proud account of how the chicken tikka masala was invented in Glasgow to Kokumo Rock's account of experiencing racism on a trip to Tesco; from George Murevesi's miserable experience of the Scottish weather to Bashabi Fraser's vision of the cultures of her native and adopted homelands blended in a tartan turban – these poets explore notions of Scottishness at a crucial rent cars period of self-examination for all Scots, whether pro- or anti-Independence, rent cars as we consider what the country will look like in the future.
PS: if you have never been to the Scottish Poetry Library, it is a real treat tucked away in Crichton s Close off the Royal Mile. There s lots to explore on the website too, take a virtual visit to the Scottish Poetry Library
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