Voices of the World at Abriachan Hall, feat. The Bookshop Band

Date/Time
Date(s) - Thu 12th Sep, 2024
8:00pm - 10:30pm

Location
Abriachan ViIlage Hall, Inverness-shire, ,

Join us at Abriachan Hall for an evening of international poetry and prose, woven together with music from The Bookshop Band

Enjoy a glass of wine, sit back and let the words reach you from poets and writers with roots in Gaelic, Irish, English, Tamil, Māori and Ukrainian. The readings will be accompanied by The Bookshop Band, whose folk songs are the musical outpouring of the band’s own response to books they have read, creating the perfect complement to this international literary celebration.

 

Confirmed writers include:

Phrases: New Poets in Translation Ukraine/Scotland residents: Rebecca Ferrier, Iryna Kupchynska, Robbie MacLeòid and Ilya Rudiyko

Co-chànan/Comhtheanga Scottish/Irish Gaelic residents: Peter Mackay/ Pàdraig MacAoidh and Eoin P. Ó Murchú

Island to Island Aotearoa (New Zealand) residents: essa may ranapiri and Jenni Fagan

Kavya Prize Winner: Q Manivannan

With grateful thanks to our residency funders and partners

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Tickets are £12 each and include a complimentary drink on arrival, then BYOB! There will also be an opportunity to purchase books from the writers taking part in Moniack Mhor’s international residency.  

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