Sunday 8 March 2009
5pm
Migvie Church, Tarland
Poetry with Sheena Blackhall and Gerard Rochford
Sunday 8 March 2009
7pm
Left Bank, Tarland
Poetry with Kenneth Steven and Douglas W. Gray
Monday 23 March 2009
7pm
Station Hotel, Stonehaven
Writing Workshop with Magi Gibson
Friday 27 March 2009
7pm
Salmon Bothy, Portsoy
Viking Poetry: Ian Crockatt's Skald
Sunday 29 March 2009
2pm
Brander Library, Huntly
Renga Workshop with Colin Will
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Wordfringe Spring Events
March 2009
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Kenneth Steven and Douglas W. Gray
Sunday 8 March 2009
7pm
Left Bank, Tarland
(map)
Admission £5 (£3 concession)
or buy a combined ticket for this event and the reading earlier this evening by
Sheena Blackhall and Gerard Rochford for £8 (£5
concession)
To reserve tickets, please email your name and requirements to
reservations@wordfringe.co.uk
One of Scotland's most popular poets, Dunkeld-based Kenneth Steven, well-known to
audiences in the North-East, appears alongside one of our finest local poets, Douglas
W. Gray.
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Kenneth Steven is a poet, children's author and writer of both full-length
and short fiction. He's also well known as a translator from the Scandinavian languages,
particularly Norwegian. He's first and foremost a poet; seven of his collections
have been published to date and a volume of selected poems appeared in December
of 2007 from Peterloo. He's published a number of picture books and a first novel,
The Santa Maria, for children, and three novels concerning the land comprise
A Highland Trilogy.
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Douglas W. Gray lives in Cove Bay; founder member of the Dead Good Poets,
former editor of poetry magazines Storm and Spume, published widely.
Awards include: second prize in the Northwords Open Poetry Competiton 1998, first
prize in the Feile Filiochta Open Poetry Competiton and the Irish Times Perpetual
Trophy 2001, second placed in the Scottish International Poetry Competition 2003,
and winner of the Ayr 800 Open Poetry Competition 2005.
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