Hugh McMillan takes us on a journey to examine the role Galloway played as he attempts to retrace their route, responding with humour.

Accompanied by his friend Charles Armitage Brown, and on a tight budget, John Keats arrived in Dumfries on 1 July 1818. The friends tramped furiously across Dumfriesshire and Galloway, recording their feelings in poems, letters and journals. The next three years saw the greatest flowering of Keat’s poetry. Hugh McMillan takes us on a journey to examine the role Galloway played as he attempts to retrace their route, responding with humour and respect via his own poetry and his own experiences in the great man’s footprints.

This event is part of the Kirkcudbright Book Week 2024. For more information and to book tickets please follow the link below.