Organisers of St Andrews’ poetry festival have announced a diverse programme for next year’s event.
StAnza 2011 will feature Scotland’s most eminent poet Douglas Dunn, who is tipped as a possible successor to Edwin Morgan as Scotland’s Makar.
Northern Ireland’s acclaimed Ciaran Carson, who was shortlisted for the Forward Prize in 2003 and is director of the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry at the Queen’s University Belfast, will make an appearance.
Children’s author and Gruffalo creator Julia Donaldson will head the festival’s children’s programme.
Others poets on the line-up are playwright and broadcaster Paul Farley, award-winning Selima Hill, Yang Lian, originally from Beijing, prolific editor and translator Fiona Sampson, Italian Antonella Anedda, Iraqi Adnan Al Sayegh, Belgian sound and visual poetry group Krikri and poets from the USA, Georgia and Australia.
Also for Scotland will be John Burnside, Stewart Conn, Helena Nelson, Rab Wilson, Hugh MacMillan and Tom Pow.
The festival will run from March 16 to 20 and take two themes Scotland’s history and animals.
