What To Bring When We Leave is a collaborative commission culminating in a unique continuous live performance by Tom French (word) and Danny Diamond (fiddle). Each artist stretches the other’s narratives in spoken and unspoken airs, finding solace in the unexpected places between. Tom’s poetry draws on the traditional arts, folklore and rural Irish life; he writes vividly about traditional […]
Poem of the Month – July 2019 – Vona Groarke
‘Self-storage ‘ by Vona Groarke from her new collection Double Negative is our July Poem of the Month Self-storage When I send my past to the lock-up in fifteen numbered, see-through boxes that two men lug down five flights and hoist into an unmarked van I should feel released, sprung from a twenty-five year sentence played […]
The Heart of Summer 2019
Olivia O’Leary, acclaimed journalist and presenter of RTÉ Radio 1’s Poetry Programme, presents The Heart of Summer, a feast of poetry and music in some of Ireland’s great historic houses. Produced by Poetry Ireland in partnership with the OPW, and introduced by O’Leary, guests will include some of Ireland’s finest poets and musicians, including Paula Meehan, Tom […]
Hinterland Festival, Kells: 27-30 June
Hinterland Festival of Literature and Art takes place in Kells from 27-30 June 2019. The Hinterland festival began life as the Hay/Kells Festival in 2013, in collaboration with the Hay (Wales) Literary Festival. In 2017 it evolved into Hinterland and has run numerous events under this name. Since 2013 guests have included all the leading […]
New Titles from Vona Groarke and Frank McGuinness
June 27th sees the publication of two new poetry collections from The Gallery Press — Double Negative by Vona Groarke and The Wedding Breakfast by Frank McGuinness. Double Negative The double negative amounts to a positive. In this, her seventh collection, Vona Groarke considers the subject of ageing, fearlessly exploring its culverts and cul-de-sacs while also checking […]
Poem of the Month – June 2019 – Frank McGuinness
‘Heart Surgery ‘ by Frank McGuinness from his forthcoming collection The Wedding Breakfast is our June Poem of the Month Heart Surgery My love, he’s an Olympic champion. Wimbledon? He’s won more than seven times. As a boy he survived pogroms in Kiev. As a girl she called Joe Stalin father. Where on earth can we […]
Belfast Book Festival: 7-16 June
The Belfast Book Festival is Northern Ireland’s leading literary festival and the 9th Belfast Book Festival will run from the 7th – 16th June 2019. Sunday 09 June 2019 Brian Friel Archive Performance: ‘Don’t Anticipate The Ending’ A Life’s Work In Progress with Zosia Kuczynska, Jessie Keenan & Robbie Blake. Drawing on Brian Friel’s Dancing at […]
Poetry Spring Festival of Lithuania: an evening of contemporary Lithuanian and Irish poetry
Poetry Spring Festival of Lithuania: an evening of contemporary Lithuanian and Irish poetry 6.00pm Wednesday 15 May 2019 Trinity Centre for Literal and Cultural Translation, 36 Fenian Street, Dublin 2 The Lithuanian community in Ireland and the Lithuanian Writer‘s Union is holding an Irish-Lithuanian poetry reading to mark the Poetry Spring Festival of Lithuania. Award […]
Poetry on the Road Festival, Bremen: 24 May
Poetry on the Road Festival, Bremen, one of the most prestigious poetry festivals in Europe. 31 authors from all over the world are expected, including Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin who will take part in the opening of the 20th International Literature Festival by Carmen Emigholz, State Councillor for Culture of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen. 8.00 pm Friday […]
Talking Translation: Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and Peter Sirr
Talking Translation: Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin: Poetry and Translation 4:00 pm Thursday, 23 May Trinity Long Room Hub Free, booking required Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin in conversation with Peter Sirr explores the importance of poetry-in-translation today. Why do poets choose to translate each other? Is their creative work then influenced by the act of translation?
