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Friday 23rd February
8.00pm, Ballymoney Town Hall
Readings by
Colin Bateman
and John Connolly
Join two of Ireland’s best-selling
authors reading from their
latest work.
Colin Bateman is a best selling novelist and
screenwriter who came to international
prominence with the publication of Divorcing
Jack in 1995. Since then, he has written thirteen
best selling novels, including Empire State,
Turbulent Priests and Driving Big Davie. He
created and wrote the hit BBC1 series Murphy's
Law starring James Nesbitt and has also produced
a series of Murphy's Law novels.
John Connolly began his writing career as a
freelance journalist for The Irish Times, to which
he continues to contribute. His first novel,
Every Dead Thing, was published in 1999 and
introduced the character of Charlie Parker, a
former policeman hunting the killer of his wife
and daughter. Other books in the Charlie Parker
series are Dark Hollow, The Killing Kind, The
White Road and The Black Angel. John will read
from The Unquiet, the latest novel in the Parker
series, due to be published in April 2007.
Admission: £5.00/conc. & students £3.00
Information: Cultural Development Office
at the Coleraine campus on (028) 7032 4449
or j.mackle@ulster.ac.uk
Saturday 24th February
10.00am - 12.30pm, Room L116, Coleraine campus
Filling The
White Page
A Creative Writing
Workshop with Kate
Newmann
This workshop will focus
on a practical approach
to writing poetry. It will
explore what can be achieved in a very short
time, and the approaches that participants
can take away from the workshop to develop
their own writing. Kate says “The workshop
welcomes everyone, people who are writing
and those who are only thinking of writing,
because in the final analysis all of us have
something important to say which no one else
can say on our behalf.” Kate Newmann has
published the Dictionary of Ulster Biography,
a collection of poetry, The Blind Woman in the
Blue House and a CD, How Well Did
You Love?
Presented in association with the University
of Ulster Alumni Association.
Admission: £5.00/conc. & students £3.00.
Advance booking required (Max 15 participants)
Information: Cultural Development Office
at the Coleraine campus on (028) 7032 4449
or j.mackle@ulster.ac.uk
Saturday 24th February
1.30pm, Room H215, Coleraine campus
A Lunchtime Reading
with Kate Newmann
Musical accompaniment by Bill Campbell
Kate Newmann will read from her collection
The Blind Woman in the Blue House and the
CD How Well Did You Love? as well as some
new poems. Adding a musical element will be
guitarist and composer Bill Campbell, who
will perform his settings to some of the poems
and also a piece for solo guitar.
Bill Campbell studied music at the University of
Ulster and also under Sir Peter Maxwell Davies.
He has produced a CD, Reed Bed, with the poet
Dermot Healy and the new music ensemble
Concorde. In 2005 his Violin Concerto, Swim,
was premièred by violinist Darragh Morgan with
the Ulster Orchestra.
Presented in association with the University of
Ulster Alumni Association.
Admission: £5.00/conc. & students £3.00
Information: Cultural Development Office
at the Coleraine campus on (028) 7032 4449
or j.mackle@ulster.ac.uk
Cutural Events SPRING 2007