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Fleur Adcock : Tim Cunningham : John Davies : Lidija Dimkovska : Gabriel Fitzmaurice Donald Hall : Robert Hass : Taja Kramberger : Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill Aonghas MacNeacail : Vivienne McKechnie : Patrick Moran : Paul Muldoon Clairr O’Connor : Ulick O’Connor : Ciaran O’Driscoll : John O’Donoghue : Iztok Ozojnik Maurice Riordan : Penelope Shuttle : Catherine Smith : Paul Sweeney : Mark Whelan 4 poets biographies and reading times 5
6 Limerick City International POETRY FESTIVAL Vivienne McKechnie Vivienne McKechnie was born in Dublin and now lives in Limerick. She is a graduate of Trinity College and is a teacher of English . She taught in Dublin, Kenya where she lived for four and a half years - and Limerick. She has taught courses on The Modern Novel, The Short Story and on Jennifer Johnston in the University of Limerick. She also gave a series of lectures on W. B. Yeats to the Mid Western English Teachers’ Association. She is a published poet, her work appearing in Stony Thursday, Revival and the Limerick Leader. She has read her work on Lyric FM and in The White House. Vivienne is currently working on a collection of poetry. Wed 14th Oct 1.15pm Limerick City Gallery of Art Wed 14th Oct 8pm Daghdha Space Paul Muldoon Paul Muldoon was born in 1951 in County Armagh, Northern Ireland, and educated in Armagh and at the Queen's University of Belfast. From 1973 to 1986 he worked in Belfast as a radio and television producer for the BBC. Since 1987, he has lived in the United States, where he is now Howard G. B. Clark '21 Professor at Princeton University and Chair of the Peter B. Lewis Center for the Arts. In 2007 he was appointed Poetry Editor of The New Yorker. Between 1999 and 2004 he was Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford, where he is an honorary Fellow of Hertford College. Paul Muldoon's main collections of poetry are New Weather (1973), Mules (1977), Why Brownlee Left (1980), Quoof (1983), Meeting The British (1987), Madoc: A Mystery (1990), The Annals of Chile (1994), Kerry Slides (1996), Hay (1998), Poems 1968-1998 (2001) and Moy Sand and Gravel (2002), for which he won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize. His tenth collection, Horse Latitudes, appeared in the fall of 2006. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Paul Muldoon was given an American Academy of Arts and Letters award in Literature for 1996. Other recent awards are the 1994 T. S. Eliot Prize, the 1997 Irish Times Poetry Prize, The Pulitzer Prize 2003, the 2003 Griffin International Prize for Excellence in Poetry, the 2004 American Ireland Fund Literary Award, the 2004 Shakespeare Prize, the 2005 Aspen Prize for Poetry, and the 2006 European Prize for Poetry. He has been described by The Times Literary Supplement as "the most significant English-language poet born since the second World War." WEDNESDAY 7
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