Wanderlust Women is a collaborative project by three Scottish women who still ‘travel’ but now in the worlds of love, lust & loss, the personal and universal.
They consider those aspects of life, amongst others, that can feel like ‘extra baggage’. The three poets in this group have a lot in common. They’re gritty, tough, their observation is born of personal experience, not all of it pleasant. That is recommendation enough but there are many moments too of pure revelation.
Following the outstanding success of the book and tour ‘Wanderlust Women: Three Poets’ (2021/22), ‘Wanderlust Women: Extra Baggage’ was launched in Glasgow, in June 2023.
Wanderlust women is made up of Donna Campbell, Lesley Benzie and Linda Jackson. Unfortunately for unavoidable personal reasons Donna is not able to be with WW on this Australian tour, so our own Caz Masel is filling her spot.
BIOS
Lesley Benzie writes in Scots Doric and English, she has 2 poetry collections, Sewn Up and Fessen/Reared (Seahorse in 2020). That year she also received Highly Commended in the Federation of Writers Scotland and Runner-up in McCash Scots Poetry Competitions. In 2021 she was shortlisted in the Main and Scots categories of the Wigtown Poetry Prize. She is a contributor to the 2 collaborative collections, Wanderlust Women; 3 poets and Norlan Lichts (Rymour Books 2022) which was nominated for Book of the year in the Scots Language Awards, in which she is also nominated as the Writer of the Year.
Linda Jackson is the founding editor of Seahorse Publications, a polymath and the originator of a myriad of regular literary, arts and musical events in Glasgow and further afield. Her own work includes The Siren Awakes (2020), The Cabinet, Red Squirrel Press, 2021, and she has appeared in various anthologies. In early 2023, her poem about COPS 26 Film Noir at Kelvingrove won an award in Brighton's Flight of the Dragonfly. Her second poetry collection, also Red Squirrel is due out in 2023. The second memoir, Siren:Wild in Me will also be published in 2023. An academic in the past, her doctorate was a comparative study of Woolf and Nietzsche. She is a lecturer/writing tutor of many years, and is a lifelong singer/musician. www.lindajaxson.com
Accessibility: Wheelchair access to venue. Steps to stage.
Cost: Free