Author Rodge Glass - whose 2008 biography of Alasdair Gray, A Secretary's Biography, won a Somerset Maugham Award - is the latest writer to appear in the spring series of Literary Lunchtimes today at Bar Gandolfi in Glasgow's Merchant City.
Currently Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Edge Hill University, Lancashire, Glass is a former Keith Wright Literary Fellow who taught creative writing at Strathclyde for several years.
Today's lunchtime event, which begins at 1pm, includes a reading and informal chat. Irish poet Alan Gillis will feature in the Literary Lunchtime slot on March 11, with current Keith Wright Literary Fellow Christopher Agee following on March 25.
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The Cardy Net House in Lower Largo, Fife is the setting for a world première and album launch later today. Saxophonist Richard Ingham received a grant in 2014 from Creative Scotland to commission, record and perform eight new pieces for saxophone to celebrate the bicentenary of the instrument's inventor, Adolphe Sax.
The new works have been composed by musicians from contemporary classical, traditional and jazz backgrounds and tonight's concert features Ingham with his fellow composers, Sally Beamish (piano), Mary Ann Kennedy (voice), Martin Kershaw (saxophone), Richard Michael (piano), Pete Stollery (digital sound), James Ross (piano) and Fraser Burke (synthesiser) plus Stuart Semple (percussion) who all appear on the album. The concert begins at 7:30pm.
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