BBC Northern Ireland and Libraries NI are announcing their biggest ever Book Week, running from Monday 18 October to Sunday 24 October.
Book Week is a joint initiative that celebrates the pleasures and benefits of reading and the role that libraries play in community life. It will involve features and reports across the BBC’s local services and a wide range of library-based events - several of which will also be available online. And there will be a big emphasis on encouraging people to pay a visit to their local library on Love Your Library Day on Wednesday 20 October.
The overall theme of Book Week 2021 is Read All About It! and there’ll be a different focus for each day - from children’s books and fiction to current affairs and poetry.
BBC Northern Ireland will be hosting a special ‘virtual’ conversation with William Sieghart, author of The Poetry Pharmacy collections and a new edited anthology of poems for children. He will be chatting with the BBC’s Ireland Correspondent, Emma Vardy about the importance of poetry and his work to promote it and also the ways in which it can help us deal with different life experiences. This event will be available on the BBC’s dedicated Book Week website at: bbc.co.uk/bookweekni
Audiences can get involved in Book Week on social media by posting #bookweekNI and tagging @LibrariesNI and @BBCnireland on Twitter, @LibrariesNorthernIreland and @BBCNI on Facebook and @librariesni and @bbcni on Instagram.
Throughout the week, BBC Northern Ireland and Libraries NI will also invite people to hashtag #bookweekNI to share details of their favourite books, their book recommendations, favourite authors, literary characters, book spaces and libraries.
For further information on Book Week NI, please visit librariesni.org.uk and bbc.co.uk/bookweekni
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