Over the course of the 2016 Edinburgh International Book Festival we have been very fortunate to cover some interesting, inspiring and hugely enjoyable events. To round off this year’s coverage, here’s a fourth report from Charlotte Square. Don Paterson’s long…
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Call it a privilege, or a challenge, or an hour in the magnetic presence of a poetic force. Lemn Sissay’s capacity crowd at the Edinburgh International Book Festival saw an hour of captivating warmth, where the cost of a ticket was…
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There was an easy, reverential air in the Corner Theatre on Sunday evening where a packed audience gathered to hear from Jim Haynes. It seems to sit easy enough on Haynes’s shoulders that his various Edinburgh endeavours of the 1950s…
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Award Ceremony, Edinburgh International Book Festival, 18 August 2016 ___ As a celebration of poetry, of life and of Scotland the 2016 Edwin Morgan Poetry Award ceremony carved out a beautiful space in Charlotte Square, for an hour of perfect…
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After 800 years there is indeed plenty left to be said about Magna Carta, just as the festival programme promised there would be. To a packed audience, the charismatic David Carpenter outlined his key findings about a document that has…
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To open Edinburgh Napier’s 2015 Edinburgh International Book Festival blog, an event that took myth and storytelling as its starting points. John Burnside and Jón Kalman Stefánsson explored their own work, and asked why authors turn to older cultural forms for inspiration.…
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