Aonghas & Alasdair with Gerda Stevenson and Peter Mackay

Sunday 23 November | 18:30-19:45


Edinburgh Panel event / author reading Adults

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Join us at Tills Bookshop, one of Edinburgh's oldest secondhand bookstores, for an evening celebrating the life-long friendship between Gaelic poet Aonghas MacNeacail and Glaswegian novelist Alasdair Gray!

Aonghas' wife Gerda Stevenson, herself an actress and writer, will be in conversation with Makar Peter Mackay for this special event for Book Week Scotland. Look forward to a lively chat about Glasgow in the 70s, life on the Isle of Skye, the struggle for Scottish independence, and the future of Gaelic poetry in Scotland.

Following the talk, explore a selection of books from Aonghas' personal library—including a collection of his poems inscribed by Alasdair!

Venue information

Tills Bookshop

1 Hope Park Crescent

EH8 9NA

The entrance to Tills Bookshop is level from the pavement, with a set of ordinarily sized wheelchair accessible double doors to the building.

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