Paris attack robs Scotland's only poetry festival of its top star (The Scotsman):
THE Nobel Prize-winning poet, Derek Walcott, has cancelled his appearance at the StAnza Poetry Festival after he and his partner were robbed in Paris.
However, two of Britain’s top prize-winning poets have stepped into fill the gap left in the closing night of the St Andrews festival, the organiser said yesterday.
Don Paterson, the only poet to win twice the TS Eliot Prize, poetry’s equivalent of the Booker, and Simon Armitage, nicknamed Britain’s "laureate in waiting", will join forces for a double-bill performance on Sunday.
Mr Walcott, 73, spoke of being left in a Kafka-esque limbo after his partner, Sigrid, had her bag snatched in Paris.
The thief got away with the couple’s passports, travel documents, money, and, critically, Mr Walcott’s green card, allowing him to travel and work in the United States.
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