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Word Express – from Istanbul via Athens to Edinburgh — EMERGING WRITERS ON A TRANS-EUROPEAN ODYSSEY

Edinburgh International Book Festival

The Word Express project has taken young writers on literary journeys through the Balkans and South-east Europe. In this event, six poets involved in the project give a special performance. Come and hear Gokçenur Ç and Efe Duyan from Turkey; Katerina Iliopoulou and Yannis Isidorou from Greece; Marko Poga?ar from Croatia; and Raman Mundair and Ryan Van Winkle from Scotland in this truly international event.

Part of our After The Wall: The New Europe series of events.

In association with Literature Across Frontiers and the Scottish Poetry Library

lidija haas – stops the presses with her new chapbook

al  kennedy – novelist, comedian, rude and wonderful.

nick holdstock — they call him “strong meat”.

ryan van winkle – short poems, long stories.

Music:
Earl Grey and the Loose Leaves – A brawling bar-room  blues band that sounds like Captain Beefheart oan the train over tae Howlin’ Wolf’s hoose fur a bevvy and a brace with Sonny Terry and the Mississippi Sheiks. Contagious.

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part of The Forest Fringe “Secret Festival”

In an intimate poetry performance in a Red Room. There’s a bed. A snifter of port. Some tea and  biscuts. Art work. Soundscapes by Ragland and, of course, some poems.

Live and Kicking in the Spiegeltent! Check the HYPE!

WORDS:

Ryan Van Winkle – Reader in Residence at the Scottish Poetry Library

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Surprise Book Festival Guests

Music From ::::::::

Withered Hand – intense, eccentric, bittersweet and very wry original songs.
The Sea, The Sea — lyrical lushness from Jed Milroy and Hailey Beavis featuring bouncing bluegrass licks and double bass band.

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Black Diamond Express ‘are like the fastest train of the Lehigh Valley Railroad… a nine-piece band soaked in poetry, myth and bourbon.’ (Mark Edmundson, The List). The Black Diamond Express live and perform in Edinburgh.