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

Monday 8 July16.00 / Organico Café / FREELaunch of the WCLF LETTER CAFÉ 2013with PHILIP HENSHERThe ping of an email dropping into an inbox and theboing-boing of an incoming Skype call can never be assweet as the sight of a handwritten envelope on the hallfloor. Come along to the Letter Café in Organico’s tospend some quiet moments with loved ones by writingthat letter you know will make them smile.The Letter Café will provide complementary stationery,pens and postage, and will be open all week. Last yearthe WCLF posted over one hundred letters. Can we dobetter in 2013? Join our attempt to revive this gracefulart! The Letter Café is sponsored by Basildon Bond, Fast.net and PEFC Ltd.Philip Hensher is the author of The Missing Ink – abook about the dying art of handwriting. (See bio p. 9)17.00 / Maritime Hotel / €18DOTTER OF HER FATHER’S EYESwith MARY TALBOT and BRYAN TALBOTMary and Bryan Talbot will be talking about their Costa Biography Awardwinningbook, Dotter of Her Father’s Eyes. Part personal history, part biography,Dotter of Her Father’s Eyes contrasts two coming-of-age narratives: that of Lucia,the daughter of James Joyce, and that of author Mary Talbot, daughter of theeminent Joycean scholar James S. Atherton. Social expectations, gender politics,thwarted ambitions and personal tragedy are played out against two contrastinghistorical backgrounds, poignantly evoked by the atmospheric visual storytellingof award-winning comic artist and graphic novel pioneer Bryan Talbot. Dotter ofHer Father’s Eyes is the first graphic work to win a Costa award.Mary Talbot is an acclaimed scholar who has published widely on language,gender and power, particularly in relation to media and consumer culture. Herrecent books include Language and Gender and Media Discourse: Representationand Interaction, though she continues to be best known for her criticalinvestigation of the ‘synthetic sisterhood’ offered by teen magazines. Dotter ofHer Father’s Eyes is the first work she has undertaken in the graphic novel format.Bryan Talbot has worked on underground comics, science fiction and superherostories such as Judge Dredd and Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight, Vertigo titlesinclude Hellblazer, Sandman and Fables and has written and drawn several EisnerAward-winning graphic novels. In 2009 he was awarded a Doctorate in Arts.He has just published Grandville Bete Noire, the third volume in his series ofsteampunk detective thrillers.Promoting SustainableForest ManagementImage: from Dotter of Her Father’s Eyes6