A Portobello Poetry Walk with Eleanor Rees
As part of 'Push the Boat Out Poetry Festival'
As this is a Push the Boat Out Festival event, tickets are exclusively available from the Push the Boat Out website. For more information, visit their website via the link below.
Tickets available via the Push the Boat Out Festival website.
Please note that this event takes place on Portobello Beach, but attendees will be meeting at the bookshop.
Eleanor Rees’ writing draws on liminal places and edgelands – so who better to take us on a poetry walk along the shoreline at Portobello. Join us for a short reading here in The Portobello Bookshop to hear from Eleanor’s Portents and Portals: New & Selected Poems (Guillemot Press, 2024). Spanning three decades, five collections and several pamphlets, the poems in it explore place, ritual and the in-between. After that we’ll be going for a gentle walk along Portobello’s promenade, interspersed with readings and discussion, before returning to the bookshop for a signing.
Please meet for this walk at The Portobello Bookshop on Portobello High Street. The event will mainly take place outside, so please dress for all weather conditions.
Push the Boat Out Festival will be taking place from Friday 12th to Sunday 15th November 2026.
Participants:
Eleanor Rees Author
Eleanor Rees is the author of Andraste’s Hair (Salt, 2007), shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and the Glen Dimplex New Writers’ Awards, Eliza and the Bear (Salt, 2009), Blood Child (Liverpool University Press/Pavilion, 2015) and a long pamphlet Riverine (Gatehouse Press, 2015). Eleanor received a Northern Writers’ Award for Poetry 2018. Eleanor is Lecturer in Creative Writing at Liverpool Hope University and lives in Liverpool. www.eleanorrees.info
The venue
The Portobello Bookshop
46 Portobello High Street
Edinburgh
EH15 1DA
Telephone: 0131 629 6756
Website: www.theportobellobookshop.com
Wheelchair Access
We have a ramp at the front of the shop which has a ratio of 1:10 and loading capacity of 300kg, and so should be able to be used by most wheelchair users or those with mobility vehicles. The front doors are fully automated. Our shop interior is designed to allow access throughout for wheelchair users and prams, though please note there is only 700mm wide clearance to access the staff toilet.
Sound
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