Niall O’Gallagher will be sharing translations from his upcoming Gaelic novella-in-verse Litreachan Plàighe (Plague Letters), extracts of which have been specially translated for the festival by Deborah Moffatt. Niall was awarded a Scottish Book Trust Ignite Fellowship to complete the collection, which is told through a series of letters. Polly Atkin’s Emergency Dream grows out of the entangled emergencies of our times: social, political and personal. The years of the pandemic are reconfigured as though seasons of a TV show, in poems which insistently centre disabled joy and disabled rage. Supported by the Gaelic Books Council Staid Èiginn: Litrichean Plàighe Thig còmhla ri Polly Atkin agus Niall O’Gallagher airson cuirm far am bi an dithis a’ leughadh bho dà chruinneachadh a tha a’ coimhead ri aonranachd is buntanas ann an àm plàighe. Leughaidh Niall O’Gallagher earrannan bhon nobhaileag-dhàin ùr aige, Litrichean Plàighe, a chaidh an eadar-theangachadh a dh’aona ghnothaich airson na fèise. Fhuair Niall taic bho Chomhaltachd LAS tro Urras Leabhraichean na h-Alba airson crìoch a chur air a’ chruinneachadh, a th’ air aithris mar shreath litrichean. Dh’fhàs Bruadar na h-Èiginn le Polly Atkin a-mach às a’ bhùrach de chùisean èiginn san latha ’n-diugh: sòisealta, poilitigeach agus pearsanta. Tha bliadhnaichean a’ ghalair ann an riochd sreathan de phrògram telebhisein, ann an dàin suidhichte air aoibhneas ciorramach is fearg ciorramach. Le taic bho Chomhairle nan Leabhraichean

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