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    Quines Cast: Live

    Wednesday 17 August 20:30 - 22:00

    Quines Cast: Live Book
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    The hosts of brand new podcast Quines Cast bring us an evening of feminist thought, music, theatre and literature to provide retreat, renewal and solidarity for women and other marginalised genders. In a special Book Festival event, join hosts Caitlin...
     

    Kathleen Jamie & Don Paterson: Memories and Meltwater

    Saturday 20 August 17:30 - 18:30

    Kathleen Jamie & Don Paterson: Memories and Meltwater Book
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    Join us to welcome back two of the most gifted writers of their generation. Kathleen Jamie is the virtuosic poet and essayist named as Scotland’s fourth Makar last year. Working in English and Scots, Jamie’s work spans the personal and the natural...
     

    Hollie McNish & Joelle Taylor: Taboo-Busting Poets at Work

    Tuesday 23 August 19:00 - 20:00

    Hollie McNish & Joelle Taylor: Taboo-Busting Poets at Work Book
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    Ted Hughes Award-winning poet Hollie McNish’s irreverent book, Slug, brings a focus on diverse topics including grief, the body and anti-masturbation pants. Joelle Taylor’s C+nto & Othered Poems won the 2021 T S Eliot Prize for its examination of...
     

    Hannah Lavery: Scotland, You’re No’ Mine

    Friday 26 August 12:15 - 13:15

    Hannah Lavery: Scotland, You’re No’ Mine Book
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    Hannah Lavery has had such a seismic effect on Scotland’s literary culture that it’s hard to believe her new book, Blood Salt Spring, is her debut collection. A thrilling writer on the stage as well as on the page, her plays The Drift and Lament for...
     

    Sabrina Mahfouz: Notes on the British Empire

    Sunday 28 August 19:30 - 20:30

    Changed Sabrina Mahfouz: Notes on the British Empire Book
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    Sabrina Mahfouz has often experienced the sly questioning underneath much of British society’s treatment of her: as someone of Middle Eastern heritage, can she be trusted? Confronting what’s at play here, These Bodies of Water takes us to the Middle...