Loud Poets Grand Slam Final

The highly anticipated Loud Poets Grand Slam Final promises to be a festival highlight, combining music with fist-thumping, side-tickling poetry. Having qualified through a series of Scotland-wide Slams, 12 poets compete for a £3,000 prize and the coveted title of Slam Champion. Hosted by Kevin McLean with musical accompaniment from Jack Hinks, plus special performances from winner of over 10 slam titles, Vanessa Kisuule. *Includes 15 minute interval

Book Festival News

Communities Programme participants celebrate success of 2024 Communities Programme participants celebrate success of 2024
Friday 13 December

Enjoying this event? You can help us produce more like it.

Donate

Share

Watch more

Jenny Offill: Storm Warning Jenny Offill: Storm Warning Not all big books are big. Jenny Offill’s acclaimed 2014 novel — the slim piece of autofiction Dept. of Speculation — was efficient and pared back to essentials, not even spelling out fully each word of its title. An autopsy of a marriage, the Guardian… UNBOUND: Five Dials UNBOUND: Five Dials Five Dials, an online literary magazine, brought Book Festival audiences some of its leading lights in literature for an evening… Kerry Andrew & Kerri ní Dochartaigh: Blood and Water Kerry Andrew & Kerri ní Dochartaigh: Blood and Water Where does daily experience in Ireland meet something less tangible, something more speculative? Kerry Andrew’s tender novel Skin is irrigated by the mystery and lure of water. ‘When you got closer – tarn, pool, river, proper swimming lake – the… Salman Rushdie Salman Rushdie Master storyteller Salman Rushdie returned to the Book Festival in 2008 to talk about his sumptuous new novel The Enchantress of Florence with Ramona Koval. This is a short extract filmed live at the sold-out event where he describes the influences on his… Douglas Stuart with Val McDermid: Knives, Doves and Forbidden Love Douglas Stuart with Val McDermid: Knives, Doves and Forbidden Love Shuggie Bain won the Booker Prize, sold over a million copies and catapulted Douglas Stuart to instant worldwide fame – his follow-up is doing nothing to dampen the hype. Set in the 1990s amid the brutal landscape of sectarian working-class Glasgow, Young… Sabrina Mahfouz: Notes on the British Empire Sabrina Mahfouz: Notes on the British Empire Sabrina Mahfouz has often experienced the sly questioning underneath much of British society’s treatment of her: as someone of Middle Eastern heritage, can she be trusted? Confronting what’s at play here, These Bodies of Water takes us to the Middle… Lisa Croft, Willy Maley, Jennie Renton & Tam Watters: ¡No Pasaran! Lisa Croft, Willy Maley, Jennie Renton & Tam Watters: ¡No Pasaran! Our Fathers Fought Franco is the remarkable collective biography of four men - three from Scotland, and one from England - who enlisted in the XV International Brigade and fought in the Spanish Civil War. In 1937, they were in the battle of Jarama, ending… Emma Dabiri: Beyond the Anti-Racism 'How To' Guide Emma Dabiri: Beyond the Anti-Racism 'How To' Guide The murder of George Floyd, the powerful resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement and the imperative for white people to interrogate personal privilege led to a number of books about anti-racism being at the top of the bestseller lists in 2020. Emma… William Dalrymple with Fergal Keane: Rapacity and Excess in Imperial India William Dalrymple with Fergal Keane: Rapacity and Excess in Imperial India In the hands of William Dalrymple, history becomes a rip-roaring, rollicking adventure; the reader embarking on a visceral odyssey into the subject thanks to Dalrymple’s glorious gift for storytelling and his eye for detail. In The Anarchy, the… Mariana Mazzucato: Can Nations Be Entrepreneurs? Mariana Mazzucato: Can Nations Be Entrepreneurs? Inequality, climate crisis and disease: three epic challenges for our times. According to Mariana Mazzucato, innovation by governments is essential to inspire public-private cooperation and bring about change from the bottom up. Meet the Professor of…