A very special Golden Hour where some of some of Iraq’s best contemporary writers read alongside our local favourites. Featuring traditional Iraqi music and song as well as a closing set from Les Enfant Bastard!

Sinan Antoon

Poet, Novelist and filmmaker whose novel I’Jaam: An Iraqi Rhapsody was hailed as “a novel par excellance.”

Hussain al-Mozany

Short stories from a the effervescent novelist and journalist.

John Glenday

The author of two fine collections bring us his poems from the Great North of Scotland.

Jane Flett

With her new Chapbook!

Music

Les Enfant Bastard

The brilliant Bastard will entertain or destroy you alternating between woeful anti-folk and sonic assault played on home-made noise makers – Les Enfant Bastard is both a kinder egg treat and a kind of reckoning.