John Dean – Crime Writer

Any self-respecting literary festival needs a dash of poetry and the occasional book launch and the forthcoming Kirkcudbright Book Festival has ticked both boxes in the same event to be held on the morning of Friday March 6, 2026, the second day of the festival

The event in question will feature poets Robin Leiper, Alexandra Monlaur, John Priestley, Peter Roberts, David Mark Williams and Annie Wright, who together make up Kirkcudbright-based Hexameter, a collective whose work reflects the diversity of interests of the individual members.

They will be launching their first group anthology at the event. More information, plus how to buy tickets, can be found at www.kbtbookfestival.org, where there are also details of more than 20 very different events for readers of all ages that make up this year’s festival.