Our next Mirrorball will have readings from headline poet is Todd Turner  alongside Ryan Van Winkle, Alexandra Corrin-Tachibana, and Carol McKay. The event will be on Thursday 29th October 2026 at 7pm, at Waterstones, Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow (please ensure you arrive before 7pm to guarantee entry), the venue is wheelchair accessible.

All Mirrorball events are free to members, members also have Zoom access if unable to attend in-person. A year’s membership is only £25 for at least 6 events (pay-what-you-can rate also available)- see joining details here. Guests are also encouraged to come along on and make a one-off donation on the night.

Todd Turner is a multi-award-winning Australian poet and goldsmith based in Sydney. He is the author of the collections Woodsmoke and Thorn, and was awarded the Jean Cecily Drake-Brockman Poetry Prize. His work has been highly commended and shortlisted for several of Australia’s most prestigious honours, including the Mary Gilmore Prize, the Anne Elder Award, the Blake Poetry Prize, and the Newcastle Poetry Prize.  His poetry is published widely in major literary journals including Meanjin, and Southword, with a poem appearing in an upcoming issue of Poetry London. His third collection, Breathwork, is forthcoming in 2026. Informed by a rural background, his work often explores the intersection between language and the physical world, a perspective shared by his professional practice as a master goldsmith.

Ryan Van Winkle is a poet and producer based in Edinburgh. His third poetry collection, Get Closer, was released in 2026 and is longlisted for the Saltire Scottish Poetry Book of the Year. His second book, The Good Dark, won the Saltire Society’s 2015 Poetry Book of the Year award. His poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Modern Poetry in Translation and New Writing Scotland.    

Alexandra Corrin-Tachibana’s debut collection, Sing me down from the dark (Salt, 2022) is now in its 5th issue. She worked in higher education for 23 years in Japan and the UK and is now a freelance creative writing teacher, mentor and reviewer. Alexandra holds master’s degrees in Writing Poetry and in Japanese Language. She has taught sell-out workshops for the likes of The Poetry Business, The Poetry School, and The Writing School. Her poems have appeared in: Magma; The Pomegranate London; The Waxed Lemon; Ink, Sweat and Tears; Dust; haikuKATHA; and Obsessed with Pipework. She has been shortlisted for the Artemesia and Buzzwords poetry prizes, and twice shortlisted for Verve’s Poem of The Month competition. Her second collection, Skinship, came out with Salt in 2026.    

Carol McKay’s prize-winning short stories and poems are widely published in anthologies and magazines such as New Writing Scotland, Poetry Scotland, Gutter, Causeway/Cabhsair, Pushing Out the Boat, and Mslexia. Her pamphlet Reading the Landscape was published by Hedgehog Press in 2022. The Scottish Poetry Library named ‘Ceilidh’ from that collection one of the twenty Best Scottish Poems in English that year. Hedgehog published None of This Makes Any Sense – a micro-pamphlet collaboration with partner Keith McKay – in 2024. Carol won the Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship in 2010 and taught creative writing through The Open University between 2004 and 2018. Her latest poetry collection One Last Tango was published this year by Seahorse Publications.