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May | Wednesday 15 | 2.30 pm | Daragh Breen and Lani O’Hanlon, moderated by Afric McGlinchey | Cork International Poetry Festival Daragh Breen has three collections from Shearsman Books in the UK. Peter Riley has described him as an ‘Irish super-Ted Hughes’, but there is also something of Samuel Beckett’s deep compassion. Lani O’Hanlon’s poetry is widely published and broadcast on RTÉ’s Sunday Miscellany. She was the winner of the Poetry Ireland Trocaire Award in 2022 and other prizes include The Bridport Prize, Poetry on the Lake and the Hennessey New Irish Writing. In association with Munster Literature Centre May | Wednesday 15 | 4.00 pm | Mícheál McCann and Mark Ward, moderated by Patrick Holloway | Cork International Poetry Festival Mícheál McCann is from Derry City and lives in Belfast. His poems have been published in Banshee, Fourteen Poems, The Poetry Review, Poetry Ireland Review, Queering the Green (Lifeboat Press, 2021), The Stinging Fly and have been broadcast on BBC and RTÉ. Mark Ward’s poems have been published widely at home and abroad. He was Highly Commended in the 2019 and 2022 Patrick Kavanagh Awards and selected for the 2020 Poetry Ireland Introductions series. In association with Munster Literature Centre May | Thursday 16 | 2.30 pm | Trudie Gorman and Marie Iljašenko, moderated by James O’Leary | Cork International Poetry Festival Trudie Gorman is a poet, essayist and activist based in Dublin. Her debut poetry collection Trust the Damage was shortlisted for the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award 2023. In 2022 she was awarded a residency with Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris and in 2023 she was a Dublin Fringe Festival Artist in Residence. Marie Iljašenko is a Czech poet, writer, and translator, laureate of the Tom Stoppard Prize (2023). She was born in Kyiv, Ukraine, into a family of Ukraine-Czech-Polish descent. Her collection of poems Osip míří na jih (Osip Heads South) was published in Czech in 2015 and won critical acclaim. In association with Munster Literature Centre May | Thursday 16 | 4.00 pm | Triin Paja and Breda Spaight, moderated by Róisín Legget Bohan | Cork International Poetry Festival Triin Paja lives in a small village in rural Estonia. She is the author of three collections of poetry in Estonian and a recipient of the Värske Rõhk Poetry Award, the Betti Alver Literary Award, and the Juhan Liiv Prize for Poetry. Breda Spaight is from Co Limerick. Her debut chapbook, The Untimely Death of My Mother’s Hens, is published by Southword Editions in the New Irish Voices series. In 2023, she was a Forward Prize finalist for Best Single Poem Written. In association with Munster Literature Centre May | Thursday 16 | 3.00 pm – 4.00 pm | The Safety of LGBT Art in Libraries. Join us for an afternoon of poetry readings followed by a discussion on the theme of LGBT literature in libraries. Local poet Julie Goo and poet and activist Sarah Clancy from Galway will be joined by Eibhear Walshe, Director of Creative Writing in the School of English, for an important and engaging discussion. May | Friday 17 | 11.00 am | Launch of Esker Box and talk on The Wildlife of Our City celebrating Biodiversity Week The ESKER Project is a collaborative partnership between the Heritage Council and the Library Services, which has received support from the Biodiversity Officer Programme. ESKER is an acronym for Environmental Science Kits for Ecological Recording. The project aims to support accessibility of environmental recording equipment to communities, to help support education and learning about biodiversity, but also the recording of flora and fauna. Recording of flora and fauna is an important exercise that can connect people with the outdoors. It is a process that can allow us to engage more with nature and appreciate the
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