Eileán Ní Chuilleanáin Wins Irish Times Poetry Now award

by Suella Holland | Mar 30, 2020 | Awards, News

Eileán Ní Chuilleanáin is this year’s winner of the Irish Times Poetry Now Award for her 2019 collection, The Mother House. Poems in The Mother House “are rich and generous and rewarding. Reading them expands our understanding, they remind us of what poetry can...

Three Gallery Titles on Awards Shortlist

by Suella Holland | Feb 25, 2020 | Awards, News

Five poets have been named on the shortlist for this year’s Irish Times Poetry Now award. The poets in contention for the €2000 prize are Jane Clarke, for When The Tree Falls (Bloodaxe), Vona Groarke for Double Negative (Gallery Press), Medbh McGuckian for Marine...

Muldoon’s Picnic: 11 November

by Suella Holland | Oct 31, 2019 | Events, News

Muldoon’s Picnic at the Irish Arts Center, New York Hosted by Paul Muldoon
 with house band Rogue Oliphant The beloved monthly variety show returns with another season of music and madness, prose and poetry, high commentary and low comedy.  Based on a late 19th...

Irish Arts Center NY Poetry Fest 1-3 November

by Suella Holland | Oct 24, 2019 | Events, News

PoetryFest: Desert Island Poems with Paul Muldoon and Kevin Young Journey into an orbit of ideas and thoughts with some of the world’s most eminent poets from Ireland and North America. This year’s festival features a special tribute to Seamus Heaney in celebration of...

Belfast Book Festival: 7-16 June

by Suella Holland | Jun 5, 2019 | Events, News, Readings

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...