Among many events offered in this year’s Berwick Literary Festival, “The Remembered Dead: Poetry, Memory and the First World War” (on Saturday 12th October, 10.00-11.30am in the Parish Centre) will feature academic authors Sally Minogue and Andrew Palmer discussing poetry’s responses to the grief of WW1. Archivist Linda Bankier will add observations on Thomas Grey, the Tweedmouth poet, and there will be an exhibition relating to Berwick and the First World War presented in the Parish Centre.
Mediaeval manuscripts will be the focus of another event on Sunday 13th October, 12.30-1.30pm, also in the Parish Centre, at which Christopher de Hamel, a leading expert on illuminated manuscripts with many years’ experience working at Sotheby’s, will give an illustrated talk about those who throughout history strived to make, hunt and possess manuscripts, to protect and share them, even to forge them.
Tickets for each event are £9. Details of all events can be found on the Berwick Literary Festival website.
