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Litfest lines up some outstanding talent
By Adrian
Mullen
LASHINGS of literary gems are promised at this year’s Litfest
with a range of outstanding British and international writers on the
bill.
Starting tomorrow (Saturday) and Sunday and running over two
weekends (also November 15/16) at Lancaster’s Dukes Theatre, the
festival focuses on the nature of memory with two central themes:
slavery and remembrance.
From the new energy of the inter-cultural scene, to intellectual
and political writers from the hilarious, gutsy and brightest new
talents in the literary world, Litfest aims to make its audiences
sit up and think.
And once again it pulls out all the stops.
Whitbread Award winner Paul Farley is one of the top attractions
and best-selling Saudi Arabian author Turki al-Hamad makes a rare
British visit to the Litfest line-up.
His novel Adama, which is the first of a trilogy, is deemed as
the most explosive book to come out of the Middle East for
years.
Novelist Bernice Rubens reads from her new tome The Sergeant’s
Tale, set a year before the Israeli War of Independence in 1947, and
outstanding writer Maggie Gee, whose Orange Prize-nominated novel
The White Family tackled racism within a British family, will read
with both Reubens and al-Hamad.
Popular poetry doesn’t come much better than from the creative
mind of Adrian Mitchell, one of the country’s foremost and funniest,
and for this year’s festival he is joined by Litfest favourite Rita
Ann Higgins, and Kurdish poet Choman Hardi.
Going places Cumbrian poet Jacob Polley makes an appearance, as do Lancaster-based novelists Carol Birch and George Green, and from across the Atlantic, New York word artist Ainsley Burrows and Ghanaian poet Nii Ayikwei Parkes team up for a mesmerising evening, packed with poetic energy.
- For full Litfest details and tickets, contact the Dukes box
office on 01524-598500.
7:50am Friday 7th November 2003
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