An Evening with Beth McDonough

Join Us for An Evening with Beth McDonough!

Get ready for a fun and inspiring night as we welcome local author and poet, Beth McDonough. We will be mainly chatting about her new book, "A Year in Water"!

Organised around the calendar year, A Year in Water combines quietly humorous and observant prose, inspirational advice, lucid poetry, and waterside recipes.

Celebrates the challenges and joys of outdoor swimming, Beth McDonough takes the reader through all the seasons of the year, and into the UK’s wild, and more tamed, waters, inspiring the reader with practical hints, tips, and advice along the way.

With evocative and visceral poems, the reader is placed knee-deep in rivers, lochs and seas – without having to get their feet wet!

Along for the night, we will also have Karen Macfarlane(poet and swimmer) to chat with Beth, and musicians Mo Miller and Mary Veal to complement the words.

About Beth:

Beth McDonough studied Silversmithing at Glasgow School of Art, teaching Art in various sectors and completing an M.Litt. in Writing Study and Practice at the University of Dundee. She was Writer in Residence at Dundee Contemporary Arts, poetry and co-hosts Fife's Platform Poetry and Music sessions, and her work, which is widely anthologised and published, is strongly connected to place, particularly the Tay where she swims.