Wordplay 2010, Shetland’s 9th annual Book Festival will be held on Saturday 4th and Sunday 5th of September at Islesburgh Community Centre. The festival will contain a wide variety of events for people of all ages. Guests will include best selling writer and award winning broadcaster, Simon King, Costa Prize winning poet Christopher Reid and…
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Wordplay 2009 – Hit Show Comes to Book Festival
Posted by Emily Sharp on September 1st, 2009 No CommentsWordplay 2009,… Shetland Arts annual book festival will feature two performances of the acclaimed puppet show, The Man Who Planted Trees.
The hit show will be performed in Islesburgh Community Centre on both days of the festival.
The Edinburgh based Puppet State Theatre Company are on their first visit to Shetland, just another stop on
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Posted by Emily Sharp on August 24th, 2009 No CommentsWordplay 2009…, Shetland Arts’ book festival, will feature a special reading in Room 12, Islesburgh Community Centre at 10.30am on Saturday 5th September, of a work in progress for a fascinating publication planned by local imprint, Hansel Cooperative Press.
Prize winning writer and sculptor, John Cumming, the initial instigator of the project said, “Fisherman’s
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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