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This week’s Poetry Doubles welcomed prize-winning poet Jen Hadfield and the increasingly well-known Vivien Jones. Vivien, who lives in Powfoot, has just become a winner in the Sedburgh Short Stories competition, and is a performer in Making Waves with Jackie Galley.

Another full auditorium at the Robert Burns Centre Film Theatre greeted the second session of Poetry Doubles this week. Fronting the evening was Tom Leonard, a hugely influential poet and writer whose work includes Intimate Voices: Poems 1965-83, access to the silence: poems and posters 1984-2004 and a pamphlet, Being A Human Being, 2006. He was ably supported by Dumfries & Galloway’s Angus Macmillan, who read in the very first Poetry Doubles event 3 years ago.