Peter McCarey

Peter McCarey

Peter McCarey (Glasgow/Geneva) has just completed Disturbing Machiavelli, a dialogue with the man himself.

His Syllabary has been displayed and performed in galleries and at events from Montreal to Macao. Parts of the work have been published in various languages.

McCarey has worked with artists and experts on various ploys. He was a founding member of Makaronic.ch, which runs the  annual Poésies en Mouvement event in Geneva.

Some books

Orasho (Red Squirrel Press, 2022), on the good of poetry              

Oggetti transizionali (Milano, Edizioni della Galleria l’Affiche, 2022), exhibition catalogue

De l’oubli (Lausanne, L’ours blanc, 2019), on the defence of poetry

Collected Contraptions (Manchester, Carcanet Press, 2012), collected early verse.

Hugh MacDiarmid and the Russians (Edinburgh, Scottish Academic Press, 1987)

Other collaborations

With Jacques Demierre and Vincent Barras, Interpreting BarDem Interpreting (2015) http://www.jacquesdemierre.com/interpretingbard.html

With Olga Kokcharova, a Syllabary for sixty voices www.scran.ch

With Edwin Morgan and Alan Riach, Mayakovsky in translation (Tron Theatre, Glasgow).

Books