Belfast Book Fesival 2017 Belfast Book Festival 2017 | Page 32

LOOKING FOR LEGENDS
LISA CAREY & ALAN MCMONAGLE
An event for fans of epic, character-driven novels: two writers explore
different sides of Irish life in two very different novels.
In Lisa Carey’s Stolen Child, a community is in decline and its way of
life is under threat. But when a dazzling stranger comes to the island,
a complicated web of betrayal, fear and desire culminates in one
shocking night that will change the island forever.
In Alan McMonagle’s Ithaca, 11 year old Jason is preoccupied with
the thoughts of a Da he never knew whilst his vodka-swilling Ma is busy
entertaining her latest boyfriend. Jason escapes to the Swamp where
he meets a girl, a being as lost as himself, and with even less
regard for reality.
7PM // £6 | £4 // WATERSTONES
THE BEST NEW BRITISH
AND IRISH POETS 2017
Among the 50 poets and poems selected by Luke Kennard for inclusion in
The Best New British and Irish Poets 2017, are five Northern Irish poets:
Emma Must, Joe Lines, Susannah Dickey, Matthew Rice and Geraldine
O’Kane. Come along and hear these Northern Irish poets read their poems
together with a short selection of other new work from each of them.
The anthology includes a diverse and lively group of writers from across
these isles: some of the most interesting new voices writing in the English
language today.
8PM // £5 // CRESCENT ARTS
Mon 12 Jun