Christopher Whyte’s new poetry collection, Mo Shearmon / What I Have to Say, will be launched at the Gaelic Books Council shop during Independent Bookshop Week 2023!
Christopher Whyte is an acclaimed writer, poet and translator, working in both Scottish Gaelic and English. His newest collection is published by Francis Boutle Publishers.
The multi-faceted poem ‘Mo Shearmon’ encompasses many subjects and symbols, reflecting what the poet has to say, and how he says it. It is a playful, unconventional, mischievous poem, never allowing the reader to know what comes next.
Also included in this collection are poems that move the reader, representing different places and people, friends and enemies together, through a European viewpoint that comes naturally to Christopher Whyte’s work.
Thig còmhla rinn airson madainn de dh’òrain Ghàidhlig, geamannan agus pupaidean!
Join us for a morning of Gaelic stories with songs, games and puppets!
Session 1 (10:00 AM – 10:45 AM) – Children aged 0-5
Session 2 (11:00 AM – 11:45 AM) – Children aged 0-5
*Please register for tickets using your child’s name. Parents do not need to register tickets for themselves.*
Thig còmhla rinn airson madainn de dh’òrain Ghàidhlig, geamannan agus pupaidean!
Join us for a morning of Gaelic stories with songs, games and puppets!
Session 1 (10:00 AM – 10:45 AM) – Children aged 0-5
Session 2 (11:00 AM – 11:45 AM) – Children aged 0-5
*Please register for tickets using your child’s name. Parents do not need to register tickets for themselves.*
Celebrate the launch of Na Peataichean a Thàinig Gu Sràid Phalmerston / The Pets That Came to Palmerston Street! An English-Gaelic children’s picture book that is fun, gentle, and full of life, written by Laurie Stanley-Blackwell, illustrated by Teresa MacKenzie, and translated into Gaelic by Effie Rankin.
This story is about Henry and Abby who want to own a dog. They soon find themselves sharing their home at Palmerston Street with an assortment of pets. The children and their Mom learn that the heart can always expand to make more room for love.
The book also includes a QR code with a link to a recording of the Gaelic version of this story read by Effie Rankin for parents and learners.
This is a Zoom livestream of the launch in Antigonish, Nova Scotia (at 2pm Halifax), connecting Gaelic speakers around the world as part of Nova Scotia’s Gaelic Awareness Month.
Thig còmhla rinn airson madainn de dh’òrain Ghàidhlig, geamannan agus pupaidean!
Join us for a morning of Gaelic stories with songs, games and puppets!
Session 1 (10:00 AM – 10:45 AM) – Children aged 0-5
Session 2 (11:00 AM – 11:45 AM) – Children aged 0-5
*Please register for tickets using your child’s name. Parents do not need to register tickets for themselves.*
Join us at Wee Write for Gaelic stories with songs, games and puppets with Linda Macleod and Muncaidh!
Suitable for children aged 0-5.
Join us at Wee Write for Gaelic stories with songs, games and puppets with Linda Macleod and Muncaidh!
Suitable for children aged 0-5.
Join Ruaraidh G. MacIlleathain (Roddy Maclean) at Aye Write book festival where he will talking about his book Cha Till Mise (‘I will not return’), a splendidly researched and grippingly presented history in Gaelic of the Arctic Convoys of 1941–45.
Ruaraidh G. MacIlleathain has gathered material to give a detailed and illuminating analysis of the Russian Convoys. He tells of the commodores who came out of retirement, risking their lives to navigate convoys to Murmansk and Archangel; the doctors who diced with death, jumping from one ship to another in rough seas to administer crucial medical aid; the astonishing behaviour of Adolf Hitler belittling his Kriegsmarine admirals and captains, making them reticent to engage with the Royal Navy in December 1942; the rescue ships which pulled freezing survivors from the ice-cold Arctic waters. Cha Till Mise shares the story of those who, despite their fears, sailed in these convoys.
This will be a bilingual event presented in both Gaelic and English.
Tickets cost £6.72.
Beth Frieden will be launching her poetry pamphlet, Acair san Talamh / Anchor in the Land, published by Stewed Rhubarb Press, at Aye Write book festival.
In Acair san Talamh / Anchor in the land, Beth Frieden’s debut pamphlet of poems moves back and forth across the Atlantic to explore family and nature with humour and curiosity. Written in Scottish Gaelic and English by an American immigrant to Scotland, these are poems that thrill in the wild and the intimate.
From the forests of New England to the tenements of Glasgow, these are intensely felt and finely honed poems of adventure, motherhood, dislocation and relocation; alive to the personal, political and linguistic questions that our homes ask of us.
Beth Frieden is a poet and an actress, and a mother. She grew up in the US and moved to Scotland in 2008, where she learned Gaelic. She writes in both English and Gaelic now, and received a New Scottish Writers Award in 2021 from the Scottish Book Trust, in association with the Gaelic Books Council.
This will be a bilingual event, with readings in both Gaelic and English.
Chaired by Meg Bateman.
Tickets cost £6.72.
Thig còmhla rinn airson madainn de dh’òrain Ghàidhlig, geamannan agus pupaidean!
Join us for a morning of Gaelic stories with songs, games and puppets!
Session 1 (10:00 AM – 10:45 AM) – Children aged 0-5
Session 2 (11:00 AM – 11:45 AM) – Children aged 0-5
*Please register for tickets using your child’s name. Parents do not need to register tickets for themselves.*
