Belfast Book Festival 2014

BELFAST BOOK FESTIVAL 9—15 June 2014

“Belfast has long been famous as a city of readers and writers and the Belfast Book Festival perfectly captures the moods of invention and reflection and fun which only a book can excite. The Arts Council is delighted to support this Festival – reading is still a private and intimate joy, but when it goes ‘live’, on song, outdoors or on stage, this is where public funding rightly comes into its own.”

Damian Smyth, Head of Literature and Drama Arts Council of Northern Ireland

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Accessibility The Festival is fully accessible, but we do however recommend that we are notified when booking of any specific requirements so that we can adequately provide for your needs. A 2 for the price of 1 offer is also available in the case of an attendee requiring assistance - please contact us when booking to arrange this.

Free Events Availability for free events is ‘first come, first served’. Tickets for free events should be booked in advance if specified in individual event listings.

Contents

Monday 9 June 5 Tuesday 10 June 13 Wednesday 11 June 19 Thursday 12 June 27 Friday 13 June 35 Saturday 14 June 41 Sunday 15 June 47 At a Glance 32 Venue map 34 Week long events 52 Festival Extra 54

BELFAST BOOK FESTIVAL 9—15 June 2014

Staff Festival Director Keith Acheson

Graphic Design Rinky Design

Housekeeping Marlena Wysocka

Marketing Tracy O’Toole

Website Melissa Gordon

EVS Volunteer Maria Redondo

Outreach & Education Ann Feely

Administration (PT) Megan Boyd

Arts Technician Oliver Quinn

Reception Siobhan Green

Casual Desk Staff Daniela Balmaverde, Tonya McMullan, Peter McCloskey, Brígh Strawbridge, Rachael Kelly and Rebecca Corr.

Press Laure James

Weekend Reception Clement Lesbarrères

Festival Bookseller No Alibis Bookstore

Maintenance Officer Bill Smith

our Funders

Festival partners

Casual Crew Chris Lavery, Nadine Casley and Conor Maguire.

We would also like to thank our huge team of volunteers for making the festival happen.

our sponsors

This project has been generously supported by the Magilligan Fund.

The Belfast Book Festival is funded by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and Belfast City Council. The views expressed during the festival are not necessarily shared or endorsed by our funders, the Belfast Book Festival or the Crescent Arts Centre and they do not accept any responsibility or liability for same.

Monday 9 June

An Unrepentant Romantic:

Elizabeth Meehan

Remembering Richard Hayward with paul clements

CRESCENT ARTS CENTRE MONday 9 June, 1pm TICKETS: £5/£3

ulster hall MONday 9 June, 1pm Free admission

In an era where publishing lies on the horizon in a way unimaginable before, the irony remains - never more has it been so possible and simultaneously impossible to get published. Destination publishing for most is no quick affair; there are innumerable stages and pitstops (which offer their own benefit and value) along the road to getting published. These stages however are rarely spoken of publicly or shared, as most talks fixate on the publishing experience.

On the 50th anniversary of his death, we look back on the life and times of Richard Hayward - one of Ireland’s best loved celebrities from the mid 20th Century.

This talk explores the writing residency. A 101 of what it is, how it works, who it's for, and who is most likely to benefit and how to prepare for the experience, funding and how to get the most out of it.

In addition, Elizabeth will read a short excerpt from her novel Unchanging Dolls, from her residency which explores the hyper-sexualisation of women in society today, a topic of great interest to many.

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The writer, actor, singer and broadcaster appeared in the first black and white Irish films in the 1930s and recorded history, folklore and heritage for his popular travel books.

Journalist, broadcaster and travel writer Paul Clements - whose biography, An Unrepentant Romantic: Richard Hayward, 1892-1964, tells the story of his remarkable life - explains why Hayward’s name has fallen into abeyance.

Book Detectives wordflock: with Sam Porciello Where Origami and Haiku Collide

crescent arts centre MONday 9 June, 4pm free admission, ages 7-10

Put on your detective’s hat and grab your magnifying glass, we are going on a character investigation hunt and not one book will be left unturned! Activities will include, interviewing suspects and witnesses while finding and investigating clues.

We need your detective skills to help us find the characters who have escaped their story books!

with Caroline Healy

crescent arts centre MONday 9 June, 4.30-5.30pm, Ages 11-14 tuesday 10 june, 10.30-11.30am, adults & older people.

Free admission

Word Flock, a folding origami extravaganza made from literary text is incubating at the Crescent Arts Centre. This installation art piece is an organic response in written and folded form to art, literature and poetry.

Come along to a Haiku Writing Workshop, learn the art of traditional Japanese poetry, pen your poem and then fold into an origami crane to be incorporated into the this large interactive piece of art.

No experience necessary, just a willingness to partake.

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"Motion's creative documentary approach proves frighteningly efficient in highlighting numerous, unexpected - and unreported - details of warfare, from 1914 to the present day."

Alan Brownjohn, The Sunday Times

"Motion's greatest and most distinctive gift...is to look squarely at the world and describe it with a plain and unsentimental eloquence that makes world value seem all the more questionable."

ANDREW MOTION crescent arts centre MONday 9 June, 7.30pm tickets: £8/£6

Andrew Motion is President of the Campaign to Protect Rural England. His latest project is Poetry By Heart.

The Customs House is a stunning new collection from the former Poet Laureate.

The book is in three sections, and opens with a sequence of war poems, Laurels and Donkeys, which draws on soldiers' experiences from the First and Second World war, through to the recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. He also reads from The Cinder Path (Faber), shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry, and answers questions about his writing. Followed by book signing.

Andrew Motion’s poetry has received the Arvon/Observer Prize, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and the Dylan Thomas Prize.

He is Professor of Creative Writing at Royal Holloway and co-founded The Poetry Archive. Andrew Motion was knighted for his services to literature in 2009.

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Independent on Sunday andrewmotion.co.uk @motionandrew

TITANIA SHORT STORY CONTEST

with Studioni

black box MONday 9 June, 6.30pm free admission

Studio NI, the largest Arts & Culture group in the North of Ireland, runs an annual short story contest called the TITANIAs - Top Independent Talented Artistes N.I. Award. The shortlisted stories are published in an annual anthology, and placed on sale with profits going to charity.

This summer, contributors from the 2013 anthology Skeletons in the Closet as well as the 2012 anthology Ghosts in the Glass have volunteered to read from their work. The Short Story TITANIA is an audience choice award, so attendees are encouraged to vote for their favourite.

Doire Press Authors CRESCENT ARTS CENTRE MONday 9 June, 6.30pm TICKETS: £6/£4

Kimberley Campanello was born in Elkhart, Indiana. Her pamphlet Spinning Cities was published by Wurm Press in 2011.

She was featured poet in the Summer 2010 issue of The Stinging Fly, and her poems have appeared in magazines in the USA, Canada, the UK, and Ireland, including Abridged, The Cream City Review, filling station, Irish Left Review, nthposition, Tears in the Fence, and The Penny Dreadful. Consent was published

by Doire Press in 2013.

(2013), and long-listed for the Montreal International Poetry Competition (2011).

Keeping Bees was published by Doire Press in March, 2014.

Doire Press is based in Connemara and publishes poetry and literary fiction. It began in 2007 and has since grown into one of the most notable small presses in Ireland.

Poetry titles include Adam White’s Accurate Measurements, the only Irish publication to be short-listed for the 2013 Forward Prize for poetry.

Eamon Carr began publishing his poems in the late 1960s. Later, with Peter Fallon, he formed poetry-performance group Tara Telephone and co-edited the literary collections Capella and The Book of Invasions before concentrating his energies as writer, conceptualist and drummer for Horslips. A former recipient of the Sarah Purser Scholarship and Prize, in 2010, his five-poem cycle Ascension: Ireland was staged in the Walled Garden of the Pearse Museum, Dublin by composer and intermedia artist Daniel Figgis. Deirdre Unforgiven was published by Doire Press in 2013.

Dimitra Xidous' poems have been published in literary journals in Canada, Ireland and the US, including Room, Penduline and Colony. A featured poet in The Stinging Fly, Dimitra’s work was included in the anthology New Planet Cabaret (New Island, 2013). She was a finalist in the 2014 Malahat Review Open Season Awards, shortlisted for both the Bridport Prize (2013) and for the Over the Edge Emerging New Writer Award

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Max Keiser

Mitch Feierstein

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Stacy Herbert

Bankruptcy Collapse Meltdown

Featuring Mitch Feierstein, Max Keiser & Stacy Herbert

CRESCENT ARTS CENTRE MONday 9 June, 9pm TICKETS: £10/£8

The Belfast Book Festival is honoured to welcome three powerhouses in journalism, finance and global economics. The event features a presentation by Mitch Feierstein on the continuing global financial crisis, based on his book Planet Ponzi. He will then be joined in a panel discussion by Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert. An event you will not forget!

Mitch Feierstein knows the financial industry inside out. For the past 30 years, he has consistently created opportunity and value where others have failed to look. He is a highly successful hedge-fund manager and CEO of Glacier Environmental Fund Limited. Prior to Glacier he was Senior Portfolio Manager of the Cheyne Carbon Fund, part of one of the largest and bestrespected hedge-fund groups operating in Europe. He has acted as a consultant for a number of governments in their disaster and contingency planning. Mitch lives between London and New York.

Max Keiser has been called America's most outrageous political pundit (Independent) and the most dangerous man in financial media (Huffington Post). A broadcaster, film maker, writer and entrepreneur. Max’s output includes, the Keiser Report, (RT

television news) and, on radio, he hosts the weekly Truth About Markets for Resonance FM in London. He has also produced and presented a dozen short films for the series People & Power on the Al-Jazeera English global news network and ten episodes of The Oracle with Max Keiser for BBC World News.

Keiser invented the "Virtual Specialist Technology", a market making software system used by the Hollywood Stock Exchange to trade feature films and Hollywood celebrities like stocks and bonds. Aside from financial markets and technology, Max is also interested in precious metals and cryptocurrencies and was one of the first to discuss and cover Bitcoin on a regular basis.

Stacy Herbert is the co-presenter of the Keiser Report, a programme about markets and finance. The show is broadcast internationally and was one of the first international news programmes to discuss Bitcoin and has since covered the emergence of other crypto currencies. She also hosts a weekly radio show in London and produces a new online series, GetREAL, about real assets, including cryptocurrencies, precious metals and other commodities. Before that, Stacy worked in film and television production in Hollywood and film sales in London.

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Frontispiece Design Workshop With David Haughey

crescent arts centre MONday 9 June, 7-9pm Saturday 14 June 2014, 2-4pm tickets: £12/£10

In this one-off workshop David will demonstrate the design of a book frontispiece using natural media.

Using examples from a recent project, participants will see how text is selected, how to consider composition by developing useful thumbnail images, and techniques practically demonstrating how to handle pure graphite and compressed charcoal.

David Haughey is a professional artist and illustrator who has made images for the New York Times, The Royal Opera House, The Wall Street Journal, Universal Pictures, The Oxford University Press, and regularly for The Vacuum. His work has been exhibited internationally.

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Write Fight black box MONday 9 June, 8pm tickets: £3

The guys at Belfast literary site The Bear have their teeth out and claws sharpened for a grizzly evening of literary torture and linguistic nightmare.

The Write Fight pits you against the blank page in round after round of writing challenges and creative conundrums. Can you write a story without using the letter 'E'? How about turning your favourite novel into a haiku? Each round is timed, and as they go on, the challenges get harder and the judges harsher.

Winning entries will be published at www.thebear-review.com and, who knows, you may discover your hidden bard.

tuesday 10 June

…of here and there…

Raquel McKee & Nandi Jola

Irish Literary Shorts

Performed by Conor Maguire Linen Hall Library tuesday 10 June, 1pm tickets: £5/£3

The work of two of Ireland's best-loved writers performed together specially for the Belfast Book Festival. Brendan Behan's The Confirmation Suit and Frank O'Connor's Guest Of The Nation have been adapted for the stage by Conor Maguire and Kevin Murray. These pieces highlight the ability of the writers to capture the unique dark Irish sense of humour. Razor sharp observations merge with truly comic writing in the creation of two hilarious yet poignant works from two giants of Irish literature.

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Crescent Arts Centre tuesday 10 June, 1pm tickets: £5/£3

Prepare to be moved, challenged, engaged and entertained as two of the most prominent poets from Northern Ireland’s ethnic minority community collaborate in this literary lunchtime feast.

Nandi Jola is a thought-provoking poet from South Africa whose work has been published in the FourxFour and Incubator poetry journals and the Still anthology.

Nandi grew up under the Apartheid regime and describes her poetry as ‘something between Belfast and Africa’. Come and be intrigued by this Xhosa woman as she speaks “igqira lendlela ngu qongqothwane” poetry.

Raquel McKee is Jamaican born and has exploded on the N. I. poetry scene with her Jamaican dub poetry with a N.I. twist. “It is social commentary, carried on the wings of fusion arts”. The African Caribbean Support Organization of Northern Ireland awarded Raquel for her outstanding contribution to arts, entertainment and music and her exceptional contribution to cultural diversity in Northern Ireland.

LITERARY LUNCHTIMES:

Poetry v Prose Ulster Hall tuesday 10 June, 1pm Free admission

Join poets Nathaniel Joseph McAuley and Olive Broderick and novelists Michael Nolan and Emily DeDakis for this informal reading and debate, as they pit poetry against prose in an epic battle to prove which is the superior literary form.

Michael Nolan The Blame Poetry Workshop Introduced by Ciaran Carson With Kimberly Campanello crescent arts centre tuesday 10 June, 2.30-4.30pm tickets: £12/10

This workshop is for people with some previous experience writing poetry who want to participate in an encouraging writing environment. We will focus on giving and receiving feedback and on developing your drafts. The session will also include reading and writing exercises that explore poetic styles and techniques and provide an opportunity to generate new writing. Each participant will submit 1-2 poems in advance of the session for discussion in the workshop.

Crescent Arts Centre tuesday 10 June, 6pm free admission

A young man wants to make amends for the death of a friend, but will he be executed before he can turn his life around?

Donal, an unemployed twenty-three year old is trying to get to grips with his friend, Pearce, dying at the hands of the fatal Green Rolex ecstasy pills that have surfaced around the city of Belfast. Donal is conflicted, struggling more because it was he, Donal, who gave the pills out at a party in the early hours of the morning the day after Boxing Day.

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Product of Perception

Curated by Geraldine O’Kane black box tuesday 10 June, 7pm tickets: £5/£3

All language is powerful and usually a product of individual perception. What this exhibit aims to explore is how artists and poets interpret language, be it written, visual or movement, taking the individual perception and letting it speak to people the world over. Come and see how one initial perspective completely changes when five artists, interpret the words of six poets, in a series of chain reaction pieces, passed from poet, to artist, to poet and so on, culminating in a night of poetry, dance and music like you have never seen before.

Tonya McMullan, Colin Dardis, Ray Givans, Olive Broderick, Anne-Marie Mullan, Brian Kielt, Dale Mawhinney, Mark Graham, David Braziel, David Yates and Geraldine O’Kane

An Evening With Claire Keegan Crescent Arts Centre tuesday 10 June, 8pm tickets: £8/£6

Claire Keegan has had the rare honour of having one of her short stories published as a stand alone book by Faber, that story Foster was also voted Story of the Year in The New Yorker in 2010. Her short story collections have won numerous awards and been translated into 14 languages. Tonight Claire will read from her work and talk about the power of the short story form followed by a Q & A. Get your questions ready for this rare chance to spend an evening with this inspiring and influential writer.

"The best stories here are so textured and moving, so universal but utterly distinctive..." The New York Times Claire will be talking with short story writer Paul McVeigh who has interviewed authors George Saunders and Kevin Barry.

He is deputy editor at Word Factory the UK's leading short story event and Director of the London Short Story Festival.

"Every line seems to be a lesson in the perfect deployment of both style and emotion." Hilary Mantel

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Talking Myself Home IAN McMILLAN

Crescent Arts Centre tuesday 10 June, 8.30pm tickets: £8/£6

Ian is poet-in-residence for The Academy of Urbanism and Barnsley FC. Previously he was resident poet for English National Opera, UK Trade & Investment Poet, Yorkshire TV’s Investigative Poet and Humberside Police’s Beat Poet. He presents The Verb every week on BBC R3 and he’s a regular on Coast, Pick of the Week, You & Yours, Last Word and The Arts Show.

He’s been a castaway on Desert Island Discs and featured with his Orchestra on The South Bank Show. Cats make him sneeze. ian-mcmillan.co.uk @IMcMillan

"World-class – one of today’s greatest poetry performers" Carol Ann Duffy

"the verbal gymnastics of a north country Spike Milligan coupled with the comic timing of Eric Morecambe" Frome Festival

"You could bring a smile to a banana!"

Black Mountains Lions’ Club

‘If there's a more engaging presence on the radio than Barnsley poet Ian McMillan and a more entertaining show than Radio 3's The Verb then I don't know it" Stuart Maconie, Radio Times

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JOSEPH O’CONNOR Disappear Here in conversation with Seamus McKee Jan Carson and Hannah crescent arts centre tuesday 10 June, 6.45pm TICKETS: £8/£6

Joseph O'Connor is a multiple awardwinning novelist from Dublin. His book Star of the Sea became an international bestseller, selling more than a million copies, and his novel Ghost Light was selected as Dublin One City One Book novel in 2011. The Drivetime Diaries, a CD of his contributions to RTE Radio One topped the Irish charts. He is McCourt Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Limerick. His latest novel The Thrill of it All has just been published.

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McPhillimy, hosted by marie-louise muir

Black box tuesday 10 June, 9pm tickets: £5/£3

Belfast-based novelist Jan Carson and singer-songwriter Hannah McPhillimy take you on a journey of words and music with Malcolm Orange, the young hero of Carson’s recently published novel, Malcolm Orange Disappears. (Liberties Press 2014).

Combining short excerpts from the novel which follows the adventures of Malcolm and his elderly friends in a North American retirement village with the songs McPhillimy has written in response to the text, the evening will explore ideas of collaboration, inspiration and storytelling across artistic genres.

wednesday 11 June

Willetta Fleming & Deborah Alicia Nicholas CRESCENT ARTS CENTRE wednesday 11 June, 1pm tickets: £5/£3

Willetta Fleming was born in Detroit, Michigan, USA. She moved to Northern Ireland in 2004 and is a mother to two beautiful daughters. Willetta has always enjoyed the written word - a poet and author, her book Finding Black Gold on the Emerald Isle is a captivating odyssey of her life's journey until now.

“Never before have I felt such encouragement and true warmth as I turned the pages. This is the kind of book that will leave you feeling inspired, empowered, and ready to embark upon your own journey.”

Deborah Alicia Nicholas’ A Ray Of Hope is a heartfelt account of the devastation of miscarriage. It is raw with emotion and honesty, punctuated with poignant scripture. It maps the journey of a broken heart, through grieving and healing to wholeness and wellbeing. This story of sorrow and love will touch your heart, comfort your soul, ignite your spirit, encourage your faith and inspire your hope.

1 Corinthians 13:13 - And now these three remain: faith hope and love. But the greatest is love.

Deborah was born in Mile End Hospital, East London and brought up on the beautiful island of St. Lucia. She is a Chartered Paediatric physiotherapist and pursuing her dream as an author.

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LITERARY LUNCHTIMES:

Claire McGowan in conversation with David Torrans In House Readings Ulster Hall wednesday 11 June, 1pm tickets: £5

Claire McGowan has joined the ranks of Northern Ireland`s highly successful crime fiction writers with her critically acclaimed first two novels, 2012’s The Fall and The Lost (2013).

To mark the recent publication of The Dead Ground - her third novel and the second in a series featuring forensic psychologist, Paula Maguire - Claire reads from this new book and joins David Torrans of Belfast’s No Alibis Bookstore in a conversation about the novel and about crime fiction.

with Ruth Carr

crescent arts centre wednesday 11 June, 7.30pm free admission

Come along and listen to the writers who attend the diverse range of writing classes held weekly at the Crescent Arts Centre. Ruth Carr will be hosting this showcase of local hidden talent…but come early, as every year this event has sold out!

"McGowan writes utterly convincingly...She will go far."

The Daily Mail

Presented in association with The John Hewitt Society and Belfast Book Festival 2014.

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Sorry for your Troubles Pádraig Ó Tuama

Crescent Arts Centre wednesday 11 June, 6.30pm tickets: £5/£3

Pádraig Ó Tuama’s new and powerful collection of poetry, Sorry for your Troubles (Canterbury Press, 2013), arises out of his work in reconciliation, enabling people to tell their stories of living through personal and political conflict in Northern Ireland – a period of conflict frequently referred to as ‘the Troubles’.

The expression ‘Sorry for your troubles’ is used all over Ireland. It comes from the Irish language where the word ‘troiblóid’ connotes ‘bereavements’. So the expression carries the greater weight of ‘Sorry for your bereavements’. With this in mind, this collection is an eloquent poetic witness to a time in which over 3000 people lost their lives and many more were left bearing the effects of such loss. It illustrates that alongside the grief and the enduring pain, indestructible things remain: tenacity, hope and courage.

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Pádraig Ó Tuama is a poet based in Belfast. He has worked with the Corrymeela Community, Cooperation Ireland and Mediation Northern Ireland using story and dialogue to help deepen reconciliation. He is a popular speaker at festivals in Ireland and the UK, and he lectures and leads retreats throughout Ireland, the UK, the US and Australia.

"Pádraig Ó Tuama is an extraordinary person, whose influence extends quietly and gracefully across the world. His poetry bears these same qualities and brings him close. It is a gift to us all."

Krista Tippett. Creator and host of 'On Being'.

"Deeply moving and thoughtprovoking poetry which invites readers to let the sacred reach into them touching their vulnerability and opening their hearts."

Dr. Cecelia Clegg, Theologian, New College, Edinburgh. Co-author of 'Moving Beyond Sectarianism'.

Emma Heatherington In conversation with Sarah Travers

Crescent Arts Centre wednesday 11 June, 6.30pm tickets: £6/£4

Emma Heatherington is a scriptwriter and novelist from County Tyrone. To date, she has penned seven romantic comedy books (Poolbeg Press) and recently signed a new four book deal with Harper Collins under their romance imprint Harper Impulse.

One of her novels, Since You Been Gone was a Tesco Number One bestseller. She also writes romantic suspense under the name Emma Louise Jordan.

Emma’s scriptwriting has led to productions which have been performed all over Northern Ireland and she has written educational plays and short films for clients such as DOE Road Safety, PSNI Community Partnership, Niamh Louise Foundation, Belfast City Council, Derry City Council, Queen’s University and many, many more.

She is a regular scriptwriter for Beam Creative Network and the renowned Bardic Theatre in her home village in Donaghmore.

Emma also writes as an arts and travel contributor for Sunday Life newspaper and facilitates musicians and artists in Public Relations.

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Queen of Couture Cakes: Mich Turner MBE

Hillmount Garden Centre 56/58 upper braniel rd, gilnahirk wednesday 11 June, 6.30pm tickets: £10/£8

Mich Turner MBE is founder of Little Venice Cake Company and often described as ‘Queen of Couture Cakes’, thanks to her award winning designs and celebrity clientele including Her Majesty The Queen, Madonna, Pierce Brosnan, Sharon & Ozzy Osbourne, Cheryl Cole, Gordon Ramsay and David Beckham. Among her many awards and accolades, Mich was named Harper’s Bazaar & CHANEL Entrepreneur of the Year 2006, and in 2009 Little Venice Cake Company was listed in the Walpole Luxury Brands of Tomorrow. In 2010 Mich was honoured with receiving an MBE for her services to the catering industry.

Mich is a successful author of four books including Fantastic Party Cakes, Couture Wedding Cakes, Spectacular Cakes which won ‘Best Dessert Book’ in the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards 2006. Her latest book, Mich Turner's Cake Masterclass: The Ultimate Guide to Cake Decorating Perfection, was first published with Jacqui Small in 2011, and a revised edition published in November 2012. Her new book Mich Turner's Cake School launches in September 2014.

has her own range of cake decorating tools licensed under the LVCC brand. Mich is a regular face at major food festivals, and teaches cake decorating and sugar craft internationally.

Mich has a successful television career having had her own series in 2010 and appeared as a guest expert on many programmes, and alongside presenters such as Heston Blumenthal and Kirstie Allsopp. Most recently she has been judging professional bakeries across the UK for two series in 2013 and 2014.

Mich is the Bentley of cake makers” Gordon Ramsay

Mich is often asked to design cakes for high profile brands and has worked with Dr. Oetker, Allinson’s, Baileys, Divine Chocolate, United Biscuits, Silverspoon, Finsbury Foods, and stores including Harrods and Fortnum & Mason. She also

“Great Cake Chemistry” Heston Blumenthal

“Mich is the Master of Cake Perfection - Learn from the best!”

Kirstie Allsopp

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The Lifeboat Ian Duhig & Caitlin Newby Sunflower Bar wednesday 11 June, 7.30pm free admission

Ian Duhig has won the Forward Best Poem Prize, the National Poetry Competition and three times been shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize. He has written six books of poetry, most recently Pandorama (Picador 2010) and later this year will publish Digressions with the artist Philippa Troutman, the result of a project based round Shandy Hall, where Laurence Sterne lived and wrote.

Caitlin Newby was born in Los Angeles, went to university in New York State, and is currently a postgraduate student at the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry in Belfast.

The Lifeboat is a monthly reading series which provides a new platform for contemporary poetry. Each month a poet who has published at least one full-length collection is paired with a new and unpublished poet.

A Song Among the Stones

Kenneth Steven & Colin Reid Agape Centre, Lisburn Road wednesday 11 June, 8pm tickets: £6/£4

A Song among the Stones is a sequence of poems that tells the imagined story of 6th Century Celtic Christian monks who may well have made the voyage from Columba's island of Iona to Iceland. The sequence is presented as a meditation, a melding of music and the spoken voice.

Since it was written it has been interpreted by a whole range of professional musicians. It is Kenneth Steven's 12th poetry collection, published by Birlinn in Scotland. Kenneth is also a widely published writer of fiction for adults and youngsters alike. Kenneth is joined in this performance by local guitarist Colin Reid.

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The Irish The Boy Who Short Story Could See Demons Billy O’Callaghan, Colin Barrett Carolyn Jess-Cooke

& Paul McVeigh

crescent arts centre Wednesday 11 June, 8pm Tickets: £6/£4

Crescent Arts Centre Wednesday 11 June, 8pm Tickets: £6/£4

Carolyn Jess-Cooke is a poet and novelist from Belfast. Her poetry has won many prizes and her first novel The Guardian Angel's Journey was published in 22 languages and was an international bestseller. Her second novel The Boy Who Could See Demons - about mental health in post-troubles Belfast - is a brilliant novel of suspense that delves into the recesses of the human mind and soul—perfect for fans of Gillian Flynn and Lisa Unger. The Boy Who Could See Demons follows a child psychologist who comes up against a careerdefining case—one that threatens to unravel her own painful past and jeopardizes the life of a boy who can see the impossible.

Carolyn has recently secured film rights for the novel.

Billy O'Callaghan is the author of three short story collections, the title story of his latest The Things We Lose, the Things We Leave Behind won the writing.ie Short Story of the Year Award at the 2013 Irish Book Awards. Billy will read alongside new short story sensation Colin Barrett whose stunning first collection Young Skins was originally published by The Stinging Fly before being taken up by Jonathan Cape in the UK and sold to the US. Paul McVeigh's short stories have been published in journals, anthologies and commissioned by BBC Radio 4. Paul, Director of the London Short Story Festival, will read and lead a discussion on the Irish short story followed by a Q & A with the authors.

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thursday 12 June

LiTERARY LUNCHTIMES:

Tara West - Out of the Dark Ulster Hall Thursday 12 June, 1pm free admission

Owen O’Neill Crescent Arts Centre Thursday 12 June, 1pm tickets: £6/4

Award winning writer poet and standup Owen O’Neill will read from his new collection of poetry.

“O’Neill runs the gauntlet from the sublime to the ridiculous.” Telegraph “Poetry a pint and a pie, a perfect way to spend an hour. O’Neill is great company.” Evening Herald

Two weeks after the launch of her first novel, Fodder, Tara West confessed to her husband that she wanted to kill herself.

Her new book, Happy Dark, is an account of her journey in and out of depression, taking in her cash-strapped beginnings, her unconventional mother, her determination to succeed, breakdown and recovery.

Tara reads from this witty, intelligent and honest memoir which challenges attitudes towards mental illness. “…I’m on the verge of disintegration, a woman made of sand, and the only thing holding me together is my skin…”

bubbleloon crescent arts centre thursday 12 June, 10.30am & 4pm Friday 13 june, 10.30am & 4pm tickets: £5 (family of 4: £18)

Stepping into a world of colour and wonder, two friends discover and explore the things that they find. With playful imagination, anything can be made into a game, but they soon discover they are very different people who like doing things in different ways. Will a magical balloon help them to get along and build a friendship? Toot-Toot Productions combines the creative talents of performer and director Jenny Long with dancer and choreographer Suzannah McCreight to present this visually delightful expression of theatre and dance. (Ages 3-7yrs)

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Fantasy & Historical Fiction

with Blackstaff Press

Who was Mark Antony?

With rachael kelly

Crescent Arts Centre Thursday 12 June, 1pm tickets: £5/£3

Who was Mark Antony? Lover or soldier?

Leader or bon vivant? Hero of the old Republic or traitor of Rome? From Plutarch to Shakespeare, from Richard Burton to James Purefoy, popular culture has imagined him as the tragic hero, dashing but deeply flawed - a man who threw away an empire for love. But history is written by the winners, and the winners in the struggle for Rome were no friends of Antony. In this talk, Dr. Rachael Kelly discusses her forthcoming book, Mark Antony and Popular Culture: Masculinity and the Construction of an Icon, and looks at how Roman political invective has masqueraded as fact in shaping the way we think of a man who almost ruled the known world.

crescent arts centre Thursday 12 June, 5.45pm tickets: £6/£4

Join Blackstaff Press authors Laurence Donaghy and Kenneth Gregory as they discuss their novels and writing styles, their thoughts on the publishing experience and their plans for the future. The event will be compered by fantasy author and journalist Leona O'Neill.

Dream On waterstones Thursday 12 June, 6.30pm tickets: £6/£4

Meet John Richardson. A typical weekend golfer who couldn't break one hundred. But he differed from the average 24-handicapper in one crucial way. He was determined to break par within a year at the local golf course, while working in a demanding full-time job and trying his best to remain a good husband and father.

Sam Torrance advises John to 'dream on' and Darren Clarke tells him three years would be more realistic. Add a range of golfing injuries, family responsibilities and working schedule, and you can understand the doubters. Dream On is the story of how John achieved the seemingly impossible - from how the initial challenge took shape and the methods he used to dramatically improve his game to that glorious day, less than one year later, when he broke par and played the best round of his life.

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ACES on Tour A showcase of up & coming

literary voices

PRONI Office Thursday 12 June, 7pm free admission

The artists involved are some of Northern Ireland’s most talented rising stars of literature and have been awarded grants from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.

Pauline Burgess is a writer of children’s and adult fiction. Born in Rostrevor, Pauline was inspired by the beauty of the Mourne area and often finds it seeping into her writing.

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Jan Carson is a writer and community arts development officer for the Ulster Hall. She is currently based in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

No Alibis Bookstore Thursday 12 June, 6.30pm free admission

Kenneth Gregory is a Belfast-born author.

His debut novel The Polaris Whisper, was the first fantasy novel published by Blackstaff Press. Kenneth is currently working on an enhanced eBook of ‘The Polaris Whisper.’

Matt Kirkham is from Luton, and has been living in Northern Ireland for over 20 years now. His collection The Lost Museums (Lagan) won the Strong Prize for best first collection in Ireland.

Nathaniel Joseph McAuley is Belfastbased poet and creative writing teacher. His debut pamphlet The Dyer’s Notes on Indigo and Other Poems was released mid-2013 at the Belfast Book Festival.

Anthony Quinn graduated in English at Queen’s University, Belfast and then completed a Masters Degree in Social Work, before finding work as a journalist. He has won critical acclaim and, twice, shortlisted for the Hennessy/New Irish Writing Award.

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Welcome to The Squat Pen – the poetry night with a difference.

We are delighted to be featuring Sinead Morrissey, winner of the TS Eliot Prize, supported by Catherine Hatt, Kathleen McCracken, Alice McCullough, Andrew Soye, Grainne Tobin and Martin Tyrrell.

The Squat Pen showcases up-andcoming and established writers. We bring together written-for-the-page poetry and performance poetry, poetry and music, poetry and prose. You'll find a showcase filled with riches, a cornucopia of words and music. We hope you will be thrilled.

The Squat Pen is organised by poets Ray Givans and Paul Jeffcutt.

B is for Breast Cancer

Christine Hamill in conversation with Sarah Travers Crescent Arts Centre Thursday 12 June, 6.30pm tTickets: £6/£4

A friendly and practical insider's guide.

Full of tips, advice, explanation and reassurance, it will be an invaluable companion throughout your treatment. It will even make you laugh, when you don't feel like it.

"The day after I was diagnosed with breast cancer, I was standing in the chemist with a basket in my hand, blinking back tears and thinking, "Now what does a breast cancer patient need?" All I could come up with was waterproof mascara. I put some in my basket and thought someone should write an alternative guide to breast cancer.

Step one - buy waterproof mascara. You're going to need it."

Written whilst undergoing cancer treatment, this book is an honest and frank account of the emotional and physical impact of a cancer diagnosis. It is at turns funny, sad, angry and ultimately optimistic. Written without sentimentality, B is for Breast Cancer offers bite-size chunks of help and hope.

Jonathan Meades An Encyclopaedia of Myself in conversation with marcus patton Crescent Arts Centre Thursday 12 June, 8pm tickets: £8/£6

The 1950s were not grey. In Jonathan Meades’s detailed, petit-point memoir they are luridly polychromatic. They were peopled by embittered grotesques, bogus majors, vicious spinsters, reckless bohos, pompous boors, suicides. Death went dogging everywhere. Salisbury, where he was brought up, had two industries: God and the Cold War, both of which provided a cast of adults for the child to scrutinise – desiccated God-botherers on the one hand, gung-ho chemical warriors on the other.

The title is grossly inaccurate. This book is, rather, a portrait of a disappeared provincial England, a time and place unpeeled with gruesome relish.

Jonathan Meades is a writer, journalist, essayist and film-maker. His books include three works of fiction - Filthy English, Pompey and The Fowler Family Business - and several anthologies including Museum Without Walls which was selected as a book of the year in 2012 by seven critics. He has since published a box of photos in postcard form, Pidgin Snaps.

His most recent films Bunkers, Brutalism, Bloodymindedness:Concrete Poetry are in praise of architectural aggression and sod-you-ism.

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at a glance Weeklong Events Fully Booked - Curated by Caroline Healy

9-14 June

PS2 Gallery

Free

Re Root - Anushiya Sundaralingam

29 May - 28 June

Crescent Arts Centre

Free

Community Poetry Pillar

9-15 June

Crescent Arts Centre

Free

Writers in Schools

9-15 June

Various

Free

Monday 9 June Elizabeth Meehan

1pm

Crescent Arts Centre

£5/3

Remembering Richard Hayward with Paul Clements

1pm

Ulster Hall

Free

Book Detectives with Sam Porciello

4pm

Crescent Arts Centre

Free

Word Flock (11-14 yrs)

4.30pm

Crescent Arts Centre

Free

Studio NI's Titania Short Story Contest

6.30pm

Black Box

Free

Doire Press Authors

6.30pm

Crescent Arts Centre

£6/4

Frontispiece Design Workshop

7pm

Crescent Arts Centre

£12/10

Andrew Motion

7.30pm

Crescent Arts Centre

£8/6

Write/Fight

8pm

Black Box

£3

Bankruptcy, Collapse, Meltdown

9pm

Crescent Arts Centre

£10/8

Tuesday 10 June Word Flock (Adults & Older People)

10.30am

Crescent Arts Centre

Free

Irish Literary Shorts - Conor Maguire

1pm

Linen Hall Library

£5/3

...of here and there...

1pm

Crescent Arts Centre

£5/3

Literary Lunchtimes: Poets Vs Prose

1pm

Ulster Hall

Free

Poetry Workshop with Kimberly Campanello

2.30pm

Crescent Arts Centre

£12/10

Michael Nolan's The Blame

6pm

Crescent Arts Centre

Free

Joseph O'Connor with Seamus McKee

6.45pm

Crescent Arts Centre

£8/6

Product Of Perception

7pm

Black Box

£5/3

Big Community Book Club Meeting

5.45pm

Crescent Arts Centre

Free

An Evening With Claire Keegan

8pm

Crescent Arts Centre

£8/6

Ian McMillan - Talking Myself Home

8.30pm

Crescent Arts Centre

£8/6

Disappear Here hosted by Marie-Louise Muir

9pm

Black Box

£5/3

Wednesday 11 June Irish Literary Shorts - Conor Maguire

1pm

Linen Hall Library

£5/3

Willetta Fleming & Deborah Alicia Nicholas

1pm

Crescent Arts Centre

£5/3

Literary Lunchtimes: Claire McGowan

1pm

Ulster Hall

£5

Pádraig Ó Tuama - "Sorry for your Troubles"

6.30pm

Crescent Arts Centre

£5/3

Mich Turner MBE

6.30pm

Hillmount Garden Centre

£10/8

Emma Heatherington with Sarah Travers

6.30pm

Crescent Arts Centre

£6/4

In House Readings - Ruth Carr

7.30pm

Crescent Arts Centre

Free

The Lifeboat - Ian Duhig & Caitlin Newby

7.30pm

Sunflower Bar

Free

A Song Among The Stones

8pm

Agape Centre

£6/4

The Boy Who Could See Demons

8pm

Crescent Arts Centre

£6/4

The Irish Short Story

8pm

Crescent Arts Centre

£6/4

Crescent Arts Centre

£5

Thursday 12 June Bubbleloon

10.30am & 4pm

Owen O'Neill

1pm

Crescent Arts Centre

£6/4

Literary Lunchtimes: Tara West

1pm

Ulster Hall

Free

Who was Mark Antony? Rachael Kelly

1pm

Crescent Arts Centre

£5/3

Fantasy & Historical Fiction

5.45pm

Crescent Arts Centre

£6/4

The Squat Pen

6.30pm

No Alibis Bookstore

Free

B is for Breast Cancer - Christine Hamill

6.30pm

Crescent Arts Centre

£6/4

ACES on Tour

7pm

PRONI Office

Free

Jonathan Meades - An Encyclopaedia of Myself

8pm

Crescent Arts Centre

£8/6

Friday 13 June Bubbleloon

10.30am & 4pm

Crescent Arts Centre

£5

Literary Lunchtimes: Writing for Youg Adults

1pm

Ulster Hall

Free

Seamus Heaney, Twenty Poems - Kevin Quinn

1pm

Crescent Arts Centre

£5/3

Randall Stephen Hall: Lunchtime Songs

1pm

Crescent Arts Centre

Free

Mixed Up Fairy Tales With Sam Porciello

3pm

Crescent Arts Centre

Free

Book Detectives With Sam Porciello

4pm

Crescent Arts Centre

Free

Pony Friends Forever - Pauline Burgess

4pm

Crescent Arts Centre

£3

Three Voices

6.30pm

Crescent Arts Centre

£6/4

Owen O'Neill: Red Noise

7.45pm

Crescent Arts Centre

£8/6

The Belfast Book Festival Poetry Slam

9.30pm

Crescent Arts Centre

£4

Saturday 15 June Family Fun Day / Fine & Dandy Market

10am-3pm

Lower Crescent Park

Free

Crafty Kids at Waterstones

10am-12pm

Waterstones

Free

LitNet NI presents Ways With Words

10.30am-4pm

Crescent Arts Centre

£20

Frontispiece Design Workshop

2-4pm

Crescent Arts Centre

£12/10

Sight Reading for Writers with Rosie Pelan

2-4pm

Crescent Arts Centre

£12/10

Lynne Segal - Out of Time

4.45pm

Crescent Arts Centre

£6/4

Writing on Motherhood

6pm

Crescent Arts Centre

£6/4

Paul Muldoon

8pm

Crescent Arts Centre

£8/6

Elvis McGonagall

10pm

Crescent Arts Centre

£6/4

Sunday 16 June Alan Johnson: This Boy

1pm

Crescent Arts Centre

£8/6

Pen Points Press Launch

2.30pm

Crescent Arts Centre

Free

Dad's Army: More Tea Vicar?

3pm

Crescent Arts Centre

£8/6

The Friday Tree - Sophia Hillan

4.30pm

Crescent Arts Centre

£6/4

Deirdre Cartmill and Maria McManus

6pm

Crescent Arts Centre

£6/4

Ann Widdecombe

8pm

Crescent Arts Centre

£8/6

Earth to Alice - Alice McCullough

9.30pm

Crescent Arts Centre

£6/4

Festival Extra Pierre Lemaitre's Iréne

30 May

Crescent Arts Centre

Free

Paul Charles

6 June

No Alibis

Free

Bookseller of Belfast

16&19 June

Crescent Arts Centre

£3

Something of Myself & Others

16 June

Crescent Arts Centre

£8/6

Unravelling Oliver

18 June

Crescent Arts Centre

£6/4

Rala: A Life In Rugby

19 June

Methodist College Belfast

£8/6

When the Neva Rushes Backwards

19 June

Crescent Arts Centre

Free

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1. Crescent Arts Centre 2. Lower Crescent Park 3. No Alibis Bookstore 4. The Ulster Hall 5. Black Box 6. Linen Hall Library 7. Sunflower Bar 8. Waterstones 9. Agape Centre 10. Hillmount Garden Centre 11. Methodist College Belfast 12. PRONI 13. PS2 Gallery

friday 13 June

LiTERARY LUNCHTIMES:

Writing for Young Adults

SEAMUS HEANEY, TWENTY POEMS Kevin Quinn

Ulster Hall Friday 13 June, 1pm Free admission

Crescent Arts Centre Friday 13 June, 1pm tickets: £5/£3

This informative and interactive panel of young adult writers featuring Pauline Burgess, Caroline Healy, DJ McCune and Sheena Wilkinson share their work and experiences within this increasingly popular genre.

Poet and critic Kevin Quinn introduces and reads twenty poems spanning Seamus Heaney’s writing life. The talk traces the development of Seamus Heaney’s poetry from the early, universally acclaimed, poems of Ulster country life – miracles Michael Longley has recently called these – through his sustained, often anguished, engagement with “the matter of Ireland” to the later poems with their wonderfully deepened and widened concerns, ranging masterfully as these poems do through “the country of the mind”, the worlds of mythology and literature, finding there repeatedly evidence of the marvellous but, a marvel in itself, presenting this evidence in language that remains resolutely earthy, grounded.

Suitable for readers and writers of young adult material. Put your questions to the panel and share your own personal experiences.

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Randall Mixed Up Stephen Hall: Fairy Tales Lunchtime Songs With Sam Porciello crescent arts centre Friday 13 June, 1pm Free admission

crescent arts centre Friday 13 June, 3-4pm Free admission

Catch your breath and relax . . . why not do something different this lunchtime? Sit with a few friends and experience the two-way process of storytelling.

A fun-packed workshop using dramabased games to allow children to create brand new angles on classic fairy tales and nursery rhymes.

Let Randall Stephen Hall distract you for an hour. Beyond the office, the telephone, deadlines or the usual routines of the day.

Step into a different space to enjoy poems, interactive songs, projected illustrations and stories, all with a local feel. And perhaps watch a drawing take shape as well.

Be amazed at what can be achieved in just one hour! Ages: 6 to 8

Suitable for adults and older people.

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Book Detectives With Sam Porciello Pauline Burgess crescent arts centre Friday 13 June, 4pm Free admission, ages 7-10

crescent arts centre Friday 13 June, 4pm tickets: £3

Put on your detectives hat and grab your magnifying glass we are going on a character investigation hunt and not one book will be left unturned. Activities will include, interviewing suspects and witnesses, finding and investigating clues. We need your detective skills to help us find the characters who have escaped their story books!

Are you mad about ponies? Then you'll love Pony Friends Forever, a brand new series of stories about the wonderful ponies who live at the Pony Palace, the best riding school ever. Pony Palace Camp is the first book in the Pony Friends Forever series and tells the story of cheeky Barney, gorgeous Biscuit and super-cool Kaz and the fun they have at summer camp.

Come along for cupcakes, badges, colouring and lots of pony-mad fun with author Pauline Burgess who'll tell you all about the adventures of the ponies and their riders at the Pony Palace.

Maybe, just maybe, you’ll find your new PFF – Pony Friends Forever! For all children who love ponies. ponyfriendsforever.com 38 friday 13 June

Beneath the Ice, The Horse’s Nest and Miracle Fruit, from Lagan Press, Belfast. Her Selected Poems was published in 2012 by Liberties Press, Dublin and a new collection, The Goose Tree, will be published in June 2014, also from Liberties Press.

OWEN O’NEILL: RED NOISE

crescent arts centre Friday 13 June, 7.45pm tickets: £8/£6

Three Voices Paula Cunningham, Jean Bleakney, Moyra Donaldson

crescent arts centre Friday 13 June, 6.30pm tickets: £6/£4

Red headed fiery poet would like to meet affluent audience with GSOH for an evening for bittersweet poetry and funny stories.

One night stands only, not interested in a long term relationship.

"O’Neill is a master of the poetry performance because he is not only a poet, but also a stand-up comedian and actor and uses these skills to great effect to bring his poems and stories vividly to life."

Glasgow Herald

Paula Cunningham’s collection Heimlich’s Manoeuvre was shortlisted for the FentonAldeburgh award for the best first collection in the UK and Ireland last year; several of the poems in the book have won awards and new poems were recently placed in the Gregory O’Donoghue International Poetry Prize and another shortlisted for the Hippocrates Prize.

Jean Bleakney was born in Newry in 1956 and has worked as biochemist, at-home mum and garden centre assistant. She has three poetry books from Lagan Press. Her most recent collection is ions (2011). She planted the thorn hedge at the Seamus Heaney Centre and is hoping to write about that, and much else, now that she has retired.

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The Belfast Book Festival Poetry Slam Crescent Arts Centre Friday 13 June, 9.30pm tickets: ÂŁ4

Purely Poetry presents The Belfast Book Festival Poetry Slam. Open to all poets, we invite you to 'take the mic' and enter our annual poetry slam competition. Share your work in front of a live and lively audience,

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with new readers always welcome.

To enter, just register at the start of the night; names will be drawn out at random, with each poet invited onstage to read by our resident emcee, Colin Dardis. You have three minutes in which to compete, our judges scoring on delivery and poetic quality and deciding who gets through to the next round. There's three rounds in all, with the outright winner declared Slam Champion 2014!

saturday 14 June

LitNet NI presents

Ways With Words Literature Development Day Crescent Arts Centre Saturday 14 June, 10.30am - 4pm tickets: £20

This development day for writers and other literature professionals opens with the inimitable Ian Sansom, creative writing teacher, broadcaster, freelance writer and author of the Mobile Library Mystery series talking about writing, reading and all things books!

A dynamic session with literary agents and publishers will follow exploring what literary agents and publishers are looking for, how to approach them, what their role is and how their role is changing within the current book marketplace. Meet agents Clare Alexander of Aitken Alexander and Lindsey Fraser of Fraser Ross Associates and publishers including Blackstaff Press Liberties Press and Carcanet Press.

The afternoon will focus on self-publishing with an inspiring and revealing session from Alison Baverstock, a hugely experienced publisher, trainer and writer on all aspects

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of publishing, marketing and reading. She is the author of The Naked Author – a Guide to Self-Publishing. The session will explore the publishing process in an informative, practical way and there will be lots of opportunities for questions. This event will feature Catherine Ryan Howard, writer and blogger from Cork whose selfpublishing adventures began with the release of her travel memoir, Mousetrapped, in 2010 and Belfast writer AGR Moore who self-published The Unseen Chronicles of Amelia Black in 2011 and a picturesque fable A Boy Named Hogg in 2012. Find out how they published without the backing of a mainstream publishing house and pick up tips on how to raise your profile, promote, market and sell your book.

Crafty Kids at Waterstones waterstones Saturday 14 June, 10am - 12noon free admission

Waterstones is getting crafty with a morning of fun for children (and grown-up kids). We'll have lots of things to make and do, and stories for when you're all crafted out. Come down, bring your friends and see if you can spot our surprise visitor!

Sight Reading for Writers

Lynne Segal Out of Time: The Pleasures &

Crescent Arts Centre Saturday 14 June, 2-4pm Tickets: £12/£10

Crescent Arts Centre Saturday 14 June, 4.45pm tickets: £6/£4

If you are a writer who would like to read your work in public, this workshop will help you develop the skills essential to lifting words off the page and communicating them effectively to an audience. You will be provided with texts and exercises as well as useful tips and techniques that will develop your sight reading ability and help you use your voice as a flexible and expressive instrument. Feel free to also bring along any of your own texts to practice reading aloud.

The population is ageing, globally, but this has done little to shift the cultural stigma around ageing. Rather the contrary, evident in the recent trashing of 'Baby Boomers' now entering old age. Unsurprisingly, old people themselves are inclined to disavow their own ageing, wary of the negativity attaching to it. Yet old age is full of paradoxes, when keeping track of the threads of a lifetime leaves us frequently time traveling between younger and older selves. Striking gender contrasts in patterns of ageing are also evident, especially in the life of desire. Meanwhile, the scope for affirming life, whether joyful or tragic, need not disappear with youth, any more than our ability for making trouble, resisting injustice, or for radical dreaming.

With Rosie Pelan

Rosie Pelan is a classically trained actor who now teaches many acting and voice classes at the Crescent Arts Centre and on the QUB Drama degree. She worked for over twenty years as a professional actor, playing many leading classical and modern roles and enjoys passing on the skills she has learned, particularly with regard to using the voice as an expressive instrument. She has read Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace and Bernard Mc Laverty's Grace Notes for BBC Radio Scotland as well as many short stories and dramas for BBC Radio 4.

Perils of Ageing

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Paul Muldoon

Elvis McGonagall

Crescent Arts Centre Saturday 14 June, 8pm Tickets: £8/£6

Crescent Arts Centre Saturday 14 June, 10pm tickets: £6/£4

We are delighted to welcome one of the Crescent Arts Centre's Patrons, Paul Muldoon, to the Belfast Book Festival this year. Paul Muldoon is Howard G.B. Clark ’21 Professor at Princeton University. Between 1999 and 2004 he was Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford. In 2007 he was appointed poetry editor of The New Yorker.

Paul Muldoon's main collections of poetry are New Weather (1973), Mules (1977), Why Brownlee Left (1980), Quoof (1983), Meeting The British (1987), Madoc: A Mystery (1990), The Annals of Chile (1994), Hay (1998), Poems 1968-1998 (2001), Moy Sand and Gravel (2002), Horse Latitudes (2006), Maggot (2010) and The Word on the Street (2013).

Stand-up poet, armchair revolutionary and recumbent rocker, Elvis McGonagall is the sole resident of The Graceland Caravan Park somewhere in the middle of nowhere where he scribbles verse whilst drinking malt whisky and listening to Johnny Cash.

Elvis is the 2006 World Slam Champion, the compere of the notorious Blue Suede Sporran Club and a regular guest of BBC Radio 4’s Saturday Live.

"funny, angry and tightly written....

McGonagall combines anger, polish and carefully crafted verse in a way which recalls John Cooper Clarke"

4-star The Scotsman

Elvis has written and performed for BBC’s Saturday Live, The Today Programme, The Culture Show, Arthur Smith’s Balham Bash, Zoe Ball’s Breakfast Show, A Good Read, The World Snooker Championships (BBC2), BBC Radio Scotland’s MacAulay & Co, Random Acts (C4), Café Direct and Greenwich Dance Agency. He was Glastonbury Festival Poetin-Residence 2007.

www.elvismcgonagall.co.uk

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Writing on Motherhood

Carolyn Jess-Cooke, Debi Gliori & Sinead Morrissey Crescent Arts Centre Saturday 14 June, 6pm tickets: £6/£4

Does motherhood impact on a woman's creativity? How do female writers with children manage to combine mothering and writing? Children's writer and illustrator Debi Gliori, award-winning Belfast poet and novelist Carolyn Jess-Cooke and Belfast Poet Laureate Sinead Morrissey speak frankly about the tensions between family life and creativity.

Sinead Morrissey is Lecturer in Creative Writing at Queen's University, Belfast and was the inaugural Belfast Poet Laureate. Her fifth poetry collection Parallax was awarded the prestigious TS Eliot prize in 2014.

Debi Gliori lives in Scotland. Debi is well known for both her picture books and her

novels for children and has been shortlisted for all the major prizes, including the Kate Greenaway Award (twice) and the Scottish Arts Council Award. Debi was the Shetland Islands’ first Children’s Writer-in-Residence. She published her first book in 1990 and since then has published so many successful books that she has lost count. She has written and illustrated No Matter What, The Trouble With Dragons, Stormy Weather, The Scariest Thing of All and, most recently What's the Time, Mr Wolf? for Bloomsbury.

Carolyn Jess-Cooke is a poet and novelist from Belfast. Her poetry has won many prizes and her first novel The Guardian Angel's Journey was published in 22 languages and was an international bestseller. Her second novel The Boy Who Could See Demons - about mental health in post-troubles Belfast - is being made into a film. Her new poetry collection BOOM! (Seren, 2014) is all about motherhood.

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FAMILY FUN DAY Crescent Arts Centre Saturday 14 June, 10am - 3pm free admission

For the 2nd year running, we'll be taking over the Crescent Park to bring you an event for all the family, young and old. With children's writers, storytelling, food and drink and loads and loads of books, the Book Festival invites you to enter the magical world of stories.

With entertainment, art workshops and much much more. Â We'll be publishing a specific running order for the events at the start of June, so keep an eye on the Book Festival website.

We are delighted that the Fine and Dandy Market will be celebrating their 1st Birthday with us on the day.

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sunday 15 June

Alan Johnson This Boy

A Memoir of a Childhood, in conversation with stephen walker Crescent Arts Centre sunday 15 June, 1pm tickets: £8/£6

The remarkable story of a woman struggling to raise her family in the slums of 1950s Notting Hill Gate; her daughter who fought to rescue her from illness and debt and her son, who went on to hold one of the highest political offices in the land. This Boy is one man’s story, but it is also a story of England and the West London slums which are so hard to imagine in the capital today. No matter how harsh the details, Alan Johnson writes with a spirit of generous acceptance, of humour and openness which makes his book anything but a grim catalogue of miseries.

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Secretary and Education Secretary. Until January 2011 he was Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer. He has been member of Parliament for Hull West and Hessle since 1997.

Stephen Walker became a BBC reporter in 1989. Born in England he was educated in Northern Ireland, Northampton and Portsmouth. He worked as an investigative reporter for Spotlight for 12 years and also worked as Assistant Editor. In 2007 he was series producer for the TV discussion programme Let’s Talk. In 2005 he was named the Northern Ireland Journalist of the Year. He became BBC Northern Ireland’s Political Reporter in 2009. Stephen is author of two books Forgotten Soldiers: The Irishmen Shot at Dawn (2007) and Hide and Seek: The Irish Priest in the Vatican who Defied the Nazi Command (2011).

"The British political book that most moved me this year is not a political book at all...that Johnson survived all this to tell the tale with style and humour – but no glib political conclusions –is thanks to his formidable sister Linda."

GUARDIAN

"..the best memoir by a politician you will ever read.."

THE TIMES

The Friday Tree Sophia Hillan Crescent Arts Centre sunday 15 June, 4.30pm tickets: £6/4

pen Points Press Launch Crescent Arts Centre sunday 15 June, 2.30pm free admission

Pen Points Press is a new Belfast-based poetry micropress, showcasing the best writing from poets within Northern Ireland. The events sees the launch of the press's first three publications: two pamphlets- Ross Thompson's Slumberland, Geraldine O'Kane's Quick Succession, and a poetry broadside from Christopher McLaughlin.

Hosted by editor Colin Dardis, our poets, each of whom are well known on the Belfast poetry scene, will each be reading a selection of their work.

Belfast 1955: our past was still their future.

Trolleybuses run in a leisurely way through sparse traffic, and lamplighters go about at night. Still, though Ulster’s eruption of 1969 is fourteen years away, all the seeds of that conflict are being sown. There is an uneasy, palpable tension in the air, yet, for the most part life seems ordered and calm. In this sleepy, pleasant world, Brigid Arthur, five, and her brother Francis, eleven, live right on the edge of town in a close circle of family and friends. But over that long hot summer, everything begins to change...

Sophia Hillan was born in Belfast and educated at St Dominic's High School and Queen's University, where she took her B.A. and M.A. in English Language and Literature, and her Ph.D on the work of Irish novelist and short-story writer Michael McLaverty. Beginning her career as a teacher of English at St. Dominic's, she then spent five years as the first Head of English at Dublin's pioneering Greendale School. While working at Carysfort College, under the direction of her former university tutor Seamus Heaney, she began her doctoral studies, and was awarded a Research Fellowship by Queen's University Belfast's Institute of Irish Studies. She went on to become its first woman Associate Director, and Director of the International Summer School in Irish Studies. Her biography of the Knight sisters, May, Lou and Cass: Jane Austen's Nieces in Ireland, was published by Blackstaff Press in 2011. sunday 15 june 49

More Tea Vicar? Ann Widdecombe in conversation with noel thompson

Crescent Arts Centre sunday 15 June, 3pm tickets: £8/£6

Dad`s Army Vicar Frank Williams invites you to join him for a hilarious afternoon of television nostalgia.

Everybody loves Dad’s Army. Even after 40 years the programme continues to pull huge viewing figures becoming one of the all-time classic ‘greats’ of television, also enjoying West-End success, a Royal Variety Performance and a national tour. David Croft and Jimmy Perry chose Frank to create the role of the wonderfully eccentric vicar who was always slightly tetchy as he tried to come to terms with the elderly platoon’s invasion of his beloved church hall. Join Frank as he celebrates a lifetime on Stage, TV, Film and the legendary BBCTV series.

In an entertaining trip down memory lane, Frank offers a unique glimpse behind the scenes and stories of the celebrated cast of Dad`s Army & a host of other TV classics such as Emergency Ward 10; All Gas & Gaiters; Morecambe & Wise; The Two Ronnie’s and many more. It’s a wonderful afternoon of television nostalgia and Frank will personally sign copies of his best-selling autobiography, Vicar to Dad`s Army.

“He tells of his craft with an infectious geniality.” Daily Telegraph

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Crescent Arts Centre sunday 15 June, 8pm tickets: £8/£6

With characteristic verve and integrity, Ann Widdecombe recalls her life and highlights the people and events that most influenced her along the way.

From her early family life in Singapore and her convent school days to her student ambitions at Birmingham and Oxford, and her long-serving years as an MP, this is the life story of one of our most outspoken and celebrated politicians. Offering unique insight into her time as a Minister in three Departments and the Shadow Cabinet in the 1990s, Ann also explains the roots of her conversion to Catholicism in 1993 and her deeply held views on abortion and gay marriage. Her memoirs reveal a singular personality who lives life to the full. From feisty and witty appearances on Have I Got News For You to her unforgettable and star-turning performances on Strictly Come Dancing, Ann has earned her place in the public's affections and has been heralded as a 'national living treasure' by the Guardian.

Also containing Ann's trenchant views on the Coalition, MPs' expenses and the state of the nation, this is a provocative and entertaining read. Frank, fearless and engaging, Ann's autobiography will delight her admirers and win her yet more fans.

Earth To Alice A Standup Poetry Show Written & performed by Alice McCullough

Crescent Arts Centre sunday 15 June, 9.30pm tickets: £6/£4

We are thrilled to present Alice McCullough.

A talented new voice and winner of the Belfast Book Festival Poetry Slam last year, Alice has gained recent success venturing into the realms of comedy, as she plays with the boundaries between spoken word, stand-up, storytelling and theatre. A diverse writer and performer, Alice has performed at festivals and events across N.I., Dublin, London and The Edinburgh Fringe, having supported talents such as Hollie McNish and Katherine Ryan, and is the host and founder of Belfast's new alternative spoken word showcase, 'RED PILL'.

"Beautiful, profound and funny - stunning new work from an exceptionally talented woman" URSULA BURNS

Deirdre Cartmill & Maria McManus Crescent Arts Centre sunday 15 June, 6pm tickets: £6/£4

Deirdre has published two poetry collections The Return of the Buffalo (Lagan Press, 2013) and Midnight Solo (Lagan Press, 2004). She received an ACES Award from the ACNI in 2011 spending a year with the Seamus Heaney Centre. She’s previously been shortlisted for a Hennessy Literary Award and been a finalist in the Scottish International Open Poetry Competition.

Her poems have appeared in many anthologies, magazines and journals. She holds an MA with Distinction in Creative Writing from Queen’s University. She’s an award winning screenwriter and has written for theatre, film, television and radio.

Maria's most recent work is We are Bone (Lagan Press 2013). A screenplay adaptation of the sequence Aill na Searrach; The Leap of the Foals, was developed in 2013 with NI Screen. Reading the Dog (Lagan Press 2006) her first collection of poetry, was runner up in the 2007 Strong Awards and was also short-listed for the 2007 Glen Dimplex New Writers Award. In 2005 she was awarded the inaugural Bedell Scholarship for Literature and World Citizenship, by the Aspen Writers’ Foundation, Colorado USA. She was awarded an MA with Distinction in English (Creative Writing) from Queen’s University Belfast.

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week long events Community Poetry Pillar

Writers In Schools

crescent arts centre all week free admission

Various Schools across Belfast all week free admission

Back by popular demand! We invite you to write your favourite lines of verse or even your own work on our community poetry pillar in the Crescent's reception area. You never know…your creative musings could be rubbing shoulders with one of our featured artists! For all to enjoy during the week of the festival…and beyond….

Local pupils from schools across Belfast are participating at this year's festival.

Featured authors will be visiting the schools to facilitate workshops in creative writing from short stories to poetry and even the odd Haiku!

To register your interest or for further information please contact Ann at outreach@crescentarts.org

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To register your interest or for further information please contact Ann at outreach@crescentarts.org

Fully Booked curated by Caroline Healy Re Root Anushiya Sundaralingam crescent arts centre 29 may - 28 june free admission

Both 'Root' and 'Re Root' share the connected notion of a 'self' in transition and the challenges of identity. In the work, fragile, delicate dresses, constructed from saree fabrics, woven and re-worked, indicate the complexity of past life and a shared history. Marks made, clothes worn, lives lived, experiences shared. These original sarees that have been passed through generations are given new life.

"After relocating from Sri Lanka to the UK in the late 1980s my art practice explored issues of belonging. I am concerned with how our relationship with the natural and cultural environment shapes our sense of self and place, and how, when our surroundings change, through displacement, whether by choice or not, we require unprecedented responses and adaption.

My practice is varied and includes two dimensional and three dimensional works.

I incorporate a diverse range of media to reflect the intricate and layered nature of belonging, identity and place."

ps2 gallery 9 - 14 June free admission

Fully Booked is a mixed-media, collaborative exhibition on the written word and all its forms. Text as art, books as sculpture, words as beauty; Fully Booked pushes the boundaries of how you perceive your reading material. Local, national and international artists to include Anthony Champa, Diana Champa, Suzanne Coates, Andrew Haire, Karishma Kusurkar, Kata Kiss and Jemma Robinson will be working collaboratively with writer Caroline Healy to showcase their work at the gallery space.

Launch event: Wednesday 11 June 2014 Readings from local writers and poets, Jan Carson, Michael Nolan, Gerard Brennan, Sheila McWade, Emma Must, Kelly Creighton and Caroline Healy throughout the programme. Keep an eye on Facebook and Twitter for details.

Caroline Healy is a writer, creative writing tutor and community arts facilitator. She recently completed her Masters at Queen’s University, Belfast at the Seamus Heaney Centre. Caroline is completing her second short story collection, The House of Water.

She is published by Bloomsbury Publishing.

For more information see carolinehealy.com

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festival extra Pierre Lemaitre Irène Crescent Arts Centre Friday 30 May, 7pm free admission

Translated from the French by Frank Wynne. The first Camille Verhœven investigation – a prequel to the acclaimed and bestselling Alex. For Commandant Verhœven life is beautiful: he is happily married, expecting his first child with the lovely Irène.

But his blissful existence is punctured by a murder of unprecedented savagery. Worse still, the press seem to have it in for him – his every move is headline news. When he discovers that the killer has killed before – that each murder is a homage to a classic crime novel – the fourth estate are quick to coin a nickname: The Novelist . . .

With both men in the public eye, the case develops into a personal duel, each hell-bent on outsmarting the other. There can only be one winner – whoever has the least to lose…

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Paul Charles no alibis Friday 6 June, 6.30pm free admission

No Alibis Bookstore is pleased to invite you to celebrate the launch of Paul Charles' latest novel, The Lonesome Heart is Angry.

What seems like a routine job for the matchmaker, Michael Gilmour, in a 1960s small Northern Irish town becomes something very much more when events take an unexpected turn. The brothers Kane have an idea for their matches that will set tongues wagging, light the fires of jealousy in more than one heart, and open the door to tragedy.

The Lonesome Heart is Angry explores life in a small town and the darker side of the human condition. It doesn't shy away from the gossip, the fear, the violence and desperation that can build up inside people and behind closed doors.

Paul Charles is a noted author of crime and music books. He works as a music agent and is based in London. New Island published his previous Castlemartin novel, The Last Dance, in 2012.

Something of Myself & others

Mary Kenny in conversation with Noel Thompson

BookSeller of Belfast

A film by Alessandra Celesia Crescent Arts Centre Mon 16 & Thu 19 June, 6:30pm tickets: £3

The staircases of John Clancy's terraced house are filled with hundreds of unsold volumes like a Noah's Ark of Knowledge telling the stories of a city that has known stormier times. Accompanied by a dyslexic, opera-loving punk the Bookseller of Belfast treads a new path through the pages yellowed by time and cigarette smoke.

John Clancy was a mythical figure in the Belfast book trade. His various shops in Smithfield and Royal Arcade served as a colossal repository of history and knowledge about the city, its writers and stories. The film is a Northern Ireland Screen financed project through the Landmark Documentary Scheme.

A Dumbworld Production Directed by Alessandra Celesia Produced by Cathie McKimm Executive Produced by John McIlduff

Crescent Arts Centre Monday 16 June, 8pm tickets: £8/£6

Something of Myself and Others is a fascinating collection of articles and reflections on the public and private life of one of Ireland’s best known journalists. Detailing memorable events in her life, as well as those she has witnessed in Ireland’s recent history, Mary Kenny recalls her experiences with humour and charm. In this collection of articles, some of which have appeared previously in a number of newspapers and magazines, Kenny reflects on the people she has known, the places she has been and the experiences that have shaped her. Something of Myself and Others is a wonderfully varied and entertaining read.

Mary Kenny is an author, journalist, broadcaster and public speaker: she has written for over 25 newspapers and magazines in London and Dublin and has developed in recent years a special interest in the relationship between Ireland and England, explored in biography of William Joyce, Lord Haw-Haw‚ Germany Calling and in her play about the private meeting between Winston Churchill and Michael Collins in 1921 Allegiance, as well as in a recent book is Crown and Shamrock: Love and Hate between Ireland and the British Monarchy which was used as background information for Queen Elizabeth’s historic visit to Ireland in May 2011. festival extra 55

Unravelling Oliver

Liz Nugent in conversation with David Torrans Crescent Arts Centre Wednesday 18 June, 8pm tickets: £6/£4 ‘A magnificent debut, compulsively readable. Unravelling Oliver delivers all it dares to deliver - a stunning, shocking and superb novel.’

Frank McGuinness

Oliver Ryan is a handsome and charismatic success story. He lives a life of enviable privilege and ease with his wife, Alice.

Enviable until, one evening after dinner, Oliver attacks Alice so viciously that he beats her into a coma.

Oliver is stunned by his own actions. In the aftermath, as everyone tries to make sense of this astonishing act of savagery, he tells his story. So do those whose paths he has crossed over five decades. What unfolds

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is both tragic and monstrous - a story of shame, envy, breath-taking deception and masterful manipulation.

Only Oliver knows what he had to do to get the life he craved, and to which he felt entitled.

But even he is in for a shock when the past finally catches up with him. Unravelling Oliver is an extraordinary story of psychological suspense and an enthralling portrait of a thoroughly modern monster.

In her early career Liz Nugent worked as a stage manager in theatres in Ireland and toured internationally. More recently, Liz has written extensively for radio and television drama including RTÉ’s Fair City. She has been shortlisted for the prestigious Francis McManus Short Story Award. She lives with her husband in her native Dublin.

Unravelling Oliver is her first novel.

Rala: A Life in Rugby Patrick ‘Rala' O’Reilly

Methodist College Belfast Thursday 19 June, 7:30pm tickets: £8/£6

Patrick ‘Rala’ O’Reilly has been bagman for the Irish rugby team for nearly twenty years. In that time, he’s witnessed many highs and lows. But for him rugby has always been about the people, the places and the experiences.

Here, with his own inimitable wit and humour, he shares with us his unique memories of his time spent at the very centre of Irish and Lions rugby.

From his early days with Terenure College RFC to touring with the Lions in 2009 and 2013, to pre-match traditions, pranks, iPod playlists and his love affair with Inishbofin, he tells a behind-the-scenes story of team spirit and friendship.

With anecdotes from Keith Wood, Brian O’Driscoll, Donncha O’Callaghan, Jamie Heaslip, Peter Clohessy, Paul O’Connell and others, Rala: A Life in Rugby gives an insight into the world of rugby – as never seen before.

"Even when I stopped being captain, I’d find my bags in my room when I arrived at the hotel, and my laundry hanging on the back of my door. He didn’t have to do that, but then there’s so much that he didn’t have to do, but he still did." BRIAN O'DRISCOLL

When the Neva Rushes Backwards

Lagan Press & Word of Mouth Poetry Collective Crescent Arts Centre Thursday 19 June, 8pm FREE ADMISSION

A bilingual anthology compiled and translated by Word of Mouth Poetry Collective.

"When the Neva Rushes Backwards presents poems of exciting exploration: of St Petersburg’s cultural presence in the 21st century, of its history and open wounds, of the labyrinth of intersecting voices of five poets and seven translators, and of a tradition reaching back to Akhmatova and beyond."

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin Professor (emeritus) School of English Trinity College Dublin "...a deeply engaged and engaging conversation between poets from dif- ferent lands and languages.”

Dr Frank Sewell, University of Ulster The Word of Mouth Poetry Collective was founded in 1991 by a group of women to help one another by the close reading of new poems and by giving critical commentary. In 1996 the collective published an anthology, Word of Mouth (Blackstaff ).

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