Plans for this year’s book festival are well under way, with a variety of writers and artists set to visit Shetland for Wordplay 2009, Shetland Arts’ 8th annual book festival which will be held in Islesburgh Community Centre on the 5th and 6th of September.
One writer who will need very little introduction is Louis…
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Wordplay 2009 – Welcome to the book zone
Posted by Mary Smith on August 5th, 2009 No CommentsCreative Connections 2009
Posted by Bryan Peterson on July 28th, 2009 No CommentsMedia release:
Shetland Arts’ Creative Connections… is a marathon, seven-day and night festival, celebrating the contemporary creative culture of Shetland, incorporating four summer schools, cultural and creative visits across the islands, showcase concerts and dances, a specially curated exhibition and an artist residency. This event is part of Scotland’s Year of Homecoming and takes place
Jen Hadfield on film
Posted by Mary Smith on July 24th, 2009 No CommentsJen Hadfield won the 2008 T.S. Eliot Prize with her second collection, NIGH-NO-PLACE. In this short video she reads four poems from the book, beginning with the title-poem ‘Nigh-No-Place’, followed by ‘In the same way’, ‘Daed-traa’, and then ‘Paternoster’, the Lord’s Prayer uttered by a draught-horse. The film shows excerpts from her Wordsworth Trust reading…
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Posted by Donald Anderson on July 2nd, 2009 No CommentsThursday 2nd July. Jen Hadfield is to appear this evening at the Scottish Poetry Library, in Edinburgh. The TS Eliot prize winner, who lives and works in Shetland – when she is not away sooth making an increasing amount of public appearances, performing her poetry and leading poetry writing workshops – is the Scottish Poetry…
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