Trio of top nature writers feature at Winter Words
Daily Record climbing writer Alan Rowan A trio of top nature writers and an artist are featured at Pitlochry’s Wild Space gallery next week as an add on to the main Winter Words Festival taking place across the river.
The gallery belonging to the John Muir Trust at Atholl Road will host Winter Words‘fringe’events, presenting some of Scotland’s most popular nature and outdoors writers.
Each of the authors - Alan Rowan, Clifton Bain and Jim Crumley - will read from their latest books and take questions from the audience in the intimate setting of the Wild Space visitor centre in the heart of the town, five minutes’walk from the Pitlochry Festival Theatre, scene of the main Winter Words programme.
On Thursday, February 16, at 2pm, columnist Jim Crumley and author of‘The Fox’steps up.
The following day at 1.30pm, Daily
Record climbing writer Alan Rowan will share his work,‘A Mountain Before Breakfast’.
The last of the writing trio to appear is eminent ecologist Clifton Bain,‘The Rainforests of Britain and Ireland’, who pops into Wild Space on Sunday, February 19, at 1.30pm.
Tickets for the readings all cost £5 and can be booked in person at the Pitlochry Theatre, online at www. pitlochryfestivaltheatre.com on 01796 484626.
The Wild Space will also be hosting a free exhibition,‘Beyond the Summit’, by abstract landscape painter Colin Duncan.
The paintings in his latest show were inspired by aspects of the land and sensations of the weather he encountered at Schiehallion in Highland Perthshire.
The work is on show until the end of March.
Full details of the Pitlochry Winter Words Festival programme is at www. pitlochry.org