I’m looking forward to sharing the stage with Rachel Mennies at the Borris Festival of Writing and Ideas. We will be appearing together at the Eason tent on Sunday 12th around 1:30pm. Rachel is an American poet from Philadelphia and teaches writing at Carnegie Mellon University. She is the author of The Glad Hand of God Points Backwards and No Silence in the Fields. She blogs at her web site RachelMennies.com.
You can see my profile at the Festival of Writing and Ideas Web Site here but here’s a screenshot below.
You can find out more about the Festival of Writing Ideas, which is going into its 5th year. I’m delighted to have attended every year since it began and even more delighted that I am on the billing. Headlining the festival are Martin Amis and Chrissie Hynde amongst other huge names. The festival is being extended to Friday evening as well and I could happily spend the whole of it in the Ballroom venue for the three talks that are going on. The first is about Israel and its moral compass. This is something I am interested in as I feel deeply uncomfortable with Zionism and what it is being used to justify today. After that is a reading of Séamus Heaney’s Aeneid Book VI. Following that is Chrissie Hynde, which I’m sure will be very interesting.