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 CommentsJen 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 Shetland Arts on June 10th, 2009 Comments OffFilms @ The Garrison
Thursday 11th to Sunday 14th March – The Garrison Theatre, Lerwick. March films at The Garrison are – The Princess and the Frog is a 2009 American animated family film loosely based on E. D. Baker’s novel The Frog Princess, which was in turn inspired by the Grimm brothers’ fairy tale “The…
Shetland’s eighth annual book festival says hello…
Posted by Donald Anderson on May 27th, 2009 No CommentsPlans for Wordplay 2009 are now well under way as this year’s team of curators, each a volunteer, really get to grips with the job in hand. Already confirmed are some really great guests: for more detail, watch this space!
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