wordfringe
2009
1st–31st May 2009
Week 3
Monday 11 May
7pm
Cellar 35, Aberdeen
Robert Ramsay launches his poetry collection, and Olivia McMahon reads from her new novel
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Tuesday 12 May
6.30pm
Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen
New poetry in English, Greek and Nepali with film, painting, digital art
and improvised music
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Wednesday 13 May
10am
Woodend Barn, Banchory
with Sheila Reid
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Friday 15 May
Saturday 16 May
Sunday 17 May
University of Aberdeen
University of Aberdeen Writers' Festival
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Week 4
Tuesday 19 May
6.30pm
Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen
(...trucks never sleep: or hurt: I do...)
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Tuesday 19 May
8pm
The Tunnels, Aberdeen
Sharp-tongued radical poetry and hard hitting political songs
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Wednesday 20 May
7pm
Better Read Books, Ellon
This event celebrates the new Koo Press chapbook by Paulina Vanderbilt
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Thursday 21 May
6.30pm
Books and Beans, Aberdeen
This event celebrates the new Koo Press chapbook by Paulina Vanderbilt
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Friday 22 May
4pm
Museum of Scottish Lighthouses, Fraserburgh
Listen to lighthouse poetry performed by Writer in Residence Knotbrook Taylor and
local school children
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Friday 22 May
7.30pm
The Lemon Tree, Aberdeen
Beyond Our Kennel: Innovative stand-up comic poetry
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Saturday 23 May
11am
Douglas Hotel, Aberdeen
A workshop with John Hegley
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Sunday 24 May
8pm
St James Episcopal Church, Stonehaven
World premiere of John Hearne's English translation of the Swedish text by Bengt
Pohjanen
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Double Launch
Robert Ramsay launches his poetry collection, and Olivia McMahon reads from her
new novel
Cellar 35, Aberdeen [Map]
Admission free
No booking required
Robert Ramsay launches his new book of poems Driving Back (Blue Salt Publishing), collected over the last five years:
poems of the land, of childhood, love and the male menopause, of his experiences
as a farmer in Scotland and as an engineer and holiday maker in West Africa.
Tonight is also the Aberdeen launch of Olivia McMahon's novel Love as a Foreign Language,
the story of a woman teacher of English as a foreign language in an Aberdeen language
school, teaching mainly employees of the locally based oil company Termoil.
Musical interludes will be provided by Morag Skene and Tom Dailly.
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Robert Ramsay has been writing poetry since he stumbled on its therapeutic
effect in the 1990s. From his childhood on the land he went to engineering, which
took him to Nigeria. He returned to Angus, to farming, in 1974, surrendered to his
sons in 2000. He has been scribbling since.
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Olivia McMahon's novel Love as a Foreign Language is based (partly)
on her long and varied experience teaching English as a Foreign Language. A second
novel about a young hairdresser in Paris is based on no (hairdressing) experience
at all. Her collection of poems Domestic Verses published locally by Koo Press is all her own.
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Morag Skene is a North-East quine and is passionate about the arts. As part
of her work as a carer she directs the Willowbank All Stars and Showtime
groups and spends her free time involved with the Lemon Tree Writers,
Wordfringe Festival Players, WAC (Writers and Actors Collaboration),
Cruden Bay Panto, or doing the odd bit of Aiberdeen writing, as she calls it, and
singing. She is delighted to be part of the launch of Robert's wonderful book of
poems and wishes him every success.
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Tom Dailly is a singer and songwriter of folk, country, rock n roll and even
love songs in Lallans — whichever way inspiration strikes him.
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