Borders unveils programme
Posted April 9, 2010 5:22 pm by Andrew Martin | Permalink
The Brewin Dolphin Borders Book Festival has announced the programme for its Melrose long weekend in June. As usual it is a busy few days under the marquees in Harmony Garden with a good sprinkling of media-friendly ticket-selling names. Among the Scottish poets making an appearance are “Poet of the Year” Tom Leonard, STAnza’s Brian Johnstone, Edinburgh Makar Ron Butlin and Festival regular Jackie Kay with her autobiography Red dust road. Scottish masters of prose present include John Aberdein with his award-winning Strip the willow, and Andrew Greig with his tribute to Norman MacCaig, At the loch of the green corrie. There’s also the announcement of the annual Scottish Arts Council awards, more properly named the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book Awards. The National Library of Scotland is sponsoring the visit by the very great, but sadly not Scottish, Hilary Mantel. If only her masterly trip to the early 16th century for Wolf Hall had taken her to the court of the Stewarts …