An evening of poetry with Paul Muldoon
“a traditional poet who is steadfastly at odds with tradition”
Friday 29 October 2010 at 8pm
The Model, Sligo
Free Public Event
Booking Advised: 071 914 1405
tickets@modelart.ie
The Yeatsian Legacy Project
Maggot (published 7 October 2010): Synopsis
In his eleventh full-length collection, Paul Muldoon reminds us that he is a traditional poet who is steadfastly at odds with tradition. If the poetic sequence is the main mode of Maggot, it certainly isn't your father's poetic sequence. Taking as a starting point W.B. Yeats' remark that the only fit topics for a serious mood are 'sex and the dead', Muldoon finds unexpected ways of thinking and feeling about what it means to come to terms with the early twenty-first century.
Paul Muldoon was born in 1951 in County Armagh, Northern Ireland, and educated in Armagh and at the Queen's University of Belfast. From 1973 to 1986 he worked in Belfast as a radio and television producer for the British Broadcasting Corporation. Since 1987 he has lived in the United States, where he is now Howard G.B. Clark ’21 Professor at Princeton University and Founding Chair of the Lewis Center for the Arts. Between 1999 and 2004 he was Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford. In 2007 he was appointed poetry editor of The New Yorker. Paul Muldoon's main collections of poetry are New Weather (1973), Mules (1977), Why Brownlee Left (1980), Quoof (1983), Meeting The British (1987), Madoc: A Mystery (1990), The Annals of Chile (1994), Hay (1998), Poems 1968-1998 (2001), Moy Sand and Gravel (2002), Horse Latitudes (2006) and Maggot (2010).
Free Public Event
Friday 29 October 2010 at 8pm, The Model, Sligo
Booking Advised: 071 914 1405 | tickets@modelart.ie
The Yeatsian Legacy Project is delivered by Sligo Arts Service and partners. The project is supported by the PEACE III Programme, managed for the Special EU Programmes Body by Sligo County Council on behalf of Sligo Peace and Reconciliation Partnership Committee.
Further Information:
Sligo Arts Service, Sligo County Council, Development Centre, Cleveragh Road, Sligo.
071 911 1823 | rmcgrath@sligococo.ie
The 9th Benedict Kiely Literary Weekend. - 'The Shortest Way Home'
9th -12th September 2010
Strule Arts Centre - Omagh
Benedict Kiely, one of the most distinguished figures in twentieth century Irish literature, was born near Dromore, Co.Tyrone.
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Timetable for Benedict Kiely Literary Weekend 2010
Thursday 9th September - Free
8.00pm - Beginner's Guide: Introduction and Discussion With Conor McCloskey
Friday 10th September
5.00pm - Registration
6.30pm - Launch of Art Exhibition 'The Shortest Way Home' curated by Mrs Terry Sweeney.
8.00pm - Welcome and Formal Opening
8.30pm - Reading by Conor O'Clery
9.30pm - Music & Entertainment
Saturday 11th September
10.00am - Catherine Morris - Reading
11.00am - Sinéad Morrissey - Reading
12.30pm - Keynote Address by Anthony Glavin
1.15pm - Book Launch: Cards of the Gambler
2.00pm - Writing Workshops with Liz Weir for Age 16 years + (Places limited, booking essential)
3.00pm - Writing Workshops with Liz Weir for Age 12 -15 years (Places limited, booking essential)
3.00pm - RTE Sunday Miscellany - Recording of Music and Song for RTE Radio 1
5.00pm - Bus Tour around Kiely Country
8.00pm - Drinks Reception & Gala Dinner
Sunday 12th September
11.00am - Eugene McCabe - Reading
12.15pm - Joe Mahon - A talk with UTV's Lesser Spotted Ulster presenter
Pick up a copy of the Benedict Kiely Literary Weekend brochure for full details.
Tickets: £80 Weekend Fee. To book Weekend Passes please call Strule Box Office on 028 8224 7831.
Rates available for individual sessions and available to book online.
The Benedict Kiely Literary Weekend is organised by Omagh Arts Committee with support from Omagh District Council. The 9th Benedict Kiely Literary Weekend - 373 kbs
An evening of contemporary Irish lyric poetry with Sinéad Morrissey
Wednesday 19 May, 8pm
The Model, Sligo
Free Entry
“Irish poets, know your trade” WB Yeats
Irish poet, Sinéad Morrissey will be reading from her four volumes of poetry, There Was Fire in Vancouver (1996), Between Here and There (2002), The State of the Prisons (2005) and Through the Square Window (2009). Morrissey, concerned very much with form, takes WB Yeats’ dictum, ‘Irish poets, know your trade’ to heart. Her works are our contemporary examples of the well-crafted lyric. As a poet born and raised in Northern Ireland, Morrissey’s work addresses the issues of the North, particularly of identity and *not* belonging, and a sense of being outside of either community. She is also inspired by the natural landscape, and has written about Belfast Lough, her immediate surroundings.
Sinéad Morrissey has published four collections of poetry. Her awards include The Patrick Kavanagh Award, an Eric Gregory Award, the Michael Hartnett Poetry Prize and The Irish Times Poetry Now Award 2010. Her last three collections have all been shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. In 2007 she received a Lannann Literary Fellowship and was also the winner of the UK National Poetry Competition. She is currently Lecturer in Creative Writing at The Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry, Queen’s University, Belfast.
The Yeatsian Legacy Project is delivered by Sligo Arts Service and partners. The project is supported by the PEACE III Programme, managed for the Special EU Programmes Body by Sligo County Council on behalf of Sligo Peace and Reconciliation Partnership Committee.
Further Information: Sligo Arts Service, Sligo County Council, Development Centre, Cleveragh Road, Sligo.
071 911 1826
arts@sligococo.ie
www.sligoarts.ie/peaceIII
