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DisComBoBuLatE has been rocked recently by the sacking of host Ian Macpherson for certain comments relating to women in poetry. Mobile phone footage

'Wouldn't know yer sonnet from yer actual 'aiku, Trev.'
'Poetry? Stick to shopping lists, darlin'.'

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Macpherson was also witnessed cocking his trilby at a jaunty angle in the direction of Stirling Makar Magi Gibson. 'I knew exactly what he was thinking,' retorted a regal Ms. Gibson, 'and it had very little to do with my blank verse.'

We at DisComBoBuLatE regard such comments and cocking as totally unacceptable, particularly as poetry tries to reach out to a family audience.

Macpherson has been permanently replaced by Ian Macpherson lookalike Ian Macpherson. He will be joined by Stirling Makar Magi Gibson, poet Billy Letford, polymath Alan Bissett, wordophile RJ Ritchie and Trev at

The Attic @The Tolbooth, Stirling. Friday Feb 11, 2011. 8-10pm


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