Poetry Day Ireland
The sixty-minute-long film will be followed by a short reading and discussion with Edwina Guckian & Vincent Woods (Poet Laureate for Carrick on Shannon) followed by a reception to launch this year’s 25th Strokestown International Poetry Festival.
Arlen House Lunchtime Book Launch presents new collections & readings by Úna Ní Cheallaigh, Margaret Nohilly & Breda Spaight.
Dedalus Press Book launch: The Book of Life: Poems to Tide You Over, edited by Grace Wells with readings by contributors.
An Over the Edge reading curated by the late Kevin Higgins and now held to honour his work and memory, featuring new & emerging talent from the west.
Absent Friend (Harvest Press) is a meditation on a more than thirty-year friendship between poet and writer John MacKenna and Leonard Cohen.
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.
Children’s Event (ages 7-12) Alan Nolan’s Uncanny Ireland.
Lunchtime Poetry Reading with Noelle Lynskey & Grace Wells. The Strokestown & Ennistymon poet laureates respectively.
Panel discussion on Editing Poetry by assembled poetry editors; Alan Hayes, Joan McBreen, ko ko thett, Grace Wells & Joseph Woods, chaired by Nessa O’Mahony.
Arlen House Book Launch: presents Washing Windows III, featuring new and emerging women writers.
Dedalus Press Book Launch, Romance Options: Love Poems for Today, edited by Leeanne Quinn & Joseph Woods and with readings by contributors.
Renowned Burmese poet, writer, editor and translator Ko Ko Thett will read.
A reading by John F. Deane & James Harpur from their joint book Darkness Between Stars, published by Irish Pages Press.
A screening of some short films associated with the late Macdara Woods.
Launch of Cyphers 95 and featuring contributors.
Lunchtime Poetry Reading with Amy Abdullah Barry & Leeanne Quinn.
Inaugural Joan McBreen lecture/talk on poetry by Ailbhe Smyth, followed by questions from the floor.
