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