7:45 pm Sunday 6th October Ilkley Playhouse – Wildman £8/£5 conc Slouching towards Bethlehem: WB Yeats and The Second Coming “Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.” A hundred years ago, in 1919, WB Yeats wrote a 22...
The Irish Times Poetry Now Award 12:30pm Saturday March 24th, dlr LexIcon, The Studio Free admission The Irish Times Poetry Now Award, is presented annually at the festival to the author of the best collection of poems in English, published by an Irish poet in the...
October’s Poem of the Month The Gallery Press is delighted to be publishing Conor O’Callaghan’s new collection, Live Streaming, on 19 October. Grace They’re coming to collect the table I’m writing on. They texted a while ago to say they were leaving...
Congratulations to Conor O’Callaghan whose collection The Sun King has been shortlisted for The Irish Times Poetry Now Award 2014. Other titles on the shortlist are: Tara Bergin This is Yarrow (Carcanet) Nick Laird Go Giants (Faber & Faber) Sinéad...
Following the publication of Conor O’Callaghan’s The Sun King, WFUP intern Nicole Fitzpatrick interviewed the poet about form, breathing, tweeting, swimming, and–above all–poetry. Click on the link below for the interview....