Belfast Book Fesival 2017 Belfast Book Festival 2017 | Page 22
HEAT SIGNATURE
SIOBHAN CAMPBELL
BOOK LAUNCH
We are delighted to have Siobhan Campbell launch her new
collection of poems, Heat Signature at this year’s book festival.
This intelligent and provocative collection, from the Irish poet, resists
rapture and/or easy solutions, it rather glories in difficulty: the cussed,
intractable nature of humanity, of a natural world beset with swarming
bees, weeds and feral horses. There is a beautiful balance throughout
between the forthright and the ironical.
Heat Signature continues her fascination with her homeland in all its
incarnations, both ancient and modern.
4PM // FREE EVENT // NO ALIBIS
ATTACK OF THE FIFTY FOOT WOMEN
CATHERINE MAYER
Not a single country anywhere in the world has achieved gender equality. In
more than a few countries, progress for women has stalled or is reversing.
While campaigning for the Women’s Equality Party, she noticed that many
people found it hard to envisage a gender-equal world. With reference to
her insightful, revelatory, often hilarious, and hugely inspiring book, she will
discuss this world and share inside views and experiences.
A former editor at large of TIME Magazine and co-founder of the Women’s
Equality Party, Mayer was named on the Evening Standard’s 2016
Progress 1000 list comprising of London’s most influential people.
In association with Women’s Equality Party Northern Ireland branch you are
warmly invited to stay on after the talk to meet Catherine more informally.
6PM // £7 | £5 // CRESCENT ARTS
Sat 10 Jun