MARCH

8th March, London

At Queen Mary College, Mile End Road, Ruth will read from The Mara Crossing at a seminar entitled “Migration, Memory and Identity”, to celebrate the opening of their new Arts building, see http://www.qmul.ac.uk/

9th March, Saffron Walden

Ruth will read at the Words in Walden festival, Saffron Walden http://www.hartsdirect.co.uk/content.php?website_page_id=6295
Booking queries to: jb@harts1836.co.uk

12th March, Glasgow
Ruth will read at Ayewrite, the Glasgow Book Festival, http://www.ayewrite.com/Pages/default.aspx

Thursday 15th March, London Review Bookshop 7.00 pm
“We’re All From Somewhere Else”
Can poems contribute to one of the bitterest debates of our time? Human migration is one of today’s greatest challenges. But civilization was made by it and as Ruth shows in The Mara Crossing, so did life itself. As her last poem says, “You go because hope, need and escape/ are names for the same god.” Ruth will be introduced and answer questions from Andrew O’Hagan

APRIL
Monday 16th April, Clare Hall Cambridge, Common Room, 7.45 pm
Ruth will reading from The Mara Crossing with Penelope Shuttle (reading fron her latest book Redgrove’s Wife)
Refreshments: Please book at jamesbyrne77@gmail.com

Thursday 26th April, Galway
At 8:30pm in the Town Hall Theatre, Galway, Ruth will read from The Mara Crossing at Cúirt International Festival of Literature, www.cuirt.ie

MAY

9th May, Patras, Greece
Ruth will give a talk in Greek on science and poetry at Patras University, Greece, http://www.upatras.gr/index/events

JUNE

Tuesday June 19th – 26th, Crete, Greece : Poetry Workshop at Loutro

Ruth will teach a poetry workshop at Loutro, on the south coast of Crete. See
Loutro Writing Courses, Tel/Fax: 00 44 161 928 5768, : http://www.worldspirit.org.uk/writers.html, and http://gogreece.about.com/od/tourpackages/a/loutrowriters.htm

JULY

8th-14th July, Bantry, Cork, Ireland

Ruth will give five poetry workshops in Bantry for the West Cork Literary Festival, http://www.westcorkliteraryfestival.ie/

24th July, the Lake District

Ruth will read from The Mara Crossing at the Wordsworth Trust, Dove Cottage, Grasmere, Cumbria LA22 9SH
http://www.wordsworth.org.uk/events/ Tel 015394 35544.

NOVEMBER

2nd November, Bath

Ruth will give a talk entitled “Time to Fly: Poems and Reflections on Migration in Birds, Animals and People” at the Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Society, http://www.brlsi.org/