The Eejit Pit

Love, loss and holding the world to rights in some Edinburgh bar-shacks. The Eejit Pit addresses 21st century love, intimacy and stability with humour, commentary and innovative word-play. Includes the 2012 BBC Slam winning poem “The Things You Leave Behind” and “Edinburgh”, as heard on Channel 4 news and in the (g)Host City Festival, 2011.”

ISBN: 978-0-9576363-1-6

Reviews for The Eejit Pit

Elizabeth Rimmer, The Scottish Review of Books:
“[Jenny Lindsay is] justly renowned as a virtuoso performance poet. […] The Eejit Pit is a snapshot of an accomplished performer, but also a work of art in its own right.”

Sally Evans, Poetry Scotland Reviews:
“[These are] poems of confidence and substance. She can be expansive or minimal, cheerful and funny, or less cheerful but still funny.”

Andrew Sclater, Sphinx: all about poetry pamphlets:
“The Eejit Pit has a vigorous feel to it, and a straight joy in language as reflected in the pamphlet’s title poem, made from a Scots fridge magnet poem kit.”

Harry Giles, Sidekick Books:
“Whether it’s in sarcastically loving odes like Edinburgh or bitter zeitgeist narratives like Tick, the voice that sounds clearly is of 21st century anger, scunnered by self-consciousness and lightened by cautious hope. […] The Eejit Pit is a rich and complex way marker of our journey through […] the continuing debates between performance poets and page poets.”

The poems:

Edinburgh
The Things You Leave Behind
Intimacy
Taking Back the Night
I Promise I Will Not Fall in Love With You
Tick
Mirrors
The Truth
The Eejit Pit

Jenny Lindsay

Jenny regularly performs all over Scotland and beyond with a blend of dry humour, social-commentary and story-telling. She has been variously described as “a distinctive voice, full of fire and passion,” (Scottish Review of Books), as writing “poems of confidence and substance,” (Poetry Scotland) and as “full of hope, humanity and humour.” (Andrew Eaton-Lewis,The Scotsman). She was the ‘Rally’ of acclaimed literary cabaret Rally & Broad (2012 – 2016) and was the BBC Slam Champion in 2012. Her 2015 debut solo show Ire & Salt which explored power, artistic autonomy and empowerment, received a 4-star review from The Scotsman, with Gutter Magazine saying “Lindsay’s approach is defiant – belligerent even – taking to the stage as if staging a coup…Her coup is real: for a politically-rooted self-expression that many would doubtless prefer mute.” Her new spoken word project ‘Flint & Pitch Productions’ launches in August 2016.

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