| Poets & musicians archive | Venue | News | ||||||
| date | guest poet | featured poet | Shore Poet | Music | ||||
| August 2nd | Brian & Ros meet at reading in Shore Gallery: Idea of Shore Poets formed | |||||||
| Shore Gallery, Leith | ||||||||
| 1991-1992 | ||||||||
| Oct 6th | Ken Nelson | Ros Brackenbury | Brian Johnstone | John Young | ||||
| Nov 3rd | Elizabeth Burns | Andrew Greig | Ros Brackenbury & Brian Johnstone | Jan Wightman | ||||
| Dec 1st | Jim Glen | Jim Crumley | Mark Ogle | ? | ||||
| Feb 2nd | Dante Jack Clegg | Kathleen Jamie | Brian Johnstone | Norman Chalmers | ||||
| March 1st | James P Spence | Gordon Meade | Ros Brackenbury | Jan Wightman & Anne Ward | ||||
| Mark joined | ||||||||
| April 5th | Anna Crowe | Angela McSeveney | Ros Brackenbury | Hugh Dailly | ||||
| April 22nd | Shore Poets meet with Andrew Brown of 369 Gallery. Move to 369 gallery agreed | |||||||
| May 3rd | Open Reading: Ian McDonough, Dougie Mackenzie etc. | Brian Johnstone, Ros Brackenbury | Hugh Dailly | 369 Gallery | ||||
| June 7th | Mark Ogle | Robert Crawford | Brian Johnstone | Peter Thomas | ||||
| July 5th | Dougie McKenzie | |||||||
| 1992-1993 | ||||||||
| Aug 2nd | Deborah Moffat | Harvey Holton | Ian McDonough | Jim Glen | ||||
| Sept 6th | Donal McLaughlin | Hugh MacMillan | Mark Ogle | Sandy Semeonoff | ||||
| Oct 4th | Jim Glen | Norman MacCaig | Mark Ogle | Jan Wightman & Anne Ward | 1st anniversary | |||
| Nov 1st | Marianna Lines | Gordon Meade | Ros Brackenbury | Ali Semeonoff banjo duo | ||||
| Dec 6th | Nancy Somerville | ? | Brian Johnstone | Rosa Michaelson, Kathleen King & Anne Ward | ||||
| Feb 7th | Morelle Smith | Edwin Morgan | Mark Ogle | Hugh Dailly | ||||
| March 7th | D E Poole | Joy Hendry | Jim Glen | Jan Swanson duo | ||||
| April 4th | James P Spence | Janet Paisley | Dougie McKenzie | Mary McGookin | ||||
| May 2nd | Ian McDonough | Desmond Graham | Brian Johnstone | Julian & Sharon Goodacre | ||||
| June 6th | (Alan Jackson cancelled) | Anna Crowe | Ros Brackenbury | Ian Stewart band | ||||
| July 4th | Wojtek Bochenek | Dante Jack Clegg | ? | ? | Tron Tavern | |||
| 1993-1994 | ||||||||
| Aug 11th | Brian Johnstone, Ros Brackenbury, Mark Ogle & Jim Glen | Jan & Anne | Shore Poets first out of town reading: Pittenweem Arts Festival | |||||
| Sept 26th | Tony MacManus | Hugh Ouston | Ian McDonough | Wendy Stewart | Events move to last Sunday in the month | |||
| Oct 31st | Christine De Luca ? | Ken? Christine, Jim G join (?) & Stewart becomes president | ||||||
| Nov 28th | Nancy Somerville | Liz Lochhead? | ||||||
| Jan 30th | Joy Pitman | Tom Pow | Brian Johnstone | Norman Chalmers & friends | Ros leaves for USA | |||
| Feb 27th | Ian Stewart | Kathleen Jamie | Mark Ogle | Sandy Semeonoff | ||||
| March 27th | Mike Dillon | Gordon Meade | Morelle Smith | ? | ||||
| April 24th | Ann Gwilt | Brian McCabe | Jim Glen | Tony MacManus | ||||
| May 29th | Donal McLaughlin | John Glenday | Ian McDonough | Wendy Stewart & Alan Jones | ||||
| June 26th | ? | Anne Macleod? | ? | |||||
| 1994-1995 | ||||||||
| Oct 9th | Various poets included | Launch of The Golden Goose Hour -- first Shore Poets anthology | ||||||
| Oct 30th | Stewart A Paterson | Robert Crawford | Christine De Luca | Julian & Sharon Goodacre | ||||
| Nov 27th | Shampa Ray | Elizabeth Burns | Ken Cockburn | Also Andrew Hennesey reading | ||||
| Dec 10th | Brian Johnstone, Mark Ogle & Ian McDonough | Shore Poets second out of town reading at Tulloch Castle, Dingwall | ||||||
| Jan 29th | Dingwall poets | Tom Bryan | Gerry Cambridge Blues Duo | |||||
| Jan 31st | Brian Johnstone, Christine De Luca & Ian McDonough | Hugh & friends | Shore Poets out of town reading at The Clutha Vaults, Glasgow | |||||
| Feb 26th | Hugh McMillan | Roddy Lumsden | Christine De Luca | Shirley Bennet & Stewart McLaren | ||||
| Mar 26th | Wojtek Bochenek | Harvey Holton | ? | Shore Thing | ||||
| Apr 30th | Matthew Hollis | Tom Pow (AG cancelled?) | Ian McDonough | ? | Part of Edin Spring Fling programme | |||
| May 28th | Ken Nelson | Tessa Ransford | ? | ? | ||||
| June 18th | Ian McDonough? Christine De Luca | Hugh | Shore Poets out of town reading The New Bazaar, Dumfries | |||||
| July 23th | Iain Crichton Smith, WNHerbert, Valerie Gillies, Anne Frater | Wendy Stewart, Christine Kydd | Jacobite night at Café Royal | The Ghost in the Snow' Commission | ||||
| 1995-1996 | ||||||||
| Aug 11th | Christine De Luca & Brian Johnstone | Hugh Dailly | SP at Pittenweem Arts Festival Cave Readings | |||||
| Aug 12th | Mark Ogle & Brian Johnstone | ? | SP at Pittenweem Arts Festival Cave Readings | |||||
| Aug 13th | Ken Cockburn & Brian Johnstone | ? | SP at Pittenweem Arts Festival Cave Readings | |||||
| Sept 24th | Sean Belcher | Angus McNichol (sp?) | Jim Glen | Norman Chalmers | Nancy Somerville joins | |||
| Oct 29th | Gerry Cambridge, Jenni Daiches + ? | Scottish Cultural Press focus event | Special Event | |||||
| Nov | Cancelled due to lack of venue | |||||||
| Jan (28) | Brent Hodgson | Andrew Greig | Ian McDonough | Wendy Stewart | Fruitmarket Gallery | |||
| Feb 25th | Gael Turnbull | Donny O'Rourke | Ken Cockburn | Shanks & Russell | ||||
| Mar (31) | Jim C Wilson | Stewart Conn | Christine De Luca | Peter Thomas | ||||
| Apr (28) | John Purser | Gillian Ferguson | Shaun Belcher | Auld Alliance | ||||
| May 2nd | Special event | Tom McGrath (at the Filmhouse) 'Birdcalls' Publication | Pub 'Birdcalls' ed Ken | Special event at the Filmhouse | ||||
| May (26) | Edin Univ Poetry Society guests | Valerie Gillies | None | Julian & Sharon Goodacre, Jon Redpath | ||||
| June (30) | Sandy Craigie | John Burnside | Mark Ogle | Three-piece suite | ||||
| 1996-1997 | ||||||||
| Aug (9) | SP Grouse on the Fringe | Christine | Mark Ogle | Auld Alliance | ||||
| Aug (15) | SP Grouse on the Fringe | Tom Pow | Brian Johnstone | Wendy S & Alan James | ||||
| Aug (22) | SP Grouse on the Fringe | Stewart | Ian McDonough | Masatero Tembo & Raymond Kasawaya | ||||
| Aug (29) | SP Grouse on the Fringe | Andrew Greig | Ken Cockburn | Three-piece suite | ||||
| Sept (29) | Take Five event (All day-5th birthday) | Kathleen Jamie, Ros Brackenbury, Wojtek Bochenek, Gael Turnbull, Brian Johnstone | Tony McManus, Wendy S, Aaron J & Tim o'L, Shore Thing | All read from favourite dead poet. Competition winners ' pamphlet published on the day, edited by Ken Cockburn | ||||
| Oct (27) | Colin Will | Brian McCabe | Christine De Luca | Arthur Timperly | ||||
| Nov (24) | Maureen Sangster | Edwin Morgan | Nancy Somerville | Shanks & Russell | ||||
| Dec (2) | James Thin, George Street | Launch of 'The Ice Horses', second Shore Poets anthology | ||||||
| Jan 22nd | Brian Johnstone & Stewart Conn | Wendy S | SP at Glasgow Concert Hall | Celtic Connections | ||||
| Jan (26) | Anne Shivas | Ron Butlin | Ian McDonough | The Tartan Gussets | ||||
| Feb (23) | David Berry | Robert Alan Jamieson | Morelle Smith | Tim o'Leary & Aaron Jones | ||||
| Mar (30) | Gavin Jones | Janet Paisley | Ken Cockburn | Eileen Penman | ||||
| Apr (27) | Allan Crosbie | Douglas Lipton | Nancy Somerville | Shabrean | ||||
| May (25) | Martin Bates | Alison Prince | Stewart Conn | Mae Shaw | ||||
| June (29) | Anna Crowe | Alan Spence (& Gus Ferguson) | Jim Glen | Auld Alliance | ||||
| 1997-1998 | ||||||||
| Aug (20) | Brian Johnstone, Christine De Luca, Ken Cockburn, Mark Ogle, Nancy Somerville, Gavin Jones | Hugh Dailly & Jim Glen | Edinburgh International Book Festival event | |||||
| Sept (28) | D E Poole | Helen Lamb | Mark Ogle | Stuart Hanratty | ||||
| Oct (26) | Jenni Daiches | Christopher Whyte | Christine De Luca | The Birlin Ensemble | ||||
| Nov (30) | Mike Dillon | Kate Clanchy | Brian Johnstone | Shirley Bennett, Stewart McLaren & Alec Calder | ||||
| Jan (25) | Pat Fox | George Bruce | Ian McDonough | Stairheid Gossip | ||||
| Feb (22) | Colin Donati | Ellie McDonald | Ken Cockburn | Hugh Dailly | ||||
| Mar (22) | French night | Jean Ristat & Michel Houellebecq (Gavin Bowd & Graham Dunstan Martin) | Auld Alliance | |||||
| Apr (26) | Neil Mochrie | Roddy Lumsden | Nancy Somerville | Northcott, Craddon & Astor | ||||
| May (31) | Maureen McNaughton | Basil du Toit | Mark Ogle | Mae Shaw | ||||
| June (28) | Open night | Jim Glen | The Tartan Gussets | |||||
| 1998-1999 | ||||||||
| Aug (25) | 2nd Book Festival event | Ken Cockburn, Ian McDonough, Christine De Luca, Nancy Somerville | Hugh Dailly & Jim Glen, Wendy Stewart & Brian | |||||
| Aug (30) | Kirkcudbright Arts Festival | Ian McDonough, Ken Cockburn, Nancy Somerville | ||||||
| Sept (27) | John Hudson, Elspeth Brown, Chrys Salt, (Donald Adamson?) | Douglas Lipton + Solway poets | (Reciprocal visit to Kirkcudbright , Arts Festival, 30th Aug) | |||||
| Oct (25) | Angus McMillan | James Aitchison | Christine De Luca | Hugh Dailly & Jim Glen | Canons' Gait | |||
| Nov (29) | Brendan Moohan | John Glenday | Brian Johnstone | Arthur Timperley | Launch of website (Peter) | |||
| Jan (31) | Melissa Ross | Roddy Lumsden | Ian McDonough | Tony McManus | ||||
| Feb (28) | Dennis O'Donnell | Pam Wilkie | Ken Cockburn | Mary McGookin | Mark Ogle died 27/2 | |||
| Mar (28) | Ilyse Kusnetz | WN Herbert | readings from Mark Ogle's work | Òrain | ||||
| Apr (25) | Manus McGeechan | Tracey Herd | Stewart Conn | Mae Shaw & Tony Mitchell | ||||
| May (30) | Lydia Robb | Tom Leonard | Brian Johnstone | Kibushla | ||||
| June (27) | Knotbrook Taylor | Tessa Ransford | Nancy Somerville | Ian Carleton & Bob McLaren | ||||
| 1999-2000 | ||||||||
| Sept | Andrew Forster | Valerie Thornton | Jim Glen | Christine Kydd | ||||
| Oct | Willie Hershaw | Derick Thomson | Christine De Luca | Alison Loudon/Sandy Semeonoff | ||||
| Nov | Sheila Templeton | Don Paterson | Ian McDonough | Catmelodeon | ||||
| Jan | Paula Jennings | Dilys Rose | Nancy Somerville | Lorraine Jordan & Kate Bevan Baker | ||||
| Feb | Julia Prescott | Gerry Cambridge | Ken Cockburn | Tony McManus | ||||
| Mar | Lesley Harrison | Kevin MacNeil | Mark's collection | Ian Carelton/Bob McLaren | ||||
| Apr | Open mike | Gael Turnbull | open mike | Birlinn | ||||
| May | Christine Strikland | Matthew Fitt | Allan Crosbie | Wendy Wetherby | ||||
| June | Bashabi Fraser | Allison Funk | Brian Johnstone | Crowdie House | Pub of Mark Ogle: 'A Memory of Fields' ed Brian J & Hugh | |||
| 2000-2001 | ||||||||
| Sept | Elspeth Murray | Frank Kuppner | Jim Glen | Mae Shaw and Tony Mitchell | ||||
| Oct (29) | Andrew Neilson | Diana Hendry | Allan Crosbie | Three-piece Suite | ||||
| Nov (26) | Andy Philip | Jim McGonigal | Brian Johnstone | Lynn o'Hare, Jayne Wilding, Mike McGuinness | ||||
| Jan | John Murray | Meg Bateman | Gael Turnbull | Ken Kelly | ||||
| Feb (25) | Irfan Merchant | Richard Price | Christine De Luca | Arthur Timperley | ||||
| Mar (25) | Alan Gay | Alan Riach | Nancy Somerville | Eileen Penman | ||||
| Apr (29) | Open Night | Nil | Ken Cockburn | Shore Thing | ||||
| May (27) | Nalini Paul | Sandy Hutchison | Stewart Conn | Colin Donati | ||||
| June (24) | David Hopkins | Gerry Loose | Ian McDonough | Stan & Alison Reeves | ||||
| 2001-2002 | ||||||||
| August (Sat 25) | Allan Crosbie, Ian McDonough, Nancy Somerville, Gael Turnbull | Hugh Dailly & Jim Glen | 10th Anniversary event at Edinburgh Book Festival | |||||
| Oct (05) | Shore Poets at StAnza | Ken Cockburn, Nancy Somerville, Jim Glen | Hugh Dailly & Jim Glen | |||||
| Oct (07) | SPL | Book launch: 'Such Strange Joy', third Shore Poets anthology | ||||||
| Oct (28) | Andy McNeill | Angus Peter Campbell | Allan Crosbie | Sarah Northcott & Matt Smith | SPL | Canons' Gait flood | ||
| Nov (25) | Colin Donati | Gerrie Fellows | Paula Jennings | Ben Young | ||||
| Jan (27) | Helena Nelson | Vicki Feaver | Ken Cockburn | Mae Shaw and Tony Mitchell | ||||
| Feb (24) | Jen Hatfield | Anne Macleod | Brian Johnstone | Frantically Keen | Ryries Bar | |||
| Mar (31) | Jayne Wilding | Eleanor Brown | Jim Glen | Colin Donati | ||||
| Apr (28) | Alice Mitchell | Robin Robertson | Christine De Luca | Mary McGookin | ||||
| May (26) | (Kettilonia night) | Angus Calder & James Robertson | Ian McDonough | Stan & Alison Reeves | ||||
| June (30) | Kevin Cadwallender | David Kinloch | Gael Turnbull | Richard Dawson | ||||
| 2002-2003 | ||||||||
| Sept (29) | Lyn Moir | Alastair Reid | Stewart Conn | The Jean Watt Band | Canons' Gait | |||
| Oct (27) | Laurna Robertson | Suhayl Saadi | Andrew Philip | Colin Donati | ||||
| Nov (24) | Open night | Allan Crosbie | Ben Young | |||||
| Jan (26) | Douglas Dunn | Diana Hendry | Bob McLaren & Ruari Wilson | |||||
| Feb (23) | Janet Paisley | Paula Jennings | Eileen Penman | |||||
| Mar (30) | Edinburgh Review Night | Paul Grattan, Angela McSeveney | Brian Johnstone | Stan & Alison Reeves | ||||
| Apr (20) | Galoshen Event (Ceilidh Culture) | Gael Turnbull and Jim C Wilson | Dave Francis & Mairi Campbell | |||||
| Apr (27) | Chris Powici | Kathleen Jamie | Christine De Luca | Stan & Alison Reeves | ||||
| May (25) | Dawn Wood | Bill Duncan | Nancy Somerville | Gifford Lind | ||||
| June (29) | Houra Qadir | George Gunn | Ian McDonough | Sarah Northcott & Matt Smith | ||||
| 2003-2004 | (follow the link) | |||||||
| 2004-2005 | (follow the link) | |||||||
| 2005-2006 | (follow the link) | |||||||
| 2006-2007 | (follow the link) | |||||||