Ullapool Book Festival set to open a new chapter in lockdown
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A VIRTUAL event today will remind people what they are missing with the cancellation of this year’s Ullapool Book Festival.
Words from the West will be live on the book festival’s Facebook from 7.30pm, giving a live two-hour taster of “what might have been”.
Organisers say: “We know it will not be the same as being here at the real thing. There will be no craic, camaraderie or cake – but there will be great writers, poets and music. We hope it will tide you over until May 2021.”
Three new poems will be read on the night by the poets who created them – George Gunn, Jim Carruth and Donald S Murray.
There will also be a session with the festival’s honorary president Chris Dolan, whose new book Everything Passes, Everything Remains: Freewheeling Through Spain, Song and Memory is a “kind of travelogue of 45 years’ obsession with Spain, pedalling through some lesser-known parts of the country”.
Donald S Murray will speak live from his home in Shetland about his novel As the Women Lay Dreaming and there will also be performances from young traditional musicians Joseph Peach, Achiltibue and Charlie Grey, Fort Augustus
For more information visit Facebook/ullapoolbookfestival
How to join in
* On the Ullapool Book Festival Facebook page
* On YouTube https://youtu.be/iiNESrjJDE4
* On a smart TV go to YouTube and search Words from the West
Programme
Welcome.
George Gunn reads his new poem, Lockdown.
Kerry Hudson chaired by Ruth Wishart. Kerry’s latest book and memoir Lowborn takes her back to the towns of her childhood as she investigates her own past and what it means to be poor in Britain today.
Charlie Grey and Joseph Peach share two tracks from their album Waves Rise from Quiet Water.
Donald S Murray reads his new poem, Shetland 14 April 2020.
Chris Dolan in conversation with Moira Leven. Chris ’s new book Everything Passes, Everything Remains – Freewheeling through Spain, Song and Memory, due to be published in the autumn, is a travelogue of 45 years’ obsession with Spain, pedalling through some less well known parts of that country.
Jim Carruth reads his new poem, the long bench.
Donald S Murray chaired by Mark Wringe. Donald’s book, As The Women Lay Dreaming, was inspired by the effects of the Iolaire disaster on January 1, 1919.
With participants working with the technology they have available at home, the programme will be a mix of audio and film.
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