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Arts / Library to host event launching new works by Donald S Murray

Donald S Murray. Photo: Shetland News

SHETLAND Library will be hosting a literary evening next week celebrating the launch of two new collections by writer and Shetland resident Donald S Murray.

Leaving Songs – published by Island Books Trust – is partly a musical production, based on Metagama: An Atlantic Odyssey which is about the emigration of around a thousand individuals from the Western Isles on the Marloch and Metagama in 1923 and 1924.

Focusing on the lives of those who ventured to Canada and the United States of America, it tells the stories of many individuals who experienced complex changes in their lives around one hundred years ago.

The musical event connected to this has been a sell-out in various venues, ranging from Stornoway to Castlebay in Barra, Eden Court Theatre in Inverness to Celtic Connections in Glasgow.

Tales of a Cosmic Crofter – published by Seahorse Publications from Glasgow – is about a crofter who buys a fourth-hand tractor and discovers that, in his hands, it can convert to a space capsule and visit the stars and planets that exist within the galaxy.

On his celestial journeys, he also visits islands such as Muck, Scarp, Fetlar and Foula as well as various other locations.

In the event next Wednesday, Murray will be accompanied by musician Donald Anderson and writer Siún Carden.

Murray said he hoped that local people or those visiting for the folk festival will “relish the journey that their visit to the library will take them on”.

The event starts at 7pm (doors open at 6.30pm) and is free to attend.

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