Cuisle 2007 Brochure - Cuisle Poetry Festival

For further information on any of the events contact: 

The Arts Service, Limerick City Council 

Tel: 061 407421 or www.limerickcity.ie 

To book for any event: Belltable 061 319866 

Limerick City International 

POETRY FESTIVAL 17-20 October 2007


POETRY FESTIVAL 

Committee: 

Sheila Deegan, Bertha McCullagh, Ciaran O’Driscoll 

Barney Sheehan, Dominic Taylor, Mark Whelan 

Venues: 

1 The Belltable Arts Centre, 69 O’Connell Street t. 061 319866 

2 Limerick City Library, The Granary, Michael Street t. 061 407503 

3 The White House, O’Connell Street t. 086 8657494 

4 Issacs, O’Connell Street, Limerick t. 061 214625 

5 Daghdha Space, John’s Square t. 061 467872 

It gives me great pleasure, in my year in office as Mayor of Limerick, to welcome 

you to this year’s Cuisle International Poetry Festival in Limerick. This festival is 

now well established in the Irish national calendar of cultural events and in its 11 

years has grown to be both an innovative and convivial festival of poetry. 

It is important to celebrate our living poets. Seamus Heaney in his Nobel lecture of 

1995 acknowledges the power of poetry - “…..: the power to persuade that 

vulnerable part of our consciousness of its rightness in spite of the evidence of 

wrongness all around it, the power to remind us that we are hunters and 

gatherers of values, that our very solitudes and distresses are creditable ….”. 

During Cuisle, Limerick will honour the power of poetry by hosting readings and 

workshops by local, national and international poets, 23 in all from 6 different 

countries. Prizes will be awarded to the Cuisle Young Poet of the Year Winners. 

New books will be celebrated through book launches; first time poets are 

encouraged to participate in the poetry slam; lunchtime readings will celebrate 

living Limerick poets; an open and lively discussion on ‘Can Poetry Make Things 

Happen?’ (Saturday 20th, 3pm) will bring together and harness all the energies of 

the poets, and of you our audience, to help rediscover the power and the pulse of 

poetry in both English and Irish. 

I would like to acknowledge and thank the Committee of Cuisle, who annually put 

together this program, for their hard work and dedication. I would also like to 

acknowledge the funding from The Arts Council for this important event and to 

thank Limerick City Council for their continued support. 

Cllr. Ger Fahy 

Mayor of Limerick 

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Wednesday 17th October 

School’s Reading 

Venue : Belltable - 2.00p.m. 

Lunchtime Reading 

Teri Murray 

Venue : Isaac’s - 1.00p.m 

Festival Launch 


Evening Reading 

Roman Simic, Ivica Prtenjaca 

Michael O’Siadhail 


Book Launch & Reading 

Revival No. 5 

Venue: White House Pub - 9.30p.m. 

Reading 

Keith Armstrong 

Venue: White House Pub - 10.00p.m. 

Festival Club 

Venue : Isaac’s 


Thursday 18th October 


Venue : Belltable - 11.00a.m. 


Ger Sheehy 

Noel Harrington 

Dominic Taylor 

Venue : Isaac’s - 1.00p.m 

Book Launch 

The Stony Thursday Book 

Venue: Belltable - 7.00p.m. 


Gary Gach 

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin 

Ger Killeen 




To book, or for further information on all our 

events during the Cuisle Poetry Festival, 

contact 061-319866 or call into Belltable 

Arts Centre for a festival brochure. 

POETRY FESTIVAL 17-20 October 2006 

Friday 19th October 


Venue : Belltable - 10.30a.m 

and 12.00pm 


Ger Killeen 

Venue : Isaac’s - 1.00p.m. 


Gabriel Fitzmaurice 



Theo Dorgan 

Jackie Wills 

Michael Longley 




Saturday 20th October 

Cuisle Young Poet of the Year Awards Ceremony 

Venue : Limerick City Library - 11.00a.m. 

Reading & Book Launch 

Brendan Cleary and Desmond O’Grady 

Venue : Daghdha Space - 1.00p.m. 

Poetry Reading in Irish/Bi-Lingual 

Paddy Bushe and Cathal Ó Searcaigh 


Discussion / Debate 

Does Poetry make things happen? 



Knute Skinner 


Reading 

Hugh Dunkerley, Séan Lysaght 

Barbara Korun with Theo Dorgan 


Poetry Slam 

Venue : White House Pub - 9.30p.m. 



day by day 

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Roman Simic 

Mícheal O’Siadhail 

Teri Murphy 

Ivica Prtenjaca 




Gerard Sheehy 

Gary Gach 

Ger Killeen 


Theo Dorgan 

Jackie Wills 



Brendan Cleary 

Paddy Bushe 

Hugh Dunkerley 

Cathal Ó Searaigh 

Seán Lysaght 

Barbara Korun 

Knute Skinner 

Desmond O’Grady 

poets & readings 

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Roman Simic 

Roman Simic was born in 1972 in Zadar, 

Croatia. He is artistic director of the Festival 

of the European Short Story and the editor 

of the series Anthologies of European Short 

Story. His own short fiction has been 

included in various anthologies of 

contemporary Croatian prose and 

translated into many European languages. 

His publications include In the Moment 

Like in the Wilderness, (1996, Zagreb; 

Goran prize for Young Poets); A Place 

Where We’re Going to Spend the Night, 

(short stories, 2000, Zagreb), and What Are 

We Falling in Love With (short stories, 

2005) which won the Jutarnji list prize for 

the best Croatian prose book of the year 

2005, and is about to be translated into 

German, Spanish, Slovenian and Serbian 

(2007). 

Wed 17th Oct 

8pm Belltable 

Mícheal O’Siadhail 

Mícheál O Siadhail was born in Dublin in 

1947. His collections are An Bhliain Bhisigh 

(1978); Runga (1980); Cumann (1982); The 

Image Wheel (1985); The Chosen Garden 

(1990); Hail! Madam Jazz: New and 

Selected Poems (1992); A Fragile City 

(1995), Our Double Time (1998); Poems 

1975-1995 (1999); The Gossamer Wall: 

Poems in Witness to the Holocaust (2002); 

and Love Life (2005). His awards include 

The Irish-American Cultural Institute’s Literary 

Prize in 1982, and the Marten Toonder 

Award for Literature, 1988. He is a member 

of Aosdána, and lives in County Dublin. 

Wed 17th Oct 

8pm Belltable 

Teri Murray 

Teri Murray was born in Lewisham, 

Kent and grew up in Dublin. She was 

involved with Clothesline Community 

Press in Tallaght and moved to 

Limerick in 1993. She edited 

Scratches on the Wall, an anthology 

of writers (1994), and has written a 

play A Time Under Heaven, 

performed at the Belltable Arts Centre 

in 1996. She has two collections of 

poetry Coddle and Tripe (1998) and 

Poems From the Exclusion Zone 

(2001) both published by 

Stonebridge. She is currently guest 

editor of Revival, a journal of 

contemporary poetry published by 

The WhiteHousePoets. 

Wed 17th Oct 

1pm Isaac’s 

Ivica Prtenjaca 

Ivica Prtenjaca was born in Rijeka in 

1969. His poetry has been published 

and translated into English, French, 

Italian, Swedish, Lithuanian, 

Macedonian, German, Bulgarian, 

Slovenian and Hungarian. He 

participated at the Biennale of Young 

Artists of Europe and Mediterranean 

(Rome 1999), as well as the 4th 

International Meeting of Young 

European Poets Days of Poetry and 

Wine (Medana, Slovenia). He won 

several poetry prizes: "25th Salon of 

Youth" (1998); the prize for the best 

book of poetry at the 5th Kvirin`s 

meetings (2000). His poetry is 

included in various selections and 

anthologies of contemporary Croatian 

poetry. So far four books of his poetry 

have been published; Writing Liberates 

(1999), Yves (2000), Personne ne 

parle croate (with B. âegec i M. 

Miçanoviç, in Croatian and French 

2002); and Take Everything That Calms 

You Down (2006). 

Wed 17th Oct 

8pm Belltable 

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Keith Armstrong was born in Heaton, Newcastle 

upon Tyne, where he has worked as a 

community development worker, poet, librarian 

and publisher. He is coordinator of the Northern 

Voices creative writing and community 

publishing project which specialises in recording 

the experiences of people in the North East of 

England. His poetry has been extensively 

published in magazines such as New 

Statesman, Poetry Review, Dream Catcher, 

Other Poetry, Aesthetica, Iron, Salzburg Poetry 

Review, Sand, X Magazine, The Poetry Business, 

and Poetry Scotland, as well as in the 

collections The Jingling Geordie, Dreaming 

North, Pains of Class and Imagined Corners. 

Though a regionalist inspired by the landscape 

of his birth and its folk and musical traditions, 

he is very much a European and his work is 

much influenced by writers such as Hoelderlin, 

Hesse, Brecht, Baudelaire, Prevert, Esenin, and 

Mayakovsky. 

Wed 17th Oct 

9.30pm White House 

Thurs 18 Oct 

1pm Isaac’s 



Noel Harrington is from Tuamgraney in Co Clare. In his 20s 

he did the customary living abroad thing (Copenhagen, 

Munich, New York) and has washed more than his fair share 

of dishes. In his final year studying for a BA at Maynooth, he 

won the University's top award for literature, the Barbara 

Hayley Memorial Prize. He was recently published in the 

Revival TRIO Series Chapbook. He has also been published in 

Revival, Sliabh Aughty and has had work accepted for The 

Stingfly Fly. He is a regular reader at the White House 

Revival sessions. 

Dominic Taylor is from Limerick. Closely involved with the 

White House Poetry Revival he has had work published in 

various poetry journals. Publisher and former editor of 

Revival poetry journal he is member of Cuisle Limerick City 

International Poetry Festival committee. He is also a 

songwriter and has produced two albums with the band 

Burning Embers. 

Thurs 18 Oct 

1pm Isaac’s 

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Gerard Sheehy 

Gerard Sheehy was born in Limerick and has lived there for most of 

his life. He is a regular reader at the White House Poetry Revival 

nights. Previous work has been published in Microphone On – an 

anthology of 100 poets who have read at the White House in Limerick 

and Revival. He was recently published in the Revival TRIO Series 

Chapbook. He has also been published in Boyne Berries poetry 

magazine. Thurs 18th Oct 

1pm Isaac’s 

Gary Gach 

Gary Gach was born in 1947 in Los Angeles and 

lives in San Francisco. He teaches Buddhism and 

haiku. His anthology, What Book!? ~ Buddha 

Poems from Beat to Hiphop, received an 

American Book Award in 1990. He has translated 

three books of poetry by the Korean author Ko Un, 

and was honoured with the Northern California 

Book Award for Translation in 2007. His poems 

and translations appear in numerous places, 

including Brick, City Lights Review, Harvard 

Divinity Bulletin, Jacket, The New Yorker, The 

National, Poems for the Millennium, and 

Technicians of the Sacred. 

Thurs 18th Oct 

8pm Belltable 

Ger Killeen 

Ger Killeen was born in Limerick in 

1960. His books include A Wren, which 

won the 1989 Bluestem Award for 

Poetry, A Stone That Will Leap Over The 

Wave (1999), and his latest, Signs 

Following (2005). His work has been 

anthologized in From Here We Speak, 

On the Counterscarp and American 

Poetry: The Next Generation. He is one 

of the winners of the 2006 Gertrude 

Stein Awards for Poetry. Killeen now 

lives on the Oregon coast and is a 

professor in the Deptartment of English 

Literature & Writing at Marylhurst 

University. 


8pm Belltable 

Fri 19th Oct 

1pm Isaac’s 


Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin was born in Cork in 1942. 

She has published eight collections of poetry: 

Acts and Monuments (1972); Site of Ambush 

(1975); Cork (1977); The Second Voyage 

(1977); The Rose Geranium (1981); The 

Magdalene Sermon (1989); The Brazen Serpent 

(1994); and The Girl Who Married the Reindeer 

(2001). She won the Patrick Kavanagh Award 

for Acts and Monuments in 1973, and The 

Magdalene Sermon was short-listed for The 

Irish Times-Aer Lingus Award in 1990, and was 

nominated for the European Literature Prize in 

1992. The Irish-American Cultural Institute 

awarded her the O'Shaughnessy Prize for Poetry 

in 1992. She is a member of Aosdána and lives 

in Dublin. Book from Gallery Press & Faber. 


8pm Belltable 

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Theo Dorgan was born in Cork in 1953. His 

poetry collections are The Ordinary House 

of Love (1991); Rosa Mundi (1995); and 

Sappho's Daughter (1998). He has also 

published selected poems in Italian, 

La Case ai Margini del Mundo, (1999), and 

a Spanish translation of Sappho's Daughter 

La Hija de Safo, (2001). He has edited 

The Great Book of Ireland (with Gene 

Lambert, 1991); Revising the Rising (with 

Máirín Ní Dhonnachadha, 1991); 

Irish Poetry Since Kavanagh (1996); 

Watching the River Flow (with Noel Duffy, 

Dublin, Poetry Ireland/Éigse Éireann, 

1999); and The Great Book of Gaelic 

(with Malcolm Maclean, 2002). 

Theo Dorgan 

Fri 19th Oct 

8pm Belltable 

Jackie Wills 

Jackie Wills is a journalist, editor and creative writing tutor. She's 

been poet in residence at the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival and within 

Unilever and has worked extensively with young people in 

education action zones, a local authority secure unit, hostel for 

young asylum seekers and in schools. Her fourth collection of 

poetry, Commandments, is published by Arc this autumn. Her first 

collection, Powder Tower, (1995) was shortlisted for the 1995 TS 

Eliot prize. Other work includes Party (2000), Fever Tree (2003). In 

2004, she was selected by Mslexia magazine as one of the top 10 

new women poets of the decade. 


Fri 19th Oct 

8pm Belltable 

He has been series Editor European Poetry 

Translation Network publications & 

Director of the collective translation 

seminars from which the books arose. He 

translated a Book of Poetry by Slovene 

poet Barbara Korun for the series. 

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), for 

member of Aosdána, and of 

the Cultural Traditions Group, 

which promotes acceptance 

and understanding of cultural 

diversity in Northern Ireland. 

He lives and works in Belfast. 

He has won the T.S. Eliot 

Prize, the Hawthornden Prize 

A former Director of Poetry Ireland/ 

which he was awarded the and the Irish Times Prize for 

Éigse Éireann, he has worked extensively 

1991 Whitbread Prize for 

Poetry. In 2001 he received 

as a broadcaster of literary programmes on 

Poetry; The Ghost Orchid 

the Queen's Gold Medal for 

both radio and television. Among his 

awards are the Listowel Prize for Poetry, 

1992. A member of Aosdána, he was 

appointed to The Arts Council / 

An Chomhairle Ealaíon in 2003. 

He lives in Dublin. 

Fri 19th Oct 

8pm Belltable 

(1996); Broken Dishes (1998); 

Selected Poems (1998); The 

Weather in Japan (2000), for 

which he received the 2001 

Irish Times Irish Literature 

Prize for Poetry; and Snow 

Water (2004). He has also 

published an autobiographical 

work, Tuppeny Stung (1994). 

He is a Fellow of the Royal 

Society of Literature, a 

Poetry. His Collected Poems 

was published by Jonathan 

Cape in 2006. From January 

2008 he will be Ireland 

Professor of Poetry at Queen’s 

University, Belfast. 

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Brendan Cleary 

Originally from Co Antrim, Brendan now 

lives in Brighton, where he works as a 

poetry tutor. Over a period of twenty years 

he has published five full-length poetry 

collections, White Bread and ITV (Wide Shirt 

Press, 1990), The Irish Card (Bloodaxe 

Books,1994), Sacrilege (Bloodaxe Books, 

1998), Stranger In The House (Wrecking Ball 

Press, 2001) and Weightless (Tall 

Lighthouse, 2005). He has also published 

many pamphlets from numerous small 

presses. He has performed his poetry 

throughout the UK and Ireland for many 

years. 

Sat 20th Oct 

1pm Daghdha Space 

Paddy Bushe 

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 twice been awarded an 

Arts Council bursary, and has won the 

Strokestown International Prize, Duais an 

Oireachtais and, most recently, The Michael 

Hartnett Award. 

Rugadh Paddy Bushe i mBaile Átha Cliath 

sa bhliain 1948, agus tá cónaí air anois in 

Uíbh Ráthach i gCiarraí. Tá seacht leabhar 

filíochta foilsithe aige, arb iad Gile na Gile 

(Coiscéim) agus The Nitpicking of Cranes 

(Dedalus) na cinn is déanaí. Bronnadh 

sparántas ón gComhairle Ealíon air faoi dhó, 

agus ghnóthaigh sé Duais Idirnáisiúnta 

Bhéal Átha na mBuillí, Duais an Oireachtais 

agus, i 2006, Duais Michael Hartnett. 

Sat 20th Oct 


Hugh Dunkerley 

Hugh Dunkerley has published two pamphlet collections, 

Walking to the Fire Tower (Redbeck Press) and Fast (Pighog 

Press). Individual poems have appeared in a variety of 

magazines and anthologies both here and in North 

America, including Stand, The Fiddlehead (Canada) and 

Irish Pages. A selection of work will be appearing in Oxford 

Poets 2007 (Carcanet). He has been a Gregory Award 

winner as well as a Hawthornden Fellow. In 2002 he spent 

three months as a Leighton Studio Fellow at the Banff 

Centre for Arts in Alberta, Canada. Since 2001 he has been 

the West Sussex Poet Laureate, a role which involves 

promoting literature in the county. 

Sat 20th Oct 

8pm Belltable 

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Cathal Ó Searcaigh 

Cathal Ó Searcaigh was born in 

Donegal and lives at the foot of 

Mount Errigal. His collections of 

poetry include Homecoming/An 

Bealach 'na Bhaile (Cló Iar- 

Chonnachta, 1993); Na Buachaillí 

Bána (Lagan Press, 1995); and Ag 

Tnúth leis an tSolas (Cló Iar- 

Chonnachta, 2001), for which he 

received The Irish Times Irish 

Literature Prize for the Irish 

language 2001. His plays include 

Mairimid leis na Mistéirí, Tá an Tón 

ag Titim as an tSaol; and Ghealaí, 

based on the story of Salomé 

(Letterkenny, An Grianán, 2001). He 

has been awarded the Seán Ó 

Riordáin Prize for Poetry in 1993 

and the Duais Bhórd na Gaeilge in 

1995. He is a member of Aosdána. 

Sat 20th Oct 


Seán Lysaght 

Seán Lysaght was born in 1957 and grew up 

in Limerick. He was educated at UCD, where 

he received a BA and an MA in Anglo-Irish 

Literature. He now lectures at the Galway- 

Mayo Institute of Technology and lives with 

his wife Jessica and his son Seamus in 

Westport, County Mayo. 

In 1985 he was an award winner at the 

annual Patrick Kavanagh poetry festival. 

His first collection of poetry, Noah's Irish Ark 

was published in 1989, followed by 

The Clare Island Survey (Gallery, 1991; 

nominated for The Irish Times/Aer Lingus 

poetry award). He received a PhD for his work 

on the life and writings of Robert Lloyd 

Praeger, subsequently published as Robert 

Lloyd Praeger: The Life of a Naturalist (Four 

Courts, 1998). His subsequent collections, 

Scarecrow (1998) and Erris (2002) were 

published by The Gallery Press. He recently 

received the O’Shaughnessy Award for Poetry, 

2007. 

His new collection The Mouth of a River was 

published in May, 2007. 

Sat 20th Oct 

8pm Belltable 

Barbara Korun 

Barbara Korun, born in 1963 in Ljubljana, is a leading figure in the generation of radical 

young women poets writing in Slovenia. She is the author of Ostrina miline (‘The Edge of 

Grace’, 1999), for which she received the National Book Fair Award for a debut collection, 

as well as collections of poetry and prose poems Zapiski iz podmizja (‘Notes from under 

the Table’, 2003) and Razpoke (‘Fissures’, 2004). A small chapbook in English, Chasms, 

appeared from Poetry Miscellany Publications in 2003. A book of her selected poems, in 

Theo Dorgan translation, in English, Songs of Earth was published in Ireland as part of 

Cork’s Capital of Culture Programme and Light (Southword Editions, 2005). Korun’s work has 

been published in many anthologies and reviews, in twelve languages. She works on the 

editorial boards of the literary journals Apokalipsa and Nova Revija. 

Sat 20th Oct 

8pm Belltable 

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Cuisle Events Guide 

Workshop & events for children : 

Limerick City Library 

Limerick City Gallery of Art 

Cuisle Young Poet 

of the Year Award Cermony 

Cuisle Programme 

for schools 

Book launches : 

REVIVAL 


Knute Skinner 


Desmond O'Grady 

Cuisle Discussion/Debate 

Can Poetry Make Things Happen? 

events 

18 19

11am 

1pm 

3pm 

7pm 

8pm 

9.30pm 

11pm 

Wed 17 


Teri Murray 

Isaac’s 

Festival Launch 

Belltable 

Reading 

Ivica Prtenjaca, Roman Simic 

Micheal O’Siadhail 

Belltable 


Revival No. 5 

Reading by Keith Armstrong 

The White House Pub 

Festival Club Festival Club 

Isaac’s 

Thurs 18 

Poetry Master Class for Second Level 

Students. Full day. 

For further information contact 

The Arts Service, Limerick City Council 

Tel: 061 407421 


Ger Sheehy, Noel Harrington 


Isaac’s 

Book Launch 


Reading 

Gary Gach, Eileán Ní Chuilleanáin 

Ger Killeen 

Belltable 

Fri 19 Sat 20 


Ger Killeen 

Isaac’s 



Belltable 

Reading 

Theo Dorgan, Michael Longley 

Jackie Wills 

Belltable 


Isaac’s 

Cuisle Young Poet Awards 

Cermony 

11.30am 


Reading - Brendan Cleary 

Reading & Book Launch 

Desmond O’Grady 

Poetry Reading in Irish 

Cathal Ó Searcaigh and Paddy Bushe 

Daghdha Space 

Discussion / Debate 

Does Poetry Make Things Happen? 

Daghdha Space 


Knute Skinner 

Belltable 

Reading 

Hugh Dunkerley, Séan Lysaght 

Barbara Korun (Theo Dorgan) 

Belltable 

Poetry Slam 

The White House Pub 


Isaac’s 



Guide 

Secondary 

School 

Readings 

Venue: The Belltable 

Wed 17th 2.00pm 

Thurs 18th 11.00am 

Fri 19th 10.30am 

and 12.00pm 

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John Davies 

workshop & events 

for children 

John Davies published his first pamphlet 

collection The Nutter in the Shrubbery in 

2002. In the same year he won an 

ArchiTEXTS Award for his first residency as 

Shedman (www.shedman.net). He has 

received an Arts Council England personal 

development award and his poetry has 

been published in anthologies and 

magazines. He has read his work at events 

and festivals in the UK, Ireland and Europe. 

His full length collection Shedman is 

published by Pighog www.pighog.co.uk 

Fri 19th Oct 

12.30pm 

The Granary 


Tom Cunliffe 

A painter and printmaker, Tom was 

formerly Head of Art at Falmer 

School in Brighton, England. He is a 

member of Footwork, the collective 

of Sussex poets and is a director of 

literature organisation THE SOUTH. 

His work is featured in the current 

issue of Poetry South. 

Fri 19th Oct 

12.30pm 

The Granary 


Limerick 

City 

Library 

Wed 17th Oct 

Author Visit - 

Vincent McDonnell 

10.30am 

Venue: The Granary 

and 

12.00 noon 

Venue: Roxboro Branch 

Age Group: 4th & 5th Class 


Author Visit - Judi Curtin 

10.00am & 11.30am 


Age Group: 4th – 6th Class 

Storytelling with Susie Minto 

11.15am & 12.30pm 

Venue: Watchhouse Cross 

Library 

Age Group: 3rd & 4th Class 

Corpus Christi N.S. 

will present their stories from 

a Writer in Residence 

Programme with Susie Minto 

which took place in 2006 

9.45am 

Venue: Watchhouse Cross 

Library 

Fri 19th Oct 

Poetry Workshop with 

Imelda Maguire 

10.30am & 11.45am 


Age Group: 5th & 6th Class 

author visits • storytelling sessions • poetry workshops 

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Limerick 

City 

Gallery 

of Art 

With artists’ 

Suzannah O’Reilly & Fiona Quill 

Tel: 061 310633 

Dates 

Wed 18th Oct 


Times 

10.15am – 11.45am & 

12.30pm – 2pm 

3rd class to 6th class 

Here, and Nowhere Else 

MICHAEL MINNIS 

Bosca Filíocht - 

Poetry Box 

During the workshop each child will pick a verse from a 

descriptive poem from the Poetry Box. With the help of 

the artists they will create a 3D picture of the image or 

emotion they get from the poem in a shoebox. 

Materials such as coloured tissue, paper, glitter, cotton 

wool, sequins, markers will be used to make the image 

in the box. 

The artists will attach coloured acetate with the verse 

printed in front of the shoebox & photograph the piece. 

The children will have the box & the photograph to take 

away with them. 

Booking is essential for all events in 

Limerick City Library and Limerick City Gallery as places are limited. 

Y O U N G P O E T 

C O M P E T I T I O N 

A poetry competition for young people 

between the ages of 8 and 18 is being 

run as part of Cuisle Poetry Festival. 

The closing date for receipt of poems was 

Wednesday 26th September. There was no 

entry fee. 

Three judges have been appointed to 

judge the large entry, Paddy Bushe, 

Bertha McCullagh and Mark Whelan 

Entries were invited in THREE CATEGORIES - 

(i) age 8-12 

(ii) age 12-15 

(iii) age 16-18 

Prizes will be awarded during the 

Cuisle Poetry Festival in the 

Limerick City Library, 

The Granary, 

Michael Street, Limerick. 

Y O U N G P O E T 

C O M P E T I T I O N 


POETRY FESTIVAL 17-20 October 2007 

competition 

sat 20 oct 

11am Limerick City Library 

Presentation to winners 

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PROGRAMME FOR SCHOOLS 

READINGS FOR SECOND LEVEL 

STUDENTS 

Venue: The Belltable 

Wed 17th 2.00 pm 

Thurs 18th 11.00 am 

Fri 19th 10.30 am 

and 12.00 pm 

POETS 

POETRY MASTER CLASS FOR 

SECOND LEVEL STUDENTS 

Venue: For further information 

contact The Arts Service, 

Limerick City Council 

Tel: 061 407421 


Full day Master Class 

(Places Limited) 

YOUNG POET OF THE YEAR 

AWARD CEREMONY 

Venue: City Library 

Sat 20th Oct 

11.30 am 

The Cuisle Schools' Programme provides an opportunity for students to hear and meet with poets, 

who this year include leading Irish poets, Michael Longley, Cathal Ó Searcaigh, Paddy Bushe as 

well as many international poets. 

REVIVAL 

The Stony 

Thursday Book 

thurs 18 oct 

7pm Belltable Arts Centre 

The WhiteHousePoets have for the past three years held their readings 

in the White House pub in Limerick City. Over a year ago Microphone 

On - an anthology of poetry read at the White House was published. 

Now the WhiteHousePoets are publishing REVIVAL a journal of 

contemporary poetry, in chapbook format, which is published four 

times a year. 

REVIVAL provides a platform for new and established poets. REVIVAL 

No. 5, edited by Teri Murray, will be launched on Wed 17th October at 

9.30pm in the White House Pub. 

A Reading by a selection of poets from REVIVAL follows. 

The Stony Thursday Book was 

founded by Limerick poets 

John Liddy and Jim Burke in 

1975, thus making it one of 

the longest-running literary 

journals in Ireland. Over the 

years it has served as a vehicle 

for new and existing talent, 

both local and international, 

and has established itself as a 

consistent supporter of artistic 

expression, both literary and 

visual, as well as a 

multi-lingual voice for the 

multi-cultural world in which 

we live. 

wed 17 oct 

White House 9.30pm 

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Knute Skinner 

Knute Skinner was born in St. Louis, Missouri, 

and attended college at Culver-Stockton and 

the University of Northern Colorado, where 

he received a BA in speech and drama. His 

first book of poetry, Stranger with a Watch, 

appeared in 1965 and contained early 

poems, written in Iowa. His second 

collection, A Close Sky over Killaspuglonane 

(1968), showed the influence of the people 

and the landscape of rural Clare. Since then, 

he has published eight more books and six 

chapbooks. His poems, which have appeared 

widely in serial publications in Ireland, 

England, Australia and North America. Two 

collections, The Bears and What Trudy 

Knows, demonstrate a marked departure 

from his usual lyric mode. This year Salmon 

Publishing brought out a collected edition, 

Fifty Years: Poems 1957-2007. Skinner 

founded the Signpost Press, a nonprofit 

book launch 

Fifty Years 

1957 – 2007 

published by Salmon Poetry 

salmonpoetry 

corporation devoted to publishing 

contemporary literature, and he was a 

founder and editor of the Bellingham 

Review. He was awarded a fellowship by the 

National Endowment for the Arts and has 

received residencies from the Huntington 

Hartford Foundation, The Millay Colony for 

the Arts, The Tyrone Guthrie Centre, and 

Fundación Valparaíso. He has taught 

numerous poetry writing workshops in the 

United States and in Ireland. 

sat 20 oct 

7pm Belltable Arts Centre 


Fri 19th Oct 

7pm Belltable 

Gabriel Fitzmaurice was born, in 1952, in Moyvane, Co. Kerry where 

he still lives. He teaches in the local Primary School. A former Chair 

and Literary Advisor of Writers' Week, the Writers' Conference in 

Listowel, Co. Kerry, he is author of more than twenty books, including 

poetry in English and Irish, children's verse in English and Irish, 

translations from the Irish, essays, and collections of songs and 

ballads. An award winner at the Gerard Manley Hopkins Centenary 

Poetry Competition, he has twice represented Ireland at the European 

Festival of Poetry in Louvain, Belgium. A musician and singer, he has 

played and sung on a number of albums of Irish traditional music. He 

frequently broadcasts on Irish radio and television and local radio 

stations on education and the arts. 

book launch 

Twenty One Sonnets 

published by Salmon Poetry 

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Desmond O'Grady 

Desmond O'Grady was born in 

Limerick, Ireland, in 1935. He left 

during the 1950s to teach and 

write in Paris, Rome and America 

where he took his doctorate at 

Harvard while a Teaching Fellow 

there. He has also taught at the 

American University in Cairo and 

the University of Alexandria, 

Egypt. During the late 1950s to 

the mid-1970s, while teaching in 

Rome, he was a founder member 

of the European Community of 

Writers, European editor of The 

Transatlantic Review, and 

organised the Spoleto 

International Poetry Festival. 

Sat 20th Oct 


book launch 

My Alexandria 

He now he lives in Kinsale, Co. 

Cork. His publications number 

seventeen collections of poetry, 

including The Road Taken: Poems 

1956 – 1996 and The Wandering 

Celt, ten collections of translated 

poetry, among them Trawling 

Tradition: Translations 1954 – 

1994 and Selected Poems of C. P. 

Cafavy, and prose memoirs of his 

literary acquaintances and friends. 

He is a member of Ireland’s 

Aosdána. 

Cuisle 

Discussion/ 

Debate 

“For poetry can make things happen, 

Not only can, but must…” 

So wrote Paul Muldoon. And an earlier poet, John Dryden, went so 

far as to say that poetry can even get people out building walls: 

“Nor could thy fabric, Paul's, defend thee long, 

Though thou wert sacred to thy Maker's praise: 

Though made immortal by a poet's song; 

And poets' songs the Theban walls could raise.” 

Is there an argument, therefore, for employing poets 

to recite their verses on building sites? 

American poet Robert Hass has argued strongly for a more indirect 

way that poetry can make things happen, over a generation or two 

perhaps: for example, by nurturing a sensibility towards nature, 

so that people become more aware of dangers to their 

environment, and act to protect it. 

Why is poetry feared in repressive regimes? 

Is it because it might inspire people with thoughts of freedom, 

dignity, justice and beauty, and make them realize how much those 

regimes have strayed from true human values? 

When does poetry become propaganda? 

And is it no longer poetry when it does? 

These and related questions will be up for discussion in our debate. 



Can Poetry 

Make Things 

Happen? 

sat 20 oct 

Daghdha Space, 

John’s Square 2pm 

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Venues: 

1 The Belltable Arts Centre 

2 Limerick City Library 

3 The White House 

4 Isaacs 

5 Daghdha Space 

Grant aided by: 

WhiteHousePoets

Cuisle 2007 Brochure - Cuisle Poetry Festival

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