Cuisle 2009 Brochure - Cuisle Poetry Festival

Mayors Address 1
Festival Guide 2
CUISLE Poets- biographies and reading times 4
Vivienne McKechnie 6
Paul Muldoon 7
John O’Donoghue 8
Lidija Dimkovska 9
Maurice Riordan 10
Paul Sweeney 11
Ulick O’Connor 12
Taja Kramberger 13
Catherine Smith 14
Clairr O’Connor 15
Robert Hass 16
Donald Hall 17
Penelope Shuttle 18
Aonghas MacNeacail 19
Patrick Moran 20
Fleur Adcock 21
CUISLE Events 22
CUISLE Education Programme 24
Young Poet of the Year Competition 25
Programme for Schools 26
Programme for Schools : Poets 28
CUISLE Events 30
Discussion 31
The Stony Thursday Book Launch 32
Life Monitor - Ciaran O’Driscoll : Booklaunch 33
White House Events 34
Fringe Event : Speakeasy Jazz 34
Map of locations in Limerick 35
Grant Aided/Sponsors/Committee 36
Cuisle Limerick City International Poetry Festival was inaugurated by Limerick poet Noel
Bourke, in 1990. In 1992 Limerick poets Mark Whelan and Paul Sweeny took up the baton
and inaugurated Cuisle Limerick City International Poetry Festival as a bi-annual Festival
with the support of The Arts Office in Limerick City Council. The festival grew slowly but
steadily. In 2000 it was decided to make Cuisle Limerick City International Poetry
Festival a yearly event.
2009 sees Cuisle Limerick City International Poetry Festival celebrating its fourteenth
season with a line up which can only be described as its most prestigious to date.
In keeping with its goal to establish Limerick City as a centre of excellence for poetry
locally, nationally, and internationally, this year Cuisle hosts some of the most important
and influential figures from the world of contemporary poetry, including two former
American Poet Laureates, Donald Hall and Robert Hass; Pulitzer Prize Winners Paul
Muldoon (Ireland) and Robert Hass (America), and New Zealand and U.K. and OBE
recipient Fleur Adcock, to name but a few of the prominent award-winning poets
attending this year’s festival.
This year the Cuisle Programme for schools includes readings, workshops and masterclasses
for second level schools. Booking is essential for these events and can be made
through the Belltable Arts Centre on 061 310633.
Limerick’s long association with poetry makes this festival the perfect place to enjoy
convivial discussion, lunchtime readings, book launches, readings and workshops with the
leading contemporary poets of our time. We hope you enjoy your time at this important
Poetry Festival in Limerick.
Cllr Kevin Kiely
Mayor of Limerick
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