Sharon Olds
Award-winning American poet Sharon Olds made a very welcome trip to Edinburgh to appear at the Book Festival in 2009. A poet of passion, imagination and power, her latest collection, One Secret Thing, is at once unforgiving and compassionate, humorous and angry. The perfect poetry event.
Loading the player... if your browser supports audio and video it
should appear in a few moments.
Book Festival News
Our response to today's statement from Fossil Free BooksWednesday 15 May
Listen to more
Fatima Bhutto & Fay Weldon (2010 event)
Melvin Burgess (teen event)
Sophie Mackintosh & Leni Zumas (2018 Event)
Dyslexia debate (2012 event)
Lola Olufemi & Minna Salami: Critical Reflections on Feminism (2020 Event)
Lynn Barber (2014 event)
John Hartson (2011 Event)
Marina Nemat - with Lewis Alsamari
Ewan Morrison and Alan Bissett
Andrew Marr