Adult Poetry Workshop – Writing the Landscape. Writers have a major role to play in raising awareness of our environmental crisis. Join poet and editor, Nessa O’Mahony for a poetry workshop that will guide you through the process of responding to the landscape and those spaces we hold dear.
Adult Poetry Workshop – Writing the Landscape
Writers have a major role to play in raising awareness of our environmental crisis. Join poet and editor, Nessa O’Mahony for a poetry workshop that will guide you through the process of responding to the landscape and those spaces we hold dear. We’ll read poets currently leading the charge on climate issues, and explore approaches to our own drafts. The workshop is limited and advance booking encouraged and participants to send drafts of two poems (40 lines or less) to Nessa a week before the workshop starts.
Nessa O’Mahony was born in Dublin and lives there. She won the National Women’s Poetry Competition and was shortlisted for the Patrick Kavanagh Prize and Hennessy Literature Awards. A recipient of three literature bursaries from the Arts Council of Ireland, she has a PhD in Creative Writing from Bangor University and teaches with the Open University and the American College, Dublin.
She has published five books of poetry – Bar Talk, (1999), Trapping a Ghost (2005), In Sight of Home (2009) and Her Father’s Daughter (2014). The Hollow Woman on the Island was published by Salmon Poetry in 2019. She has co-edited several anthologies of poetry, including (with Paul Munden) Divining Dante, a celebration of the 700th anniversary of the Italian poet, Dante Aligheiri (Recent Work Press 2021) and (with Alan Hayes) Days of Clear Light. A Festschrift for Jessie Lendennie (Salmon Poetry 2021).
