LORE & The Dark Room: Rachel Seiffert

Not to be missed!

This Saturday author RACHEL SEIFFERT introduces West Side Cinema's screening of LORE, the film based on her Booker-nominated novel, THE DARK ROOM. And she will be there at the end too for a Q&A.

Earlier in the day, Rachel will be leading a writing workshop in Stromness Library on Character & Story. The workshop is currently fully subscribed, but we may start a reserve list if more folk express an interest. E-mail: alisonmiller67@btinternet.com

Bringing Rachel to Orkney along with the film has been a collaboration between Orkney Library & Archive Reader in Residence, West Side Cinema and The George Mackay Brown Fellowship.

See details of the screening at the top of the poster.

And click on the links below for more information about the film, the novel and its author.

Rachel Seiffert, The Dark Room, Lore

WATER WATER EVERYWHERE: National Poetry Day

Thursday 
3 October 
2013

National 
Poetry 
Day


The theme this year is WATER.

There will be an Open Mic Session

Orkney Library & Archive Foyer

Thursday 3 October

6.45 pm

Bring your own poems with a watery theme to read and favourite poems of other poets

Fisherman 

The west flushed, drove down its shutter
And night sealed all.

Peaceful the air, the sea.
A quiet scattering of stars.

The great ocean
Makes the gentlest of motions about the turning world,
A thin wash through the pebbles.

No moon this night.
The creels lie still on their weeded ledges.

Not a sound, except far inland
The yelp of a tinker's dog.

Three days ago a storm blazed here, and drowned
Jock Halcrow among his lobsters.

There's one croft dark to-night in the lighted valley.

George Mackay Brown

from The Collected Poems of George Mackay Brown edited by Archie Bevan and Brian Murray

National Poetry Day 2013