StAnza, Scotland’s International Poetry Festival, has announced headline names for next year’s 21st anniversary festival ahead of National Poetry Day on September 28.
The annual festival will take place from March 7 until March 11 in St Andrews.
Among the headline poets appearing at next year's annual festival is Sinéad Morrissey, who last week won the prestigious Forward Prize for Poetry and is a former Belfast Poet Laureate and T.S. Eliot prize winner.
She is joined by former Scots Makar Liz Lochhead and Scottish poet and jazz musician Don Paterson who will be in conversation with Marie-Elsa Bragg.
Also on the programme for 2018 is Gillian Allnutt, who was awarded The Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry earlier this year, Tara Bergin, winner of the Seamus Heaney First Collection Prize in 2014 and up and coming Scottish poet William Letford.
StAnza traditionally focuses on two themes which interweave with each other to give each annual festival its own unique flavour.
Next year’s themes are The Self and Borderlines and StAnza will also have a focus on young people as part of Scotland’s Year of Young People.
Dozens of poets will be taking part in StAnza, along with many musicians, visual artists and filmmakers.
www.stanzapoetry.org
Scottish rock band Mogwai have announced Crossing The Road Material as the next single to be lifted from their new album ‘Every Country’s Sun’.
The album has received warm reviews.
Every Country’s Sun is the highest charting record from Mogwai’s discography so far, reaching No.6 in the Official UK Albums Chart.
On October 3, Mogwai will play live as part of BBC Radio 6 Music Live alongside artists including Robert Plant, alt-J, Morrissey and Loyle Carner.
This performance will mark 20 years since the band recorded their first Maida Vale session for John Peel in 1996.
Mogwai have a major world tour starting in Oslo on October 10.
The tour takes in dates in Europe and North America, before wrapping up with a performance at London’s O2 Academy Brixton on 15 December, followed by a show at The SSE Hydro, Glasgow on December 16.
www.mogwai.co.uk
The Document Festival has unveiled its 2017 programme.
The opening film of the festival, which runs from October 19-22 is Gulîstan, Land of Roses (Zaynê Akyol, Canada/Germany, 2016).
The festival, based mainly at Glasgow's CCA, it will feature unseen films from the banned 11th annual Beijing Independent Film Festival.
Filmmaker Fan Popo, who will participate in a Q&A after the screening of his film The VaChina Monologues (China, 2013), which chronicles ten years of the sometimes banned, often censored performances of Eve Ensler’s play The Vagina Monologues and its vital role in encouraging people to find their voice.
A Filmless Festival (Wo Wang, China, 2015) showcases the threats faced by organisers of cultural events.
Festival Coordinator, Eileen Daily said, “In this, Document’s 15th year and a year of unpredicted and unprecedented turmoil we see it as our duty to interrogate the headlines and give a platform to issues which are lost in the noise."
www.documentfilmfestival.org
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