Shouting in the Tunnel with Ruth Aylett & Jim Monaghan | 12th March @ 6:30pm

Join us to celebrate the launch of Shouting in The Tunnel by Ruth Aylett

Shouting in the Tunnel is a collection of explicitly political poems, written to bring us together, to express our anger at poverty and injustice, and to inspire us to action.

These poems are offered to activists in the trade unions in their everyday struggle for better working conditions; to the anti-racist and anti-fascist movements; to the brave campaigners for action on climate change; to those who have put themselves on the line against the criminalising of Palestine Action; to the hundreds and thousands demonstrating and speaking out against the Gaza genocide; and to everyone struggling for a future free of the cruelty and oppression of capitalism.

Ruth Aylett’s poems are a rallying cry wrapped in tenderness — the kind that reminds you that politics matters, that poetry matters, above all, that people matter. This is poetry that laments the brutality of the past and the present, but sings of the solidarity that will lead us into the future. - Josie Long, comedian, actor and broadcaster

For me, from first-hand experience, as an injured striking miner in 1984/5, these lines from Orgreave: more resolute, are more relevant than ever – ‘That was their lesson, a baton on the head, but we became more resolute instead.’

Shouting in the Tunnel is a powerful collection of poems where brutality meets beauty. A clear message from the past to today’s crumbling, decadent empires. At times it is dark but with an underlying message that there is a future out there, built on humanity and solidarity. - Jim Monaghan, Glasgow poet and community activist

Ruth Aylett - lives and works in Edinburgh and is a poet and novelist as well as an expert in robotics and AI. Earlier poetry pamphlets include Pretty in Pink (4Word) and Queen of Infinite Space (Maytree) both published in 2021. Technology sometimes features in her poetry and in 2020 she read at the Berlin Haus für Poesie with a robot. Writing jointly with Greg Michaelson she is the author of cross-genre Scottish Fantasy/SF novels Equinox (2023) and Solstice (2025) both from Stairwell Books of York. In 2017 she was the winner of the Poets Meet Politics prize. For more see https://ruthaylett.org 

Ruth will be joined in conversation with Jim Monaghan. Jim is a veteran of Scotland's poetry and spoken word scene, performing live poetry for over 40 years. He lives in Govanhill, is one of the founders of The Govanhill International Festival and a Director of Romano Lav.

This event has been supported by the Govanhill Book Festival.

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