Cuisle 2009 Brochure - Cuisle Poetry Festival
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For further information on any<br />
of the events contact:<br />
The Arts Service,<br />
Limerick City Council<br />
Tel: 061 407421 or<br />
www.limerickcity.ie<br />
To book tickets:<br />
Belltable 061 319866<br />
Admission: €3 Lunchtime Reading €5 Evening Reading<br />
Limerick City International<br />
POETRY FESTIVAL<br />
14-17 Oct <strong>2009</strong>
Mayors Address 1<br />
<strong>Festival</strong> Guide 2<br />
CUISLE Poets- biographies and reading times 4<br />
Vivienne McKechnie 6<br />
Paul Muldoon 7<br />
John O’Donoghue 8<br />
Lidija Dimkovska 9<br />
Maurice Riordan 10<br />
Paul Sweeney 11<br />
Ulick O’Connor 12<br />
Taja Kramberger 13<br />
Catherine Smith 14<br />
Clairr O’Connor 15<br />
Robert Hass 16<br />
Donald Hall 17<br />
Penelope Shuttle 18<br />
Aonghas MacNeacail 19<br />
Patrick Moran 20<br />
Fleur Adcock 21<br />
CUISLE Events 22<br />
CUISLE Education Programme 24<br />
Young Poet of the Year Competition 25<br />
Programme for Schools 26<br />
Programme for Schools : Poets 28<br />
CUISLE Events 30<br />
Discussion 31<br />
The Stony Thursday Book Launch 32<br />
Life Monitor - Ciaran O’Driscoll : Booklaunch 33<br />
White House Events 34<br />
Fringe Event : Speakeasy Jazz 34<br />
Map of locations in Limerick 35<br />
Grant Aided/Sponsors/Committee 36<br />
<strong>Cuisle</strong> Limerick City International <strong>Poetry</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> was inaugurated by Limerick poet Noel<br />
Bourke, in 1990. In 1992 Limerick poets Mark Whelan and Paul Sweeny took up the baton<br />
and inaugurated <strong>Cuisle</strong> Limerick City International <strong>Poetry</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> as a bi-annual <strong>Festival</strong><br />
with the support of The Arts Office in Limerick City Council. The festival grew slowly but<br />
steadily. In 2000 it was decided to make <strong>Cuisle</strong> Limerick City International <strong>Poetry</strong><br />
<strong>Festival</strong> a yearly event.<br />
<strong>2009</strong> sees <strong>Cuisle</strong> Limerick City International <strong>Poetry</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> celebrating its fourteenth<br />
season with a line up which can only be described as its most prestigious to date.<br />
In keeping with its goal to establish Limerick City as a centre of excellence for poetry<br />
locally, nationally, and internationally, this year <strong>Cuisle</strong> hosts some of the most important<br />
and influential figures from the world of contemporary poetry, including two former<br />
American Poet Laureates, Donald Hall and Robert Hass; Pulitzer Prize Winners Paul<br />
Muldoon (Ireland) and Robert Hass (America), and New Zealand and U.K. and OBE<br />
recipient Fleur Adcock, to name but a few of the prominent award-winning poets<br />
attending this year’s festival.<br />
This year the <strong>Cuisle</strong> Programme for schools includes readings, workshops and masterclasses<br />
for second level schools. Booking is essential for these events and can be made<br />
through the Belltable Arts Centre on 061 310633.<br />
Limerick’s long association with poetry makes this festival the perfect place to enjoy<br />
convivial discussion, lunchtime readings, book launches, readings and workshops with the<br />
leading contemporary poets of our time. We hope you enjoy your time at this important<br />
<strong>Poetry</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> in Limerick.<br />
Cllr Kevin Kiely<br />
Mayor of Limerick<br />
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Wed 14th<br />
Thurs 15th<br />
Friday 16th<br />
Saturday 17th<br />
Lunchtime reading<br />
Official opening<br />
Evening reading<br />
Lunchtime reading<br />
Discussion<br />
Book launch<br />
Evening reading<br />
Open Mic<br />
Speakeasy Jazz<br />
Lunchtime reading<br />
Book launch & reading<br />
Evening reading<br />
Open Mic<br />
Awards Ceremony<br />
Evening reading<br />
<strong>Poetry</strong> Grand Slam<br />
1.15pm<br />
7pm<br />
8pm<br />
9.30pm<br />
1.15pm<br />
2.30pm<br />
7pm<br />
8pm<br />
9.30pm<br />
11.30pm<br />
1.15pm<br />
7pm<br />
8pm<br />
9.30pm<br />
12 noon<br />
8pm<br />
9.30pm<br />
To book, or for further information on all our events during the<br />
<strong>Cuisle</strong> <strong>Poetry</strong> <strong>Festival</strong>, contact 061-319866 or call into<br />
Belltable Arts Centre or Limerick Tourist Office for a <strong>Festival</strong> brochure.<br />
Vivienne McKechnie<br />
Official Opening by Paul Muldoon &<br />
Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill<br />
Paul Muldoon, John O’Donoghue,<br />
Lidija Dimkovska<br />
Maurice Riordan<br />
Paul Sweeney<br />
The Crisis in Publishing<br />
The Stony Thursday Book Launch<br />
Ulick O’Connor, Taja Kramberger,<br />
Catherine Smith<br />
Open Mic<br />
Music and poetry, including poets Mark<br />
Whelan, Ciaran O’Driscoll and Peader Clancy<br />
Clairr O’Connor<br />
Ciaran O’Driscoll<br />
Robert Hass, Donald Hall, Penelope Shuttle<br />
Open Mic<br />
<strong>Cuisle</strong> Young Poet of the Year Award Ceremony<br />
Aonghas MacNeacail, Patrick Moran,<br />
Fleur Adcock<br />
<strong>Poetry</strong> Grand Slam<br />
Limerick City Gallery of Art<br />
Daghdha Space<br />
Daghdha Space<br />
White House Pub<br />
Limerick City Gallery of Art<br />
Limerick City Gallery of Art<br />
Daghdha Space<br />
Daghdha Space<br />
White House Pub<br />
Shannon Rowing Club<br />
Sarsfield Bridge<br />
Limerick City Gallery of Art<br />
Daghdha Space<br />
Daghdha Space<br />
White House Pub<br />
Daghdha Space<br />
Daghdha Space<br />
White House Pub<br />
2 festival guide<br />
Lunchtime reading<br />
Official opening<br />
Evening reading<br />
Book launch<br />
Open Mic<br />
Symposium<br />
Awards<br />
Ceremony<br />
Speakeasy Jazz<br />
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Fleur Adcock : Tim Cunningham : John Davies : Lidija Dimkovska : Gabriel Fitzmaurice<br />
Donald Hall : Robert Hass : Taja Kramberger : Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill<br />
Aonghas MacNeacail : Vivienne McKechnie : Patrick Moran : Paul Muldoon<br />
Clairr O’Connor : Ulick O’Connor : Ciaran O’Driscoll : John O’Donoghue : Iztok Ozojnik<br />
Maurice Riordan : Penelope Shuttle : Catherine Smith : Paul Sweeney : Mark Whelan<br />
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poets<br />
biographies and reading times<br />
5
6<br />
Limerick City International<br />
POETRY FESTIVAL<br />
Vivienne McKechnie<br />
Vivienne McKechnie was born in Dublin and now lives in<br />
Limerick. She is a graduate of Trinity College and is a<br />
teacher of English . She taught in Dublin, Kenya where<br />
she lived for four and a half years - and Limerick.<br />
She has taught courses on The Modern Novel, The Short<br />
Story and on Jennifer Johnston in the University of<br />
Limerick. She also gave a series of lectures on W. B. Yeats<br />
to the Mid Western English Teachers’ Association.<br />
She is a published poet, her work appearing in Stony<br />
Thursday, Revival and the Limerick Leader. She has read<br />
her work on Lyric FM and in The White House. Vivienne is<br />
currently working on a collection of poetry.<br />
Wed 14th Oct<br />
1.15pm<br />
Limerick City Gallery of Art<br />
Wed 14th Oct<br />
8pm<br />
Daghdha Space<br />
Paul Muldoon<br />
Paul Muldoon was born in 1951 in County Armagh, Northern<br />
Ireland, and educated in Armagh and at the Queen's University<br />
of Belfast. From 1973 to 1986 he worked in Belfast as a radio<br />
and television producer for the BBC. Since 1987, he has lived in<br />
the United States, where he is now Howard G. B. Clark '21<br />
Professor at Princeton University and Chair of the Peter B. Lewis<br />
Center for the Arts. In 2007 he was appointed <strong>Poetry</strong> Editor of<br />
The New Yorker. Between 1999 and 2004 he was Professor of<br />
<strong>Poetry</strong> at the University of Oxford, where he is an honorary<br />
Fellow of Hertford College.<br />
Paul Muldoon's main collections of poetry are New Weather<br />
(1973), Mules (1977), Why Brownlee Left (1980), Quoof<br />
(1983), Meeting The British (1987), Madoc: A Mystery (1990),<br />
The Annals of Chile (1994), Kerry Slides (1996), Hay (1998),<br />
Poems 1968-1998 (2001) and Moy Sand and Gravel (2002), for<br />
which he won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize. His tenth collection,<br />
Horse Latitudes, appeared in the fall of 2006.<br />
A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the American<br />
Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Academy of<br />
Arts and Letters, Paul Muldoon was given an American<br />
Academy of Arts and Letters award in Literature for 1996. Other<br />
recent awards are the 1994 T. S. Eliot Prize, the 1997 Irish<br />
Times <strong>Poetry</strong> Prize, The Pulitzer Prize 2003, the 2003 Griffin<br />
International Prize for Excellence in <strong>Poetry</strong>, the 2004 American<br />
Ireland Fund Literary Award, the 2004 Shakespeare Prize, the<br />
2005 Aspen Prize for <strong>Poetry</strong>, and the 2006 European Prize for<br />
<strong>Poetry</strong>. He has been described by The Times Literary<br />
Supplement as "the most significant English-language poet<br />
born since the second World War."<br />
WEDNESDAY<br />
7
8<br />
Wed 14th Oct<br />
8pm<br />
Daghdha Space<br />
John O’Donoghue<br />
John O’Donoghue is the author of two<br />
pamphlets, Letter To Lord Rochester (Waterloo<br />
Press 2004) and The Beach Generation<br />
(Pighog Press 2007). Brunch Poems is<br />
published by Waterloo Press in 2008. His<br />
memoir, Sectioned, was published by John<br />
Murray in Spring <strong>2009</strong>.<br />
He is an English born poet of irish parents,<br />
living in Brighton.<br />
Wed 14th Oct<br />
8pm<br />
Daghdha Space<br />
Lidija Dimkovska<br />
was born in 1971 in Skopje, Macedonia. She is a poet, essayist,<br />
and translator. She took a Ph.D. degree in Romanian Literature at<br />
the University of Bucharest, and for several years she worked there<br />
as lecturer in Macedonian Language and Literature. Now she lives<br />
in Ljubljana, Slovenia, as a free-lance writer and translator of<br />
Romanian and Slovenian Literature into Macedonian.<br />
Books of poetry: The Offspring of the East (1992, together with<br />
Boris Cavkoski), The Fire of Letters (1994), Bitten Nails (1998),<br />
20.young.m@c.poets.00 (an anthology of young Macedonian<br />
poetry, 2000), Nobel vs. Nobel (2001, available also online, second<br />
issue 2002), Meta-Hanging on Meta-Linden (in Romanian; Vinea,<br />
Bucharest, 2001); Nobel vs. Nobel (Slovenian version by Aleph,<br />
Ljubljana, 2004), Do Not Awaken Them with Hammers (English<br />
translation by Ugly Duckling Press, New York, 2006), Ideal Weight<br />
(selected poetry in Macedonian, 2008) and pH Neutral for Life and<br />
Death, <strong>2009</strong>.<br />
She published her first novel Hidden Camera in 2004 and for it she<br />
received the award of the Writers’ Union of Macedonia for the best<br />
novel of the year. It has been translated in Slovenian (Cankarjeva,<br />
Ljubljana, 2006) and Slovakian (Kalligram, Bratislava, 2007) and<br />
will shortly be published in Polish.<br />
Her poems have been translated and published in more than 20<br />
languages all around the world. She has participated at numerous<br />
international literary festivals and residencies.<br />
In <strong>2009</strong> she received the German “Hubert Burda” prize for younger<br />
Eastern European poets.<br />
WEDNESDAY<br />
9
10<br />
Wed 14th Oct<br />
9.30pm<br />
White House Pub<br />
Maurice Riordan<br />
Maurice Riordan received the Michael Hartnett Award in 2007 for The Holy Land (Faber).<br />
Previous collections, A Word from the Loki and Floods, were nominated for the T.S. Eliot<br />
Prize and the Whitbread Book Award. Other publications include A Quark for Mister<br />
Mark:101 Poems About Science and Hart Crane, which has recently appeared in Faber`s<br />
`Poet to Poet` series. Born in Lisgoold, Co Cork, he lives in London and teaches on the<br />
Writing MA at Sheffield Hallam University.<br />
Thurs 15th Oct<br />
1.15pm<br />
Limerick City Gallery of Art<br />
Paul Sweeney<br />
Paul Sweeney was born and educated in Limerick. In<br />
2004 he produced a special limited edition book The<br />
City - Poems in The Note of CP Cavafy, with original<br />
hand made prints by Gavin Hogg, which was launched<br />
at the Belltable Arts Centre.<br />
WEDNESDAY THURSDAY<br />
11
12<br />
Thurs 15th Oct<br />
8pm<br />
Daghdha Space<br />
Ulick O’Connor<br />
Ulick O’Connor is a biographer, poet and playwright.<br />
His biographies include Oliver St John Gogarty,<br />
Brendan Behan and the much praised Celtic Dawn,<br />
a biography of the Irish Literary Renaissance. As a<br />
poet he is best known for his verse-plays in the Noh<br />
form which were first produced in the Abbey<br />
Theatre in 1977 and at the Dublin Theatre <strong>Festival</strong> in<br />
1979, later going to an off-Broadway production in<br />
1981 at the Theatre of the Open Eye.<br />
Alongside Ulick O'Connor's prodigious literary output<br />
as biographer, playwright, literary historian and<br />
critic, he has been writing and publishing<br />
memorable poetry for more than four decades. His<br />
engagement with his subject matter, his deft use of<br />
form, craft, and above all lyricism, define these<br />
poems and make it a pleasure to rediscover them or<br />
encounter them for the first time.<br />
His first book of poems Life Styles was published by<br />
Hamish Hamilton and Dolmen Press in 1975. He<br />
went on to write five others, among them All Things<br />
Counter (1985), and One is Animate (1990). His<br />
translations of Baudelaire were published by<br />
Wolfhound Press in 1995. The book received an<br />
outstanding reception, and was highly praised by<br />
Michel Déon of Académie Francaise.<br />
Thurs 15th Oct<br />
8pm<br />
Daghdha Space<br />
Taja Kramberger<br />
Taja Kramberger (1970) is a poet, historical anthropologist, essayist and translator. She is<br />
the Editor-in-Chief of the Monitor ZSA – Review of Historical, Social and Other<br />
Anthropologies, published by University of Primorska Koper (Publishing house Annales). She<br />
lives in Koper and is employed at the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Primorska<br />
(Littoral) in Koper. So far she has published seven books of poetry, four of them in<br />
Slovenian: Marcipan (Marzipan, 1997), Spregovori morje (The Sea Says, 1999), Žametni<br />
indigo (Velvet Indigo, 2004), Vsakdanji pogovori (Everyday Talks, 2006), Opus quinque<br />
dierum (<strong>2009</strong>). A book of her poetry, Gegenströmung/Protitok (Counter–Current, 2002), was<br />
published in a bibliophilic edition by the Austrian publisher Edition Thanhäuser in<br />
Ottensheim. Her fifth collection, a multi-lingual work, Mobilizacije / Mobilizations /<br />
Mobilisations / Mobilitazioni, was published in 2004 by Associations Tropos Ljubljana &<br />
Zrakogled Koper. Her poems have appeared in various literary anthologies and reviews in<br />
Slovenian and other languages. She participated in numerous international literary festivals<br />
around Europe and in Canada. She translates literature (books of Michele Obit, Neringa<br />
Abrutyte and Roberto Juarroz) and scientific texts (De Certeau, Bourdieu, Chartier, Valensi,<br />
Wacquant etc.) into Slovenian, and has published many essays and articles on literature.<br />
THURSDAY<br />
13
14<br />
Thurs 15th Oct<br />
8pm<br />
Daghdha Space<br />
Catherine Smith<br />
Catherine Smith's first short collection, The New Bride (Smith/Doorstop) was<br />
short-listed for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. Her first full collection,<br />
The Butcher's Hand's (Smith/Doorstop) was a PBS recommendation and shortlisted<br />
for the Aldeburgh/Jerwood Prize. Her latest collection, Lip, was short-listed<br />
for the Forward Prize for Best Collection. In 2004 she was selected as one of the<br />
'Next Generation' poets - the '20 most exhilarating poets to have published a first<br />
collection in the last ten years.'<br />
THURSDAY<br />
Fri 16th Oct<br />
1.15pm<br />
Limerick City Gallery of Art<br />
Clairr O’Connor<br />
Clairr O’Connor was born in Croom ,<br />
Co Limerick and lives in Dublin.<br />
She is a poet, playwright and<br />
novelist. Her first novel, Belonging<br />
(Marino 1991), was nominated for<br />
an Irish Times/Aer Lingus Award,<br />
her second, Love in Another Room<br />
(Attic Press 1995), was shortlisted<br />
for the Listowel Book of the Year<br />
Award. Her poetry collections are<br />
When You Need Them (Salmon<br />
1989), Breast (Astrolabe 2004),<br />
Trick the Lock (Astrolabe 2008).<br />
Her radio plays have been<br />
broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and RTE<br />
Radio 1.<br />
Peter Sirr said of Breast (2004)<br />
“Hard, clear-eyed, these poems<br />
are uncompromising in their<br />
confrontation with physical pain<br />
and their fierce embrace of love<br />
and memory.”<br />
“The transformative power of O’<br />
Connor’s imagination is constantly<br />
at work; even the most<br />
nightmarish of visions has a<br />
terrible beauty.” (Orbis, England).<br />
FRIDAY<br />
15
16<br />
Fri 16th Oct<br />
8pm<br />
Daghdha Space<br />
Robert Hass<br />
Robert Hass was born in San Francisco and lives in Berkeley,<br />
California, where he teaches at the University of California.<br />
A MacArthur Fellow, a two-time winner of the National<br />
Book Critics Circle Award and the winner, in 2008, of the<br />
National Book Award as well as the Pulitzer Prize for <strong>Poetry</strong>,<br />
he has published poems, literary essays and translations.<br />
He served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995<br />
to 1997, during which time he organised a campaign<br />
against illiteracy and founded River of Words, an<br />
organization that promotes environmental and arts<br />
education in affiliation with the Library of Congress Center<br />
for the Book. He believes that poets, especially, need to pay<br />
constant attention to the interaction of mind and<br />
environment.<br />
Robert Hass has published the following collections of<br />
poetry: Field Guide, Praise, Human Wishes, Sun Under<br />
Wood, and Time and Materials, as well as a book of essays<br />
on poetry, Twentieth Century Pleasures. He has translated<br />
many of the works of Nobel Prize-winning Polish poet,<br />
Czeslaw Milosz, and edited Selected Poems 1954-1986 by<br />
Thomas Tranströmer, and The Essential Haiku: Versions of<br />
Basho, Buson, and Issa.<br />
In spring 2010, Ecco Press will publish The Apple Trees at<br />
Olema: Selected Poems & Essays, 1985-<strong>2009</strong>, and a<br />
collection of selected essays.<br />
Fri 16th Oct<br />
8pm<br />
Daghdha Space<br />
Donald Hall<br />
Donald Hall was born in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1928. He began<br />
writing as an adolescent and had his first work published at the age<br />
of sixteen. He has published numerous books of poetry, most<br />
recently White Apples and the Taste of Stone: Selected Poems<br />
1946-2006 (Houghton Mifflin, 2006); The Painted Bed (2002) and<br />
Without: Poems (1998), which was published on the third<br />
anniversary of his wife and fellow poet Jane Kenyon's death from<br />
leukemia. Other notable collections include The One Day (1988),<br />
which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles<br />
Times Book Prize, and a Pulitzer Prize nomination; The Happy Man<br />
(1986), which won the Lenore Marshall <strong>Poetry</strong> Prize; and Exiles and<br />
Marriages (1955), which was the Academy's Lamont <strong>Poetry</strong><br />
Selection for 1956.<br />
In a review of Hall's recent Selected Poems, Billy Collins wrote in<br />
the Washington Post: “Hall has long been placed in the Frostian<br />
tradition of the plainspoken rural poet... It is a kind of simplicity that<br />
succeeds in engaging the reader in the first few lines.”<br />
Besides poetry, Donald Hall has written books on baseball, the<br />
sculptor Henry Moore, and the poet Marianne Moore. He is also the<br />
author of several children's books and a number of autobiographical<br />
works. He has edited more than two dozen textbooks and<br />
anthologies, and served as poetry editor of The Paris Review from<br />
1953 to 1962.<br />
His honors include the <strong>Poetry</strong> Society of America's Robert Frost<br />
Silver Medal, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the New<br />
Hampshire Writers and Publisher Project, and the Ruth Lilly Prize for<br />
<strong>Poetry</strong>. In June 2006, Hall was appointed the Library of Congress's<br />
fourteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in <strong>Poetry</strong>.<br />
In December 1993 he and Jane Kenyon were the subject of an<br />
Emmy Award winning Bill Moyers documentary, "A Life Together."<br />
He lives in Danbury, New Hampshire.<br />
FRIDAY<br />
17
18<br />
Penelope Shuttle<br />
Fri 16th Oct<br />
8pm<br />
Daghdha Space<br />
Penelope Shuttle has published eight collections of poems since 1980,<br />
including a Selected Poems in 1998 (<strong>Poetry</strong> Book Society<br />
Recommendation). She has also published five novels, and is co-author of<br />
two prose works, The Wise Wound and Alchemy for Women. In 2006<br />
Bloodaxe published Redgrove’s Wife, which was shortlisted for the Forward<br />
Prize and T.S. Eliot Prize. Since 1970 Penelope Shuttle has lived in Falmouth,<br />
Cornwall, and was married to the poet Peter Redgrove, who died in 2003.<br />
Sat 17th Oct<br />
8pm<br />
Daghdha Space<br />
Aonghas MacNeacail<br />
was born in 1942 on the Isle of Skye, and attended<br />
Glasgow University from 1968-1971. He has published<br />
several collections of poems, mostly in Gaelic with<br />
parallel English translations, including An<br />
Seachnadh/The Avoiding (1986) and Oideachadh<br />
Ceart/A Proper Schooling (1996), the latter winning the<br />
1997 Stakis Prize for Scottish Writer of the Year. A<br />
collection of poems in English, Rock and Water,<br />
appeared in 1990. His latest book is a collection of<br />
Gaelic poems, Laoidh an Donais Oig/Hymn to a Young<br />
Demon (2007).<br />
Over a period of 30 years, he has held creative writing<br />
fellowships with various community and educational<br />
bodies, including the Gaelic College in Skye,<br />
Brownsbank (Hugh MacDiarmid's last home), Glasgow<br />
and Strathclyde Universities, and, most recently, in eight<br />
Dumfries and Galloway schools. The latter venture has<br />
resulted in a substantial anthology of pupils' writing.<br />
His work has been widely translated and has appeared<br />
in many magazines and anthologies both in the UK and<br />
abroad. He has written plays and scripts for television<br />
and radio. In 1993 he wrote a four-part documentary<br />
series on Gaelic culture for Scottish Television, and<br />
Driven West, a five-part drama for BBC Radio Scotland,<br />
and has recently worked, as a co-writer, on the feature<br />
film Seachd - The Inaccessible Pinnacle. He has also<br />
collaborated with various musicians, writing libretti and<br />
songs, and has toured all over the world to give recitals<br />
and lectures.<br />
SATURDAY<br />
19
20<br />
Sat 17th Oct<br />
8pm<br />
Daghdha Space<br />
Patrick Moran<br />
was born in Templetuohy, County Tipperary, where<br />
he still lives. He works as a teacher. His poems<br />
have been widely published. A winner of the<br />
Gerad Manley Hopkins <strong>Poetry</strong> Prize, he has also<br />
been shortlisted for the Hennessy / Sunday<br />
Tribune <strong>Poetry</strong> Award. His work is featured in<br />
anthologies, including the inaugural Forward<br />
Anthology. His first collection, The Stubble Fields,<br />
was published in 2001.<br />
Green, Patrick Moran's second collection of poetry<br />
(2008), shows a poet trying to reconcile his rural<br />
heritage with an Ireland in the process of<br />
transition. In doing so, these carefully wrought<br />
poems explore the implications of leaving: the<br />
parting from loved ones, and what is left to us. As<br />
he comes to terms with changing landscapes and<br />
thwarted dreams, the poet concludes: ‘It's all in<br />
the harvesting’. In the face of transience, Moran is<br />
ultimately positive.<br />
Patrick Moran's first collection was widely praised.<br />
Southword noted the poet's "fine eye for the<br />
banal, for seemingly subtle shifts that can have<br />
huge implications"; while The <strong>Poetry</strong> Ireland<br />
Review lauded "a very well-crafted body of work,<br />
poetry that is always lyrical and on occasion truly<br />
startling".<br />
Sat 17th Oct<br />
8pm<br />
Daghdha Space<br />
Fleur Adcock<br />
Fleur Adcock was born in New Zealand. She spent the war years in England,<br />
returning with her family to New Zealand in 1947. She emigrated to Britain<br />
in 1963, working as a librarian in London until 1979. She was Northern Arts<br />
Literary Fellow in 1979-81, living in Newcastle.<br />
She won many awards and honours for her poetry including the<br />
Cholmondeley Award 1976 and the New Zealand National Book Award<br />
1984. She received an OBE in 1996, and the Queen’s Gold Medal for <strong>Poetry</strong><br />
in 2006 for Poems 1960-2000 (Bloodaxe, 2000).<br />
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CUISLE Education Programme<br />
Young Poet of the Year Competition<br />
Programme for Schools<br />
Readings & Workshops for young people<br />
CUISLE Events<br />
Discussion<br />
The Stony Thursday Book Launch<br />
Ciaran O’Driscoll Booklaunch & Reading<br />
White House Events<br />
events<br />
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education<br />
programme<br />
YOUNG POET<br />
OF THE YEAR<br />
COMPETITION<br />
For further information on any of the events contact:<br />
Arts Service Limerick City Council<br />
Tel: 061 407421 or www.limerickcity.ie<br />
<strong>Cuisle</strong> Young Poet of the Year Competition invites young people to<br />
write a poem or three poems.<br />
This competition is promoted by <strong>Cuisle</strong>, Limerick City International<br />
<strong>Poetry</strong> <strong>Festival</strong>. Winners will be invited to read during the festival in<br />
October and prizes will be awarded at a special Award Ceremony.<br />
Entries are invited in 3 categories<br />
1 Under 12 years<br />
2 12-15 years<br />
3 16-18 years<br />
The competition will be judged by:<br />
Paddy Bushe<br />
Gabriel Fitzmaurice<br />
Bertha McCullagh<br />
Mark Whelan<br />
YOUNG POET<br />
OF THE YEAR<br />
COMPETITION<br />
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Thurs 15th<br />
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Readings for<br />
Second Level Schools<br />
Workshops,<br />
Readings for Schools<br />
<strong>Poetry</strong> Master Classes<br />
Second Level<br />
Readings for Second<br />
Level Schools<br />
Workshops,<br />
Readings for Schools<br />
Young Poet<br />
of the Year<br />
POETS<br />
PROGRAMME<br />
FOR SCHOOLS<br />
10am<br />
Paul Muldoon Daghdha Space, John’s Square Morning Reading<br />
Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill : Lidija Dimkovska 11.30am Daghdha Space, John’s Square Mid-morning Reading<br />
John Davies<br />
Gabriel Fitzmaurice : Tim Cunningham<br />
John Davies : Iztok Ozojnik<br />
Award Cermony 11am<br />
Daghdha Space, John’s Square Young Poet of the<br />
Year Award Ceremony<br />
The <strong>Cuisle</strong> Schools' Programme provides an opportunity for students to hear and meet with poets, who this year include leading Irish Poets, as well as many international poets.<br />
10.30am<br />
9.30am to<br />
3.30pm<br />
City Library, The Granary, Limerick<br />
Dominican Biblical Centre,<br />
Cecil Street<br />
Reading /Workshop<br />
Day-long Masterclasses<br />
Session 1 9:30am<br />
Lunch 12 noon<br />
Session 2 1:00pm<br />
Fleur Adcock : Donald Hall 11.30am Daghdha Space, John’s Square Mid-morning Reading<br />
Lidija Dimkovska 10.30am City Library, The Granary, Limerick Reading /Workshop<br />
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PROGRAMME FOR SCHOOLS :<br />
Poets<br />
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Paul Muldoon<br />
Paul Muldoon was born in County Armagh, Northern Ireland, and educated in<br />
Armagh and at the Queen's University of Belfast. Since 1987, he has lived in the<br />
United States, where he is now Howard G. B. Clark '21 Professor at Princeton<br />
University and Chair of the Peter B. Lewis Center for the Arts. In 2003 he won The<br />
Pulitzer Prize and in 2007 he was appointed <strong>Poetry</strong> Editor of The New Yorker.<br />
Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill<br />
Nuala Ní Dhómhnaill was born in the North of England and raised in Ventry (Dingle<br />
Gaelteacht) Co. Kerry. She is one of Ireland’s best poets. Among her books are An<br />
Dealg Droighin; Féar Suithinseach; (versions in English by Michael Hartnett) and a<br />
full collection Selected Poems/Rogha Dánta. She is a member of Aosdána, and<br />
was editor of the Modern Irish <strong>Poetry</strong> section of Field Day Anthology of Irish<br />
Writing, Vols. 4 & 5 (2002).<br />
Lidija Dimkovska<br />
was born in Skopje, Macedonia. She is a poet, essayist and translator. She took a<br />
Ph.D. degree in Romanian Literature at the University of Bucharest, and for several<br />
years she worked there as lecturer in Macedonian Language and Literature. Now she<br />
lives in Ljubljana, Slovenia, as a free-lance writer and translator of Romanian and<br />
Slovenian Literature in Macedonian.<br />
John Davies<br />
John Davies is a writer and poet based in Brighton, on England’s south coast. His<br />
first collection The Nutter in the Shrubbery was published by Pighog<br />
(www.pighog.co.uk) in 2002. In the same year he won an award for his first<br />
residency as his alter ego Shedman (www.shedman.net). Shedman has gone on to<br />
feature at numerous festivals and events (including <strong>Cuisle</strong> in October 2005). His<br />
first full collection Shedman was published in January 2008.<br />
See <strong>Festival</strong> Guide Page 2-3<br />
Gabriel Fitzmaurice<br />
Gabriel Fitzmaurice was born in Moyvane, Co. Kerry where he still lives. He is<br />
author of more than twenty books, including poetry in English and Irish,<br />
children's verse in English and Irish, translations from the Irish, essays, and<br />
collections of songs and ballads. An award winner at the Gerard Manley<br />
Hopkins Centenary <strong>Poetry</strong> Competition, he has twice represented Ireland at the<br />
European <strong>Festival</strong> of <strong>Poetry</strong> in Louvain, Belgium.<br />
Tim Cunningham<br />
Tim Cunningham was born in Limerick. He was educated at C.B.S., Limerick,<br />
and Birkbeck College, London. His first collection of poetry, Don Marcelino’s<br />
Daughter, was published by Peterloo in 2001. His second collection Unequal<br />
Thirds published by Peterloo, was launched at <strong>Cuisle</strong> 2006. Tim Cunningham<br />
has said that many of the poems in Unequal Thirds “are rooted in Limerick, the<br />
‘urbs antiqua’ I left at eighteen” and to which he regularly returns.<br />
Iztok Ozojnik<br />
Iztok Osojnik was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Poet, fiction writer, essayist,<br />
translator, artist, tour director, mountain climber. His many professions have<br />
taken him all around the world. A former director of the Vilenica International<br />
Literary <strong>Festival</strong>, and currently together with Ana Jelnikar organizes The Golden<br />
Boat International <strong>Poetry</strong> Translation Workshop. Editor of Apokalipsa and Tvrđa<br />
magazines as well as of an Internet literary magazine Sidaja.<br />
Donald Hall<br />
Donald Hall was born in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. He began writing as an<br />
adolescent and had his first work published at the age of sixteen. He has published<br />
numerous books of poetry. He was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize with The Happy<br />
Man (1986), which won the Lenore Marshall <strong>Poetry</strong> Prize; and Exiles and<br />
Marriages (1955). He was poet Laurate in 2006.<br />
Fleur Adcock<br />
Fleur Adcock was born in New Zealand. She spent the war years in England,<br />
returning with her family to New Zealand in 1947. She emigrated to Britain in<br />
1963, working as a librarian in London until 1979. She has won many awards and<br />
honours for her poetry including the Cholmondeley Award 1976 and the New<br />
Zealand National Book Award 1984. She received an OBE in 1996, and the<br />
Queen’s Gold Medal for <strong>Poetry</strong> in 2006 for Poems 1960-2000 (Bloodaxe, 2000).<br />
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events<br />
Discussion<br />
The Crisis in Publishing<br />
This year a presentation on publishing in the recession will be<br />
given by Original Writing Limited.<br />
Original Writing is an Irish self publishing company based in<br />
Smithfield, Dublin. Founded in 2006, and have helped over 100<br />
Irish authors successfully publish their books. The presentation<br />
will take aspiring authors through the various steps involved in<br />
self-publishing.<br />
DISCUSSION<br />
Following this presentation, there will be a discussion, the aim<br />
of which will be to fit the issue of self-publishing into the current<br />
culture in the world of books. Related issues are the perceived<br />
‘dumbing down’ of literary quality and reader-appreciation; the<br />
takeover of small presses by large conglomerates; digitilisation,<br />
e-books, the ‘Google Settlement’ and their future consequences;<br />
book piracy on the internet; the author’s necessity of fame, as<br />
epitomised by this quote from novelist Cory Doctorow:<br />
I really feel that my problem isn’t piracy. It’s obscurity.<br />
Thursday 15th October<br />
2.30pm<br />
Limerick City Gallery of Art<br />
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The Stony<br />
Thursday<br />
Book No. 8<br />
(New Series)<br />
Edited by<br />
Ciaran O’Driscoll<br />
Thurs 15th Oct<br />
7pm<br />
Daghdha Space<br />
Founded in 1975 by John Liddy and Jim Burke, The Stony Thursday Book is now<br />
thirty-four years of age. The current issue features work from poets of international<br />
stature and fame, such as Fleur Adcock, Penelope Shuttle, the Scots Gaelic poet<br />
Aonghas MacNeacail, Pulitzer Prizewinners Paul Muldoon and Robert Hass, and<br />
Limerick’s master craftsman, Desmond O’Grady. Many well-known Irish and UK<br />
poets are represented, and there are translations from eminent Central European<br />
poets: Slovenians Iztok Osojnik, Taja Kramberger and Veronika Dintinjana, as well as<br />
Lidija Dimkovska, a Macedonian poet now residing in Ljubljana. A number of the<br />
poets included are participants in this year’s festival.<br />
There is a generous selection of poems from less prominent voices, poets beginning<br />
to come to public notice. Editor Ciaran O’Driscoll writes in his Preface:<br />
“One of the pleasures of editing this issue was to be moved, or amused, or struck<br />
with admiration by, a poem from someone I was not previously aware of, or<br />
whose work I only vaguely knew. I hope that the reader will derive as much<br />
pleasure from browsing, as I did from editing, The Stony Thursday Book, New<br />
Series, No 8.”<br />
Friday 16th Oct<br />
7pm<br />
Daghdha Space<br />
Life Monitor<br />
Published by:<br />
Three Spires Press<br />
Ciaran O’Driscoll Life Monitor Th<br />
Life Monitor<br />
Poems<br />
Ciaran O’Driscoll<br />
Ciaran O’Driscoll<br />
Ciaran O’Driscoll was born in Co Kilkenny in 1943, and lives in Limerick. He has<br />
published eight books of poetry including Moving On, Still There: New and Selected<br />
Poems (Dedalus Press, 2001) and more recently Surreal Man, a chapbook of 21<br />
poems (Pighog, 2006), and Vecchie Donne di Magione, a dual language edition of<br />
poems in an Italian setting (Volumnia Editrice, 2006). In 2001, Liverpool University<br />
Press published his childhood memoir, A Runner Among Falling Leaves. He has won<br />
a number of awards for his work, among them the Patrick and Katherine Kavanagh<br />
Fellowship in <strong>Poetry</strong>. In 2007, he was elected to Aosdána.<br />
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White House Events<br />
Thurs 15 Oct<br />
9pm<br />
The White House Pub<br />
Book Launch -<br />
Revival 13<br />
Fringe Event<br />
Thurs 15th - Fri 16th<br />
9.30pm<br />
The White House Pub<br />
Open Mic<br />
Sat 17th<br />
9.30pm<br />
The White House Pub<br />
<strong>Poetry</strong> Grand Slam<br />
Map of Limerick<br />
STEAMBOAT QUAY<br />
DOCK RD<br />
ST ALPHONSUS ST<br />
O’CURRY ST<br />
Venues:<br />
ENNIS RD<br />
SHANNON BRIDGE<br />
WINDMILL ST<br />
O’CALLAGHAN’S STRAND SARSFIELD BRIDGE<br />
BISHOP’S BISHOP’S QUAY QUAY HOWLEYS QY HARVEYS QY<br />
HARTSTONGE ST<br />
NEWENHAM ST<br />
1 Daghdha Space, John’s Square<br />
2 Limerick City Library<br />
3 The White House<br />
7<br />
MALLOW ST<br />
3<br />
HENRY ST<br />
CECIL ST<br />
GLENTWORTH ST<br />
PERY SQUARE<br />
4<br />
O’CONNELL ST<br />
PEOPLE’S<br />
PARK<br />
ARTHUR’S<br />
QUAY<br />
PARK<br />
ROCHES ST<br />
WILLIAM ST<br />
THOMAS ST<br />
ARTHUR’S QUAY<br />
PATRICK ST<br />
4 Limerick City Gallery of Art<br />
5 Dominican Biblical Centre<br />
6 Absolute Hotel<br />
5<br />
DENMARK ST<br />
PARNELL ST<br />
RUTLAND ST<br />
NICHOLAS ST<br />
BRIDGE ST<br />
2<br />
ROBERT ST<br />
GEORGE’S QUAY<br />
CHARLOTTE’S QUAY<br />
UPR WILLIAM ST<br />
UPR GERALD GRIFFIN ST LR GERALD GRIFFIN ST<br />
7 Shannon Rowing Club<br />
ATHLUNKARD ST<br />
N7<br />
BAALS BR<br />
BROAD ST<br />
6<br />
ROXBOROUGH RD<br />
JOHN’S<br />
SQUARE<br />
MULGRAVE ST<br />
GROVE<br />
ISLAND<br />
CLARE ST<br />
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Grant aided by:<br />
Supported by:<br />
Committee:<br />
Sheila Deegan : Bertha McCullagh : Ciaran O’Driscoll<br />
Barney Sheehan : Mark Whelan<br />
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