Borders Poets In Conversation

Name: Borders Poets In Conversation
Start: 2026-06-11T17:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-06-11T18:00:00+01:00
Location: Tweed Marquee

Bridget Khursheed and Craig Aitchison discuss environment, family and language, showing how Border poetry reaches beyond local to universal themes.

Saturday, 13 June 2026

7:15pm ‐ 8:15pm

Tweed Marquee
Harmony Garden and Orchard, St Mary's Road, Melrose, TD6 9LJ

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Information

Bridget Khursheed is a novelist and poet whose most recent poetry collection Exact Colour of Snow was long listed for The Saltires: Scotland’s National Book Awards poetry award. Craig Aitchison is an award-winning poet who has just released a collection of poetry in Scots, Flichter which James Robertson has praised as “brave, vulnerable, questioning and vibrant”. Together, they will discuss themes of environment, family and language itself, demonstrating how poetry rooted in the Borders reaches far beyond the local to illuminate the universal. Expect wit, humour and a delight in the spoken word from these two talented poets.