Bantry / Sunday 7 – Saturday 13 July - West Cork Music

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Wednesday 10 July14.30 / St. Brendan’s School Hall / €18ON WRITING NATURE with RUTH PADELRuth Padel will talk about nature writing – engaging with nature in words – and read from her ownnature writing in several genres. In poetry, from her acclaimed verse biography of her great-greatgrandfatherCharles Darwin and mysteries of animal migration in The Mara Crossing. In prose, from heradventures in Asian jungles, exploring the risks facing wild tigers and tiger conservationists, and from heracclaimed novel, Where the Serpent Lives, featuring field zoology and wildlife crime in Britain and India,for which she researched a King Cobra reserve in the Western Ghats, Karnataka.(See bio p. 34)15.30 / Maritime Hotel / Bantry Bay Series / €18STOP DRIFTING, START ROWINGOne Woman’s Search for Happiness and Meaning on the Pacific with ROZ SAVAGERoz Savage talks about her solo rowing adventures, and the lessons she has learned on the open oceanthat relate not only to the sustainability of the oceans, but the sustainability of humanity itself.Roz Savage is a British ocean rower and environmental campaigner. She holds four world records forocean rowing, including the first woman to row three oceans: the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian. She hasrowed over 15,000 miles, taken around 5 million oarstrokes, and spent over 500 days of her life at sea in a23-foot rowboat. Roz is a United Nations Climate Hero, and an Athlete Ambassador for 350.org. She isa Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, an International Fellow of the Explorer’s Club of New York,and has been listed amongst the Top Twenty Great British Adventurers by the Daily Telegraph. In 2010she was named Adventurer of the Year by National Geographic. Her story has been featured on CBS,ESPN, NPR, and the BBC. She has written for numerous magazines and websites including Forbes andthe Huffington Post, and contributed a chapter to the book Oceans to accompany the Disney film of thesame name.From top: Ruth Padel (photo: Mary Tzirakis); Roz Savage (photo: June Barnard)14
Wednesday 10 July17.00 / Bantry Library / FREEDEBORAH LEVY will read from Black VodkaDeborah Levy’s most recent novel Swimming Home (And OtherStories, 2011) was short-listed for the 2012 Man Booker Prize, the2012 Specsavers National Book Awards (UK Author of the Year)and 2013 Jewish Quarterly Wingate Prize, while the title story ofher most recent work of fiction, Black Vodka: ten stories, was shortlistedfor the 2012 BBC International Short Story Award. Thissummer Notting Hill Editions will publish Things I Don’t Wantto Know, her non-fiction essay on George Orwell’s Why I Write.Her work has been staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company, andshe is the author of other highly praised books including BeautifulMutants, Swallowing Geography and Billy and Girl.18.30 / Maritime Hotel / FREELaunch of the 2013 FISH AnthologyThe winners of the Fish international writing competitions willgather at this annual occasion to celebrate the publication of theirwinning stories, memoirs and poems, and to read from their work.The judges who selected the featured winning submissions arePaul Durcan (poetry), Philip O’Ceallaigh (short story), MollyMcCloskey (memoir), and Peter Benson (Flash Fiction), whowill launch the anthology. The Fish Launch is the oldest event ofthe Festival.From left: Deborah Levy (photo: Sheila Burnett)Peter Benson and Philip O’Ceallaigh15
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