Cuisle 2009 Brochure - Cuisle Poetry Festival

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Sat 17th Oct
8pm
Daghdha Space
Patrick Moran
was born in Templetuohy, County Tipperary, where
he still lives. He works as a teacher. His poems
have been widely published. A winner of the
Gerad Manley Hopkins Poetry Prize, he has also
been shortlisted for the Hennessy / Sunday
Tribune Poetry Award. His work is featured in
anthologies, including the inaugural Forward
Anthology. His first collection, The Stubble Fields,
was published in 2001.
Green, Patrick Moran's second collection of poetry
(2008), shows a poet trying to reconcile his rural
heritage with an Ireland in the process of
transition. In doing so, these carefully wrought
poems explore the implications of leaving: the
parting from loved ones, and what is left to us. As
he comes to terms with changing landscapes and
thwarted dreams, the poet concludes: ‘It's all in
the harvesting’. In the face of transience, Moran is
ultimately positive.
Patrick Moran's first collection was widely praised.
Southword noted the poet's "fine eye for the
banal, for seemingly subtle shifts that can have
huge implications"; while The Poetry Ireland
Review lauded "a very well-crafted body of work,
poetry that is always lyrical and on occasion truly
startling".
Sat 17th Oct
8pm
Daghdha Space
Fleur Adcock
Fleur Adcock was born in New Zealand. She spent the war years in England,
returning with her family to New Zealand in 1947. She emigrated to Britain
in 1963, working as a librarian in London until 1979. She was Northern Arts
Literary Fellow in 1979-81, living in Newcastle.
She won many awards and honours for her poetry including the
Cholmondeley Award 1976 and the New Zealand National Book Award
1984. She received an OBE in 1996, and the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry
in 2006 for Poems 1960-2000 (Bloodaxe, 2000).
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