Nairn Book & Arts Festival

This is local prize-winning poet Eileen Carney Hulme’s third appearance at the festival. With one poetry collection Stroking The Air published in 2005 and a forthcoming collection The Space Between Rain to be published this year, Eileen will be reading a selection of poems from both books. In previous years she has delighted audiences with poems that encompass the landscape of the heart, exploring physical and spiritual connections with a natural lyrical ability.

Donald MacArthur Ker published a book of short stories Horses, stones, wrecked cars, in 2004 and a book of poetry and photographs The Differences Between Women And Men At Funerals In Lethen Nairnshire  in 2009.  He was born on the Arr Farm, Lethen on the 24th of May, l944 and has always been pleased to share this birthday with Queen Victoria and Bob Dylan but is sorry that they were not lucky enough to also be born in Lethen.

Together they will tell stories and read poems that are love letters, fan mail, tributes to some of their favourite things; places, creatures, relationships, memories, wanderings, bad luck turning into good luck, secondhand boots, angels, intimate spaces, hieroglyphs, old dogs and grasshoppers…