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16 Fri 16th Oct 8pm Daghdha Space Robert Hass Robert Hass was born in San Francisco and lives in Berkeley, California, where he teaches at the University of California. A MacArthur Fellow, a two-time winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the winner, in 2008, of the National Book Award as well as the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, he has published poems, literary essays and translations. He served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997, during which time he organised a campaign against illiteracy and founded River of Words, an organization that promotes environmental and arts education in affiliation with the Library of Congress Center for the Book. He believes that poets, especially, need to pay constant attention to the interaction of mind and environment. Robert Hass has published the following collections of poetry: Field Guide, Praise, Human Wishes, Sun Under Wood, and Time and Materials, as well as a book of essays on poetry, Twentieth Century Pleasures. He has translated many of the works of Nobel Prize-winning Polish poet, Czeslaw Milosz, and edited Selected Poems 1954-1986 by Thomas Tranströmer, and The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson, and Issa. In spring 2010, Ecco Press will publish The Apple Trees at Olema: Selected Poems & Essays, 1985-2009, and a collection of selected essays. Fri 16th Oct 8pm Daghdha Space Donald Hall Donald Hall was born in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1928. He began writing as an adolescent and had his first work published at the age of sixteen. He has published numerous books of poetry, most recently White Apples and the Taste of Stone: Selected Poems 1946-2006 (Houghton Mifflin, 2006); The Painted Bed (2002) and Without: Poems (1998), which was published on the third anniversary of his wife and fellow poet Jane Kenyon's death from leukemia. Other notable collections include The One Day (1988), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and a Pulitzer Prize nomination; The Happy Man (1986), which won the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize; and Exiles and Marriages (1955), which was the Academy's Lamont Poetry Selection for 1956. In a review of Hall's recent Selected Poems, Billy Collins wrote in the Washington Post: “Hall has long been placed in the Frostian tradition of the plainspoken rural poet... It is a kind of simplicity that succeeds in engaging the reader in the first few lines.” Besides poetry, Donald Hall has written books on baseball, the sculptor Henry Moore, and the poet Marianne Moore. He is also the author of several children's books and a number of autobiographical works. He has edited more than two dozen textbooks and anthologies, and served as poetry editor of The Paris Review from 1953 to 1962. His honors include the Poetry Society of America's Robert Frost Silver Medal, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the New Hampshire Writers and Publisher Project, and the Ruth Lilly Prize for Poetry. In June 2006, Hall was appointed the Library of Congress's fourteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry. In December 1993 he and Jane Kenyon were the subject of an Emmy Award winning Bill Moyers documentary, "A Life Together." He lives in Danbury, New Hampshire. FRIDAY 17
18 Penelope Shuttle Fri 16th Oct 8pm Daghdha Space Penelope Shuttle has published eight collections of poems since 1980, including a Selected Poems in 1998 (Poetry Book Society Recommendation). She has also published five novels, and is co-author of two prose works, The Wise Wound and Alchemy for Women. In 2006 Bloodaxe published Redgrove’s Wife, which was shortlisted for the Forward Prize and T.S. Eliot Prize. Since 1970 Penelope Shuttle has lived in Falmouth, Cornwall, and was married to the poet Peter Redgrove, who died in 2003. Sat 17th Oct 8pm Daghdha Space Aonghas MacNeacail was born in 1942 on the Isle of Skye, and attended Glasgow University from 1968-1971. He has published several collections of poems, mostly in Gaelic with parallel English translations, including An Seachnadh/The Avoiding (1986) and Oideachadh Ceart/A Proper Schooling (1996), the latter winning the 1997 Stakis Prize for Scottish Writer of the Year. A collection of poems in English, Rock and Water, appeared in 1990. His latest book is a collection of Gaelic poems, Laoidh an Donais Oig/Hymn to a Young Demon (2007). Over a period of 30 years, he has held creative writing fellowships with various community and educational bodies, including the Gaelic College in Skye, Brownsbank (Hugh MacDiarmid's last home), Glasgow and Strathclyde Universities, and, most recently, in eight Dumfries and Galloway schools. The latter venture has resulted in a substantial anthology of pupils' writing. His work has been widely translated and has appeared in many magazines and anthologies both in the UK and abroad. He has written plays and scripts for television and radio. In 1993 he wrote a four-part documentary series on Gaelic culture for Scottish Television, and Driven West, a five-part drama for BBC Radio Scotland, and has recently worked, as a co-writer, on the feature film Seachd - The Inaccessible Pinnacle. He has also collaborated with various musicians, writing libretti and songs, and has toured all over the world to give recitals and lectures. SATURDAY 19
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