Mountains to Sea dlr Book Festival 11-14th September 2014

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Mountains to Sea dlr Book Festival

11-14th September 2014

 

Fine Writing      Fiction      Poetry      Workshops      AND Picnics!! 

Martin Amis / Lynn Barber / John Boyne / Lee Child / Eoin Colfer / Anthony Cronin / Sinéad Crowley / Vona Groarke / John Kelly / Paul Lynch / David Mitchell / Sinéad Morrissey / David Park / Don Paterson / Kamila Shamsie

These are a selection of authors appearing in the brilliant line up at this year’s Mountains to Sea dlr Book Festival incorporating the dlr Poetry Now International Poetry Festival.

Bert Wright, the primary curator of this year’s festival writes,
‘Book Festivals remind us that words emanate from a specific human source, a consciousness, an intellect that is right there in front of us. We see and hear them not through a digital scrim but up close and personal and both parties are immeasurably enriched in the process’.

The 1st event will be a special pre-festival reading & public interview with Martin Amis on Wednesday 27th August. The festival weekend includes over 40 events running over 3 nights.

Friday 12th September includes poetry from Vona Groarke & Don Paterson as well as a cabaret event with dlr Writer in Residence Colm Keegan; Murderous Maths with Kjartan Poskitt; a teenage Dylan Thomas-themed workshop (including a visit to THE POETRY SHED) and a stellar reading with John Boyne and Man Booker Prize Longlisted David Mitchell.

Saturday 12th September has workshops on poetry with Don Paterson and on writing with Jane Casey, Anna Carey & Patrick Freyne plus Irish songs and film clips with students from TG Lurgan. Readings include John Kelly & Paul Lynch; Kamila Shamsie & Xiaolu Guo and a public interview with Lynn Barber. Family events include THE DAHL FACTOR, a superhero comic session with illustrator Alan Nolan AND the magical Great Teddy Bear Library Sleepover on Saturday night. THE IRISH TIMES POETRY NOW AWARD will also be presented that day and poet Michael Symmons Roberts makes his Irish debut shortly afterwards. Saturday’s finale event will be the LETTERS LIVE event in the Pavilion theatre where an array of actors, authors and musicians, will be reading ‘correspondence deserving of a wider audience’.

Workshops on Sunday 14th September include fiction with Mia Gallagher, a Haiku-writing walk with Anatoly Kudryavitsky and a masterclass on illustration with picture book artist Yasmeen Ismail. For the family, there’s a Where’s Wally Library Hunt; 2 Picture Book Picnics and a fun double Laureate event with Eoin Colfer & Aneirín Karadog. The SHINE/STRONG POETRY AWARD READING takes place, David Park & Sinéad Morrisey chat about poetry and it’s a big night for Crime Fiction fans! Liz Nugent, Jane Casey, Karen Perry, Sinéad Crowley & Lee Child will all be reading and TV fans get to meet screenwriters Jed Mercurio and Michael Hirst! For music and poetry fans, we round up a perfect weekend with Anthony Cronin reading his epic RMS Titanic poem with a thrilling music score, specially created and performed by Donal Lunny.