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The Scots poet, Donny O’Rourke has taken an Exchange Residency in the Art and Design Centre in Bern, Switzerland. He will be there until September. After reading at the Ullapool Festival, he will be reading his verse, fostering projects and enjoying the ambience of the Pleiade of current Scottish Poets in Switzerland. (Peter Mc Carey, Donal Mc Loughlan, Duncan Mc Gibbon, Donny O’Rourke). Donny O’Rourke was born in Port Glasgow, studied at Glasgow University, worked in Television and as creative Writing Fellow at Glasgow and Strathclyde. His writings include Second Cities, Modern Music, The Waistband and other poems (Polygon, 1997) and On a Roll: a Jena notebook (Mariscat, 2001), and with Richard Price he published a pamphlet of versions of modern French lyrics, Eftirs/Afters (Au Quai, 1996). He has spent some time in Nuremberg, having received the Hermann Kesten Stipendium, and a dual language collection of poems resulting from his time there was published in 2005, Aus dem Wartesaal der Poesie/From Poetry’s Waiting Room (Spätlese Verlag, Nürnberg). he was editor of The Dream State: The New Scottish Poets (1994), and is co-editor of New Writing Scotland.

See the PROGR artist in residence blog to follow Donny’s progress in Bern.