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Tuesday 10th November will see the launch of a poetry anthology published in memory of, and in tribute to, the late Adrian Mitchell aka the Shadow Poet Laureate, who died in December 2008. The event will take place in Shetland Library and will begin at 7.30pm. An invitation is extended to all who…
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Adrian: Scotland Remembers Adrian Mitchell – Book launch
Posted by Mary Smith on November 3rd, 2009 No CommentsWriter John Hudson’s November Residency in Shetland
Posted by Donald Anderson on October 22nd, 2009 No CommentsNovember 1st will see the arrival in Shetland, of award winning writer, editor and film-maker, John Hudson who will take up a month long Creative Writing Residency in the Booth in Scalloway.
John Hudson has been working as a freelance writer since 1980; he is extra mural lecturer in English for the University of Glasgow…
Wordplay 2009 – Welcome to the book zone
Posted by Mary Smith on August 5th, 2009 No CommentsPlans 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…
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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