Writers @ the University of Dundee
Andrew Philip
Date/Time: Wednesday 20th October 1-2pm
Venue
: Dalhousie 2G14
FREE
Andrew Philip’s first poetry collection, The Ambulance Box, heralds the arrival of a strong and passionate new voice. Striking a fine balance between thought and feeling, Andrew Philip’s poetry is by turns lyrical, allusive and direct; subtly experimental and unafraid of traditional form. Above all, it is intense, tender, inquisitive writing, alive to the wonder as well as the hurt of the world we inhabit.
At the heart of this book, dedicated to Philip’s first child, who died
shortly after birth, is a deeply moving exploration of loss and discovery.
In poems of unsentimental and unsettling beauty, The Ambulance Box
examines the sudden transformations of grief.
Come and hear this stunning new poet read from his first collection.
Alan Warner
Date/Time: Wednesday 27th October, 4-6pm
Venue: Baxter Suite, room 1.36, 1st Floor, Tower Building
FREE
Alan Warner, recently longlisted for the Booker Prize, returns to Dundee to read from his striking new novel Stars in the Bright Sky.
The six Sopranos of Warner’s 1998 novel reunite at Gatwick Airport to improvise a reunion getaway. Superbly sensitive the rhythms of everyday speech and crammed with the paraphernalia of contemporary consumer living, this riotous and subtly satirical comedy of youthful (over)exuberance confirms Warner as a brilliant talent.
Alan Warner was nominated by Granta magazine as one of twenty 'Best of Young British Novelists' and won critical acclaim with his novels, The Sopranos, Morvern Callar, These Demented Lands, The Man Who Walks and The Worms Can Carry Me To Heaven.
Cynthia Rogerson
Date/Time: Wednesday 17 November, 5-6pm
Venue: Dalhousie Building, 2F15
FREE
Cynthia Rogerson is a Californian living in Ross-shire. Her first novel, Upstairs in the Tent, was published in 2001; her short stories and poems have been short-listed for competitions, anthologised, published in literary magazines and broadcast on BBC radio. In 2008 she won the VS Pritchett short story award. She is the co-director of Moniack Mhor, an Arvon Writing Centre in Inverness-shire.
Cynthia's second novel, Love Letters from my Deathbed, was published in 2007; her new novel set in the Scottish Highlands, I Love You Goodbye, `captures the exhilaration, confusion and frustration of relationships’ so come and hear her read from it and ask her about her writing life.
James Robertson, Brian Johnstone and Norman Watson will also be appearing at the Literary Dundee Festival 27-28 October 2010. For further information please see The Dundee Literary Festival website.
Posted: 7 October 2010
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