Poetry Now 2007
29th March - 1st April
Introduction
Welcome by An Cathaoirleach, Councillor Eugene Regan
It gives me great pleasure to welcome you to our Municipal
Pavilion Theatre for the 2007 Poetry Now Festival which
brings together some of the best of contemporary Irish and
International poets. As we move into our twelfth year, we
are extremely proud to produce a festival that hosts a rich
and eclectic array of celebrated poets from China, the USA,
Europe and of course, Ireland.
Since its inception the curation and direction of Poetry
Now has been consistently innovative and exciting, which
is central to the continuing success of this festival. It has
become a key feature of the annual arts programme
presented by Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council and
of the Council’s Arts Strategy 2007-2010.
Dún Laoghaire- Rathdown Arts is synonymous with high quality events and festivals including the
Poetry Now Festival, Festival of World Cultures and the Youth Dance Festival. All of these festivals
provide a significant opportunity for artists to make and present their work and for locals and visitors
to encounter that work in a variety of ways.
The Poetry Now festival works in partnership with many creative organisations and individuals.
I would like to acknowledge and thank our partners for their invaluable contribution in particular the
Arts Council, The Irish Times and Dún Laoghaire Institute of Arts, Design and Technology.
On behalf of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council I hope you enjoy this year’s programme and
wish all of our participants and visitors an enjoyable and memorable festival weekend. Tá súil agam
go mbainfidh tú taitneamh as clár na fhéile seo.
The Poetry Now Festival brings you the best poetry from
around the world over one long weekend in Dún Laoghaire
and we hope you can join us at this year’s events. We
begin on Thursday March 29th with a keynote address on
Elizabeth Bishop, one of the best-loved poets of the last
century and a poet who has been popular for many decades
with Irish poets and readers. We’re delighted that Alice
Quinn, longtime editor at The New Yorker, will speak about
her discovery of new Bishop poems at this year’s festival.
There will be a rare reading by Irish poet Derek Mahon, (winner of the 2006 Irish Times Poetry Now
Award), as well as first Irish readings for the former US poet laureate Robert Hass and the renowned
French translator of Irish poetry, Claire Malroux. They will be joined by Bei Dao, Jean Valentine,
Helen Dunmore, Christopher Reid, Sean O’Brien, Jane Hirshfield and celebrated Irish poets including
Michael Longley, Peter Fallon, Rita Ann Higgins, Biddy Jenkinson, Paddy Bushe and many others. The
festival will also host writing and, for the first time, poetry reading workshops, as well as a children’s
reading, the announcement and presentation of the The Irish Times Poetry Now Award 2007 for
best collection of poetry and the Strong Award for Best First Collection. And we will celebrate Louis
MacNeice’s centenary with a free gala reading of his work on Sunday afternoon. I hope you can join
us at some of these events at the Pavilion Theatre and I look forward to seeing you there and in the
Kingston Hotel for the nightly festival club.
John McAuliffe, Festival Director
The Irish Times
Poetry Now Award 2007
Keynote Address: Alice Quinn
Thursday 29th March
8:30pm Pavilion Theatre 216/212
The Irish Times Poetry Now Award 2007 is the only award of its kind which recognises and rewards
work by Irish poets. It recognises the best collection of poems published by an Irish poet in 2006 and
has previously been awarded to Derek Mahon and Dorothy Molloy.
The Irish Times Poetry Now shortlist for the third annual Award is:
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Seamus Heaney, District and Circle (Faber & Faber)
Medbh McGuckian, The Currach Requires No Harbours (Gallery Press)
Paul Muldoon, Horse Latitudes (Faber & Faber)
Caitriona O’Reilly, The Sea Cabinet (Bloodaxe)
David Wheatley, Mocker (Gallery Press)
‘Discovering the Uncollected and Unfinished Poems, Drafts and Fragments of
Elizabeth Bishop’
Elizabeth Bishop published just four collections in her lifetime, so the recent collection of drafts,
fragments and unpublished poems in Edgar Allan Poe and the Juke-Box introduces a new dimension
to her work. Tonight Alice Quinn, editor of that collection, discusses her discovery of this new work
and considers its significance for Bishop’s readers.
Alice Quinn, poetry editor of The New Yorker since 1987 and at Alfred A. Knopf from 1976-86, was
for many years an editor of fiction, critics’ pieces, and profiles, as well. She is currently the executive
director of the Poetry Society of America and a professor at Columbia University’s graduate School of
the Arts.
The winner will receive e5,000 and will also be invited to participate in Poetry Now 2008.
The judges for this year’s Award are Eileen Battersby, Niall MacMonagle and Maurice Riordan.
‘For those who love
Elizabeth Bishop,
there can never be
enough of her writing.
The arrival of this
trove of unknown
manuscripts is therefore
a stupendous event’
Alice Quinn
John Ashbery
‘His work is elegiac and satirical,
interested in history, politics
and the imagination’
Independent
Friday 30th March
6:30pm Pavilion Theatre 210/28
Sean O’Brien
Sean O’Brien grew up in Hull and now lives
in Newcastle upon Tyne. His five collections
include Downriver (Picador, 2001), which
won the 2001 Forward Prize, Cousin Coat:
Selected Poems 1976-2001 (Picador, 2002)
and a version of Dante’s Inferno (2006). He
also won the Forward Prize for Best Single
Poem in 2006. He is a regular critic for The
Sunday Times and his book of essays on
contemporary poetry, The Deregulated Muse
(Bloodaxe), was published in 1998, as was
his acclaimed anthology The Firebox: Poetry
in Britain and Ireland after 1945 (Picador).
Rita Ann Higgins
‘A brilliantly spiky, surreal blend
of humour and social issues’
Ruth Padel, Independent
Rita Ann Higgins was born in 1955 in
Galway, and still lives there. She published
her first five collections with Salmon in
Ireland, Goddess & Witch (1990), which
combines Goddess on the Mervue Bus (1986)
and Witch in the Bushes (1988), Philomena’s
Revenge (1992) and Higher Purchase (1996),
and her Bloodaxe collections include
An Awful Racket (2001) and Throw in the
Vowels: New & Selected Poems (2005).
Friday 30th March
8:30pm Pavilion Theatre 218/214
‘To categorize Bei Dao as merely an exile
or dissident is to miss the point. Bei Dao
is simply a poet. There’s no greater threat
to totalitarianism than individuality,
and few living writers possess a voice as
elegant as that heard in Unlock’
Andrew Ervin, Philadelphia Inquirer
Bei Dao
Michael Longley
Jean Valentine
Bei Dao was born in Beijing in 1949. In 1978,
he co-founded the first unofficial literary
journal called Today (Jintian), which became
a prominent forum for the ‘Misty Poets,’ a
group derided by the Communist literary
establishment for their use of obscure
language and their departure from socialist
realism. Since 1987, Bei Dao has lived in
exile. His work has been translated into
thirty languages. His publications in English
include five volumes of poetry: Unlock,
Landscape Over Zero, Forms of Distance, Old
Snow, The August Sleepwalker; a collection
of stories, Waves; and the essay collections
Midnight’s Gate and Blue House.
Michael Longley was born in Belfast in 1939,
and educated at Trinity College, Dublin,
where he read Classics. His eight collections
of poetry include Gorse Fires (1991), The
Weather in Japan (2000) and Snow Water
(2004). His Collected Poems appeared in
2006. In 2001 he received the Queen’s Gold
Medal for Poetry, and in 2003 the Wilfred
Owen Award. He and his wife, the critic
Edna Longley, live and work in Belfast.
Jean Valentine’s first collection, Dream
Barker, won the Yale Younger Poets Award
in 1965 and since then she has published
eight other collections of poems, which
have been collected recently in Door in the
Mountain, winner of the 2004 National
Book Award.
‘A keeper of the artistic
estate, a custodian of
griefs and wonders’
Seamus Heaney
‘Her work is so subtly not
what you think, and of
the spirit, and as fresh as
water, or cool weather’
Robert Hass
‘This is a poet whose words can be
savoured on the tongue’
Iain Crichton Smith, Glasgow Herald
Saturday 31st March
3:00pm Pavilion Theatre 210/28
Helen Dunmore
Helen Dunmore’s poetry has been awarded
the Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize, a Poetry Book
Society Choice and Recommendations, and
a shortlisting for the T.S. Eliot Prize. Glad of
These Times is just out from Bloodaxe. Her
latest novel is House of Orphans (Penguin
2006) and the second book in her quartet
of novels for children, The Tide Knot, was
published by HarperCollins in 2006. She
was the inaugural winner of the Orange
Prize for Fiction, and is a Fellow of the Royal
Society of Literature.
Biddy Jenkinson
‘The linguistic high jinks and formal
experiments of Biddy Jenkinson’s
Óiche Bhealtaine [confirm her
reputation as one of] Ireland’s finest
contemporary poets’
Louis de Paor
Bíonn sí ag scríobh nó ag tabhairt aire
don ghairdín atá tiomnaithe don bheach
Bombus sylvestris. D’fhoilsigh Coiscéim
Óiche Bhealtaine, cnuasach filíochta léi, le
deireanas agus beidh cnuasach de scéalta
bleachtaireachta dá chuid ar fáil go luath.
Biddy Jenkinson tries to write poetry when
the moon is full. At other times she writes
plays, stories and etceteras, minds her garden,
whistles and admires the world. Coiscéim has
published several collections of her poems
and C.U.P. has published Rogha Dánta.
‘Jane Hirshfield is one of our finest,
most memorable contemporary
poets’
The American Poet
Saturday 31st March
6:30pm Pavilion Theatre 210/28
Jane Hirshfield
Jane Hirshfield is the author of six
books of poetry, a collection of essays,
and three classic anthologies. Her
current collection, After (2006), was
shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize
in the UK, and her last book, Given
Sugar, Given Salt (2001), was a finalist
for the National Book Critics Circle
Award in the U.S. She lives in the San
Francisco Bay Area in California.
Peter Fallon
‘Peter Fallon’s poetry has become
very tough and alive, like a just-cut
holly stick. Snappy and weighty.
Very strong, sharp savour - and
where do you find that these days’
Ted Hughes
Peter Fallon’s publications include
News of the World: New and Selected
Poems (1998), and, more recently, his
translation The Georgics of Virgil and
a dramatization of Tarry Flynn, the
novel by Patrick Kavanagh. He lives in
Loughcrew, Co Meath, where he runs
The Gallery Press, which he founded
in 1970 at the age of eighteen.
‘Probably America’s finest
living poet’
Dennis O’Driscoll
Saturday 31st March
8:30pm Pavilion Theatre 218/214
Robert Hass
Derek Mahon
Robert Hass’s collections are Field Guide,
Praise, Human Wishes, Sun Under Wood, and
Time and Materials (forthcoming) as well
as a book of essays on poetry, Twentieth
Century Pleasures. Hass translated many
works of the Nobel Prize-winning Polish
poet, Czeslaw Milosz, and he edited Selected
Poems: 1954-1986 by Tomas Transtromer,
The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho,
Buson, and Issa, and Poet’s Choice: Poems for
Everyday Life. US Poet Laureate from 1995
to 1997 , he has also founded River of Words
(ROW), an organization that promotes
environmental and arts education.
Derek Mahon was born in Belfast in 1941,
studied at Trinity College, Dublin, and the
Sorbonne, and has held journalistic and
academic appointments in Dublin, London
and New York. A member of Aosdána, he
has received numerous awards including
a Lannan Award and the Scott Moncrieff
Translation Prize. Recent titles from The
Gallery Press include Harbour Lights
(2005), which received the The Irish Times
Poetry Now Award, and Adaptations
(2006). Collected Poems appeared in 1999.
‘A gloriously gifted poet, our bravest
and most stylish wielder of the
singing line’
Michael Longley
The Strong Reading
and Award for Best First Collection
Sunday 1st April
12:00pm Pavilion Theatre 27/25
The Strong Reading features readings by the poets selected for The Rupert and
Eithne Strong Award 2007 as well as the presentation of The Strong Award by this
year’s judge, Paddy Bushe, to Matt Kirkham for The Lost Museums (Lagan Press).
This award recognises first collections published in English or Irish by Irish presses
or by Irish writers in 2006.
Matt Kirkham
The Lost Museums (Lagan Press)
Matt Kirkham was born in Luton in 1966. He was educated at Luton
Sixth Form College and Cambridge University. He moved to Belfast
in 1995 and currently lives in the Ards Peninsula, where he works as
a teacher. His work has previously appeared in Blackstaff’s Soundings
and Lagan’s Introductions 1 anthologies.
Maria McManus
Reading the Dog (Lagan Press)
Maria McManus was born in 1964 in Enniskillen and was educated
at the University of Ulster and Queens University, Belfast, where she
completed an MA in Creative Writing. She was the inaugural winner
of the Aspen Writers’ Foundation’s Bedell Scholarship and her theatre
credits include His’n’Hers (with Ray Scannell) and The Black-out Show.
She lives in Strangford, Co Down, with her husband and daughters.
Dairena Ní Chinnéide
An Trodaí/ The Warrior (ClóIar-Chonnachta)
This award is made possible by
the generous support of the
Strong family in memory of the
lives and work of Rupert and
Eithne Strong.
Dairena Ní Chinnéide lives in the West Kerry Gaeltacht of Corca
Dhuibhne. She was awarded a bursary from Ealaíon na Gaeltachta
and the Arts Council the same year. In 2005 she was shortlisted for the
Strokestown International Poetry Competition and received a bursary
from Bord na Leabhar Gaeilge. Dairena recently worked on the Gaelic
Jazz Project for IMRAM 2006 and her second poetry collection Máthair
an Fhiaigh / The Raven’s Mother is due for publication in 2007/2008.
Sunday 1st April
4:00pm Pavilion Theatre 210/28
Christopher Reid
Paddy Bushe
Claire Malroux
Christopher Reid was born in Hong Kong
in 1949. He has received some of Britain’s
top literary awards, including the Somerset
Maugham Award, the Hawthornden Prize,
the Cholmondeley Award and, for his first
book of poems for children, the Signal
Award 2000. From 1991 to 1999, he was
Poetry editor at Faber and Faber, for whom
he is currently editing the letters of Ted
Hughes. His last collection, For and After,
was published in 2003.
Paddy Bushe was born in Dublin in 1948
and now lives in Waterville, Co. Kerry.
He has published seven collections of
poetry, the latest of which are Gile na Gile
(Coiscéim) and The Nitpicking of Cranes
(Dedalus). He has also published three
books of translations. He has twice been
awarded an Arts Council bursary, and has
won the Strokestown International Prize,
the Listowel Writers’ Week Poetry Prize,
Duais an Oireachtais and, most recently, the
Michael Hartnett Award.
Claire Malroux was born in the South-West
of France, and spent her early childhood
there. She continued her education in Paris,
where she attended the Ecole Normale
Supérieure. A renowned translator of
Irish, English and American poets, she
has published nine collections of her own
poems, three of which have been translated
by the American poet Marilyn Hacker as
Edge, A Long-Gone Sun - the narrative Soleil
de Jadis in its entirety, and Birds and Bison.
‘A joy to read... Like Larkin,
Reid is a poet who lives on
in the mind, becomes part of
one’s vocabulary’
John Bayley, Poetry Review
‘... the voice adroit and
confident, the poems strong,
supple, sophisticated and
articulate’ Poetry Ireland Review
‘ In A Long-Gone Sun Claire
Malroux has regenerated a
meticulous lyricism … in fact,
a sort of lyric history’
CK Williams
The Irish Times
Poetry Now Award 2007
A Celebration of Louis MacNeice
Saturday 31st March
Sunday 1st April
2:00pm Pavilion Theatre Free Event
2:00pm Pavilion Theatre Free Event
Eileen Battersby
To celebrate the centenary of Louis MacNeice’s
birth (1907) and to mark the publication by
Faber and Faber of his Collected Poems, this
special event features poets reading their
favourite MacNeice poem and discussing his
influence on their work. Participants include
Katie Donovan, Peter Fallon, Robert Hass,
Michael Longley, John McAuliffe and Maurice
Riordan.
The announcement of the winner of the third
annual Irish Times Poetry Now Award.
The judges for the The Irish Times Poetry Now Award 2007 are
Eileen Battersby, Niall MacMonagle and Maurice Riordan.
The ceremony will be followed by a drinks reception.
Shortlist
› Seamus Heaney, District and Circle (Faber & Faber)
Niall MacMonagle
› Medbh McGuckian, The Currach Requires No Harbours
(Gallery Press)
‘Only in the dark green room beside the fire
With the curtains drawn against the winds and waves
There is a little box with a well-bred voice:
What a place to talk of War’
› Paul Muldoon, Horse Latitudes (Faber & Faber)
› Caitriona O’Reilly, The Sea Cabinet (Bloodaxe)
Louis MacNeice from ‘Cushendun’
› David Wheatley, Mocker (Gallery Press)
Maurice Riordan
Poetry Now 2007
International Poetry Festival
29th March - 1st April Pavilion Theatre Dún Laoghaire
Thursday 29th March
Friday 30th March
Saturday 31st March
Sunday 1st April
Readings
Readings
Readings
Readings
Keynote Address
Sean O’Brien, Rita Ann Higgins
Helen Dunmore, Biddy Jenkinson
The Strong Reading
Bei Dao, Jean Valentine,
Michael Longley
Jane Hirshfield, Peter Fallon
Christopher Reid, Paddy Bushe,
Claire Malroux
Alice Quinn on Elizabeth Bishop
8:30pm, Pavilion Theatre
6:30pm, Pavilion Theatre
8:30pm, Pavilion Theatre
3:00pm, Pavilion Theatre
6:30pm, Pavilion Theatre
12:00pm, Pavilion Theatre
Robert Hass, Derek Mahon
4:00pm, Pavilion Theatre
8:30pm, Pavilion Theatre
Associated Events
Associated Events
Associated Events
Associated Events
Why Not Poetry?
Children’s Readings
Writing Workshops
Reading Poetry: A Workshop
The Irish Times Poetry Now Award
Announcement
A Celebration of Louis MacNeice
A Lecture by John McAuliffe
1:00pm, Pavilion Theatre
Speaking the Image
Daily, Pavilion Theatre
Poetry reading with Rita Ann Higgins and
Christopher Reid
10:00am, Pavilion Theatre
Féile Filíochta, International Poetry
Competition Celebration
7:00pm, Assembly Hall, County Hall
Speaking the Image
Daily, Pavilion Theatre
10:30am, Pavilion Theatre
2:00pm, Pavilion Theatre
Speaking the Image
Daily, Pavilion Theatre
10:30am, Pavilion Theatre
2:00pm, Pavilion Theatre
Speaking the Image
Daily, Pavilion Theatre
Associated Events
Writing Workshops
Saturday 31st March
10:30am Pavilion Theatre E25
These workshops will be facilitated by contemporary poets and teachers Jean
Valentine and Peter Fallon. Both workshops are aimed at poets who are building
towards a first collection. As places are limited applicants are asked to apply by
e-mailing 2/3 poems and a list of publications before March 6th 2007, marking
clearly your preferred workshop.
To apply please contact the Festival Manager at email: [email protected]
or
tel: 01 505 9582 if you have any enquiries about the workshops.
Jean Valentine
Peter Fallon
Author of nine collections of poems, Jean
Valentine has taught at Sarah Lawrence
College, the Graduate Writing Program of New
York University, Columbia University, and the
92nd Street Y in Manhattan.
Founder and editor of The Gallery Press, Peter
Fallon has conducted workshops at leading
festivals and writing centres in Ireland and
abroad, and he has been Writer Fellow in the
English Department at Trinity College, Dublin,
Poet in Residence at Deerfield Academy in
Massachusetts and Heimbold Professor of
Irish Studies at Villanova University.
Associated Events
Reading Poetry: A Workshop
A Lecture by John McAuliffe
Close Reading Poetry: Six Poets, One Theme
Why not Poetry?
Sunday 1st April
Thursday 29th March
In this workshop, American poet Jane
Hirshfield will lead participants through a
discussion of the words of poets ranging
from Horace to Szymborska, examining
not only the process of reading poems
closely but also what these particular
poems might tell us about their shared
theme: poetry itself, and its role in its
author’s life and thoughts.
Poetry is the most defended of arts, yet it is still imagined by
most readers as the most difficult of pleasures. Although poems
periodically feature in our lives - in nursery rhymes, the study
of English and Irish at school, on the DART, in newspapers and
libraries, and on the radio - many are still uncomfortable with
‘POETRY’ and happily uninterested in its existence today. How
then does the short poem as a literary form respond and speak
to a culture which is saturated in other short written forms,
from the advertisement to the newspaper article to email and
text messages? What suits a poem to a 21st-century reader?
To apply please contact Festival Manager
Prior to the 2007 festival, the programme director of Poetry Now
will give a pre-festival talk on why he thinks poetry matters. This
talk is aimed at the reluctant or occasionally interested reader
of poetry and will include a discussion of poems by Bei Dao,
Derek Mahon, Claire Malroux, Christopher Reid, Helen Dunmore
and Robert Hass, all poets featured in this year’s festival.
10:30am Pavilion Theatre E10
at email: [email protected]
or
tel: 01 505 9582 if you have any enquiries
about the workshops.
1:00pm Pavilion Theatre Free Event
Associated Events
Katie Donovan
Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown Poet-in-Residence and curator of
Speaking the Image
An exhibition featuring poems by the creative writing
students paired with works of visual art executed by
students of fine art and photography at IADT.
Pavilion Theatre, Daily, March 15th - April 1st
insecurity, to an increased confidence in their
writerly voices. A popular part of the residency
has involved visits by guest writers (including Joe
O’Connor, Mike McCormack and Mary O’Malley)
who speak to the students on the craft of writing,
and also read from their work.
The residency also serves the county on a
community level and I have focused on the area
of health by running creative writing groups
at Lios Aoibhinn, the Cancer Support Centre in
Booterstown (situated on the border of Dún
Laoghaire-Rathdown) and at the National
Rehabilitation Clinic on Rochestown Avenue.
Running these workshops with people whose lives
have been so compromised by serious illness and
accident I have learned a great deal - probably
more than any of my students - about the heights
of creativity, humour and courage which the
human spirit and imagination can achieve.
Their writing has been both a way of gaining a
sense of perspective on what has happened to
them and of escaping from that into a world of
inventive opportunity.
Katie Donovan: The Residency
The annual position of Writer-in-Residence for Dún
Laoghaire-Rathdown is based at The Insitute of Art, Design
and Technology (IADT), where I have a vibrant group of
students, all of whom are producing impressive work, from
memoir to poetry, fiction and screenwriting. I have been
struck by their commitment to writing and to each other,
and their movement from, in many cases, shyness and
I have been interested in the way art forms can
stretch and extend each other for some time,
finding that poetry flourishes when accompanied
by both music and visual art. With the possibility
of fusion ticking over in my mind, and with the
atmosphere of tangible artwork alive in the
Creative Arts building of IADT, I was prompted to
initiate Speaking the Image, exhibited as part
of Poetry Now.
Katie Donovan is a poet. She has
published three collections, all with
Bloodaxe Books: Watermelon Man,
Entering the Mare, and Day of the
Dead. She is also is a qualified Amatsu
practitioner (a form of Japanese
osteopathy) and has lived in the Dún
Laoghaire area for most of her adult life.
Associated Events
Children’s Reading
Friday 30th March
10:00am Pavilion Theatre
Between January and March over
three hundred children from schools in
Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown county are
participating in a dedicated Education
Programme which has been developed
to introduce 8-10 year olds to
contemporary poetry and specifically
to the poets participating in this year’s
festival. The programme involves a
teachers’ workshop and a number of
pre- and post-festival school visits by
children’s writer Lucinda Jacob who
designed the programme.
Rita Ann Higgins and Christopher Reid,
both participating in this year’s festival,
will present a reading for the children
involved in the Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown
Poetry Now Education Programme.
A Doll, an Orange and a Handkerchief
Three years old, she left the house
as quietly as a thief,
having packed her pram
with her favourite doll,
an orange and a handkerchief.
They caught her up at the end of the road,
lost, but far from beaten
with her doll still snug,
her hanky folded
and only the orange eaten. Christopher Reid
At the core of the programme is a visit
by the children to a reading in the
Pavilion Theatre by festival poets Rita
Ann Higgins and Christopher Reid.
Participating Schools
› Dalkey School Project
› Dominican Convent, Dún Laoghaire
› Good Shepherd National School,
Churchtown
› Monkstown Educate Together
› Our Lady Of Good Counsel,
Dún Laoghaire
› Scoil Mhuire, Mount Merrion
› Our Lady’s Girls School, Ballinteer
› Oatlands Primary, Stillorgan
› Glasthule National School
› Scoil Colmcille Senior, Ballybrack
Associated Events
Poetry for Adult Learners
In association with Dún Laoghaire V.E.C.’s Adult Education Service
For Tutors
A workshop to explore how tutors can actively encourage
their students to explore contemporary poetry, both
as readers and writers. This will be facilitated by John
McAuliffe, Director of Poetry Now.
For Adult Learners
A series of workshops to encourage and stimulate
a love of reading and writing poetry. This will be
facilitated by award-winning poet, Tony Curtis who has
published seven collections, the most recent being The
Well in the Rain: new and selected poems (Arc 2006).
Tony is a member of Aosdana.
Féile Filíochta
International Poetry Competition Celebration
A Library Service event
Friday 30th April
7:00pm County Hall
The celebration of winning poems from the 18th annual
Féile Filíochta/International Poetry Competition will take
place in the Assembly Room, County Hall, Dún Laoghaire
on Friday, 30th March at 7pm. You are very welcome to
attend this special event and hear poems being read in
the ten languages of the competition. The Féile prizewinners come from countries all over the world.
We must acknowledge with deep appreciation the work
of the Féile judges; Dr. Louis de Paor, Kevin Kiely, Enda
Wyley, Zdenka Becker, Jean Philippe Imbert, Dr. Antonello
Morea, Dr. Mereid Hopwood, Dr. Patrick Gallagher,
Maoilios Caimbeul, Annika Burholm and Jacek Kozik.
The winning poems will be available from March 2007 on
the Féile Filíochta website at www.dlrcoco.ie
For further information please contact:
Conor Peoples at Tel: +353 1 764 0405
or email [email protected]
Acknowledgements
Booking Information, Location & Transport
Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council
Pavilion Theatre Box Office
+353 1 231 2929
Festival Team 2007
Curator
Manager
Children’s Programme
Administration
Press
Brochure Design
John McAuliffe
Caroline Wynne, Artscope
Lucinda Jacob
Laura Larkin and Diana Giurgi
Sandra Ellis
Eliane Pearce at Concept 2 Print
Arts Officer
Sharon Murphy
Cover Image and Dún Laoghaire photographs, Brian Coade.
Poetry Now Festival (PN07)
Produced by Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council
Curated by John McAuliffe
Managed by Caroline Wynne, ArtScope.
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Dublin Airport via Mt Merrion, Donnybrook,
City Centre, Swords.
Dún Laoghaire
Dart Station
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The DART suburban rail service operates between
Malahide and Greystones.
+353 1 703 3504 www.dart.ie
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The Arts Council, Gerry Smyth, Caroline Walsh and Maeve O’Meara at The Irish Times, Martin
Murphy, Polly O’Loughlin and Carolyn Brown at The Pavilion Theatre, Kevin Strong and The
Strong Family, Faber and Faber, RTE, The Irish Writer’s Centre, Poetry Ireland, Jim Devine,
Dr Josephine Browne, Paula Gilligan, Sinead Hogan from The Institute of Art, Design and
Technology (IADT), Dun Laoghaire VEC, Irish and UK poetry publishers, Françoise Connolly
at the French Embassy, The Irish Times Poetry Now Award and Strong Award Judges Eileen
Battersby, Maurice Riordan, Niall MacMonagle and Paddy Bushe, participating primary
schools, Ruth Webster, Books Upstairs, Roly’s, Katie Donovan, Peter Fallon, Rachel Alexander,
Neil Astley, Michael Schmidt, Seamus Heaney, Peter Sirr, Ian Oliver, Declan Meade, Jonathon
Williams, Paul Lenehan, Pat Boran, Sally Maidment, Aidan Wynne, Catherine Devine, Liam
Doona, Ian Mitton, Hugh McElveen, Cora Cummins.
Workshops / Festival Information
+353 1 505 9582 www.dlrcoco.ie/arts
email: [email protected]
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Partners and Supporters
Tickets E5-E18
Season Tickets E75/E50 (excluding workshops)
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An Cathaoirleach, Cllr. Eugene Regan, Councillors, County Manager, Owen Keegan,
Charles MacNamara (Director, Culture, Community Development and Amenities), Richard
Shakespeare, (SEO Culture, Community Development and Amenities), Porters and Staff of
Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council, Catherine Farmer, Ciara King, Claire Nidecker and
all in the County Council Arts Office, Marian Keyes, Mairead Owens and Conor Peoples, Dún
Laoghaire-Rathdown Library Service.
The Pavilion Theatre
The Kingston Hotel
(Festival Club)
Sandycove/Glasthule
Dart Station
Poetry Now 2007 Contributors
Bei Dao, Paddy Bushe, Katie Donovan, Helen Dunmore, Peter Fallon, Robert Hass, Rita Ann Higgins, Jane Hirshfield,
Biddy Jenkinson, Matt Kirkham, Michael Longley, Derek Mahon, Maria McManus, Claire Malroux,
Dairena Ní Chinnéide, Sean O’Brien, Alice Quinn, Christopher Reid, Maurice Riordan, Jean Valentine
Pavilion Theatre Box Office
+353 1 231 2929
Workshops / Festival Information
+353 1 505 9582 www.dlrcoco.ie/arts
email: [email protected]