Festival of New Writing in Aberdeen and North-East Scotland
1–30 September 2012
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Doric Fly Cup
Margaret Grant and Phyllis Goodall
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Saturday 1 September 2012
10am
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12 noon
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Huntly Area Cancer Support Centre, Huntly
[Map]
Admission free
Enjoy a fly cup and a piece while local Doric poets Margaret Grant and Phyllis Goodall
read some of their often hilarious poems. All profits to the charity.
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Margaret Grant (nee McWilliam) was born in Kinnoir in 1938. A retired Law
Accountant, she attended Kinnoir School and The Gordon Schools, Huntly. She has
had two books of Doric verse published, Jist for a Lauch in 1999 and Anither
Keckle in 2003.
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Phyllis Goodall was born and brought up at the hill-farm of her great-grandmother
who was born in 1856, before the Education Act of 1872 banned the Scots language.
She says "I learned English my first day at school, bit I dinna use't a lot noo".
She has recently published There's Been Bonnie Days: a Doric deem's views on things
in general.
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North East Writers and its partner organisations undertake to produce
all events in the New Words festival as advertised, but we can accept no liability
for details that are changed due to circumstances beyond our control.
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Week 1
Saturday 1 September
10am
Huntly Area Cancer Support Centre, Huntly
Margaret Grant and Phyllis Goodall
Saturday 1 September
11.30am
Brander Library, Huntly
Stories for children aged 8 upwards
Saturday 1 September
12 noon
Highlander Bunkhouse, Huntly
Soup served with poetry from two popular books sold in aid of MacMillan Cancer Relief
Saturday 1 September
2pm
Brander Library Garden, Huntly
Paul Kieniewicz
Saturday 1 September
3pm
Brander Library, Huntly
Maggie Craig
Sunday 2 September
10am–4pm
Huntly Auction Mart, Huntly
at the Huntly Auction Mart Cattle Pens
Week 2
Tuesday 4 September
7.30pm
OAP Hall, Huntly
Anne L. Forbes on the Gordons of Huntly in Sixteenth-Century Scotland
Thursday 6 September
6.30pm
Books and Beans, Aberdeen
A selection of witty, heart-stirring and lyrical poems from three North-East poets
Friday 7 September
7.30pm
Aberdeen Central Library, Aberdeen
Burned — Pierced — Scarred
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