This year's Festival was the most impressive to date and I am still glowing with pride at the achievement of my marvellous team; Finley Smith, Karen McClelland and Kadek Purnami, who did an exemplary job pulling this huge event together. Over eighty writers from more than seventeen countries appeared in panel discussions, poetry readings, literary lunches, workshops and evening events. Our festival theme, Sekala-Niskala: The Seen and Unseen, wove in and out of the sessions like a silent thread and brought extra meaning to the programme...more