Martin Stepek (Remember the TV Ad Glen's, Hutchison, Robertson and Stepek) Will Read from His Award Winning English/Polish Bilingual Book at the Scottish Poetry Library
Martin Stepek ex co-owner of the Scotland Top 500 business, electrical goods retailer J. Stepek Ltd., co-founder of the Scottish Family Business Association, mindfulness consultant, poet, regular speaker on Poland and ex Scottish Green Party leader will read from his award winning English/Polish bilingual book about his Polish ancestor's experiences during World War 2 with reference to Aleksander Wat's "My Century" at the Scottish Poetry Library 3pm 22 June 2013.
Edinburgh, United Kingdom, May 25, 2013 --(PR.com)-- Martin Stepek, ex co-owner of the Scotland Top 500 business, electrical goods retailer J. Stepek Ltd., co-founder of the Scottish Family Business Association, 2011 winner of the UK’s lifetime award for services to family businesses, mindfulness consultant, poet, regular speaker on Poland and ex Scottish Green Party leader, will read from his award winning English/Polish bilingual book, 'For There is Hope,' about his Polish ancestors' experiences - being deported to Russian slave labour camps during the second world war and their long walk through Persia to freedom, finally to settle in Scotland.
3pm on 22 June 2013 at the Scottish poetry Library, 5 Crichton's Close, Canongate, Edinburgh.
Martin will discuss issues raised by the book and by Aleksander Wat's 'My Century.'
For There is Hope by Martin Stepek
Published by Fleming Publications
available from www.flemingpublications.org.uk
For There is Hope (hosted by Polish Scottish Book Club)
Zielony Balonik (the Scottish Polish Book Club) and the Scottish Poetry Library invite you to take part in a reading and conversation with Martin Stepek, the author of For There is Hope, an extended poem, recently published in English and Polish.
The poem "is at once a monument, a meditation, a prayer and an epic" about his family's deportation to a Soviet gulag and their journey via Persia to freedom in Scotland. It is also Martin's personal and historical exploration - highly relevant to the contemporary weave of Scottish society and the place of Poland in European history.
Along the way, reference will be made to Aleksander Wat's My Century, as context and comparison.
Date
22 June 2013 - 3:00pm
Location
Scottish Poetry Library, 5 Crichton Close, Cannongate, Edinburgh EH8 8DTT
Price
Free
How to book
Tickets are available on Eventbrite.
Contact for further details
Email Grazyna Fremi at grazyna.fremi@gmail.com
Category: live reading
3pm on 22 June 2013 at the Scottish poetry Library, 5 Crichton's Close, Canongate, Edinburgh.
Martin will discuss issues raised by the book and by Aleksander Wat's 'My Century.'
For There is Hope by Martin Stepek
Published by Fleming Publications
available from www.flemingpublications.org.uk
For There is Hope (hosted by Polish Scottish Book Club)
Zielony Balonik (the Scottish Polish Book Club) and the Scottish Poetry Library invite you to take part in a reading and conversation with Martin Stepek, the author of For There is Hope, an extended poem, recently published in English and Polish.
The poem "is at once a monument, a meditation, a prayer and an epic" about his family's deportation to a Soviet gulag and their journey via Persia to freedom in Scotland. It is also Martin's personal and historical exploration - highly relevant to the contemporary weave of Scottish society and the place of Poland in European history.
Along the way, reference will be made to Aleksander Wat's My Century, as context and comparison.
Date
22 June 2013 - 3:00pm
Location
Scottish Poetry Library, 5 Crichton Close, Cannongate, Edinburgh EH8 8DTT
Price
Free
How to book
Tickets are available on Eventbrite.
Contact for further details
Email Grazyna Fremi at grazyna.fremi@gmail.com
Category: live reading
Contact
Fleming Publications
Etta Dunn
01413281935
www.flemingpublications.org.uk
07411350485
Etta Dunn
01413281935
www.flemingpublications.org.uk
07411350485
Contact
Categories