Norman Bissell, director of the Scottish Centre for Geopoetics, recently attended the "More Than Us" symposium at Inverness on 29-30 November 2007. The symposium brought together a number of leading political, ecological and cultural commentators for "conversations between humanity, the arts and ecology". Norman's report from the symposium can now be read on the Hi~Arts website using the link below.

Link: Hi~Arts

At the launch of "The Radical Field" by Tony McManus at the National Library of Scotland on 10 October 2007, Tony's niece, actress Catherine Murray, read an extract from Tony's poem "Walk and Talk". An audio interview with Catherine, where she discusses the significance of Tony's work and reads from "Walk and Talk", can be downloaded from the Textualities website using the link below.

Link: Textualities

On Thursday 10 May at 7.30 pm in the Ullapool Village Hall Kenneth White will lecture on "New Perspectives on Scottish Literature". The name of Kenneth White is now generally associated with the opening up of a new field in Scottish thought. In this lecture he will provide a re-reading of certain Scottish writers, while touching on themes such as localism and globalism, poetics and philosophy, identity and creativity. Chaired by Donny O'Rourke.

On Friday 11 May at 3 pm in Ullapool Village Hall Kenneth White, who has been described as "Scotland's most original and challenging writer, academic and poet", will give a poetry reading. Chaired by Kevin MacNeil.
Tickets are £5 for each event and are available from Avril Moyes at the Ceilidh Place Bookshop, Ullapool tel.  01854 612245  or online at books@theceilidhplace.com. Full details of the Festival’s attractive programme can be found at www.ullapoolbookfestival.co.uk.

The text of Kenneth White’s stimulating lecture at the 2006 Edinburgh International Book Festival “Along the High Lines- Figuring out the way towards a world culture’ can be downloaded from
www.hi-arts.co.uk/jan07-feature-high-lines.html.