Cuisle 2009 Brochure - Cuisle Poetry Festival

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Thurs 15th Oct
8pm
Daghdha Space
Ulick O’Connor
Ulick O’Connor is a biographer, poet and playwright.
His biographies include Oliver St John Gogarty,
Brendan Behan and the much praised Celtic Dawn,
a biography of the Irish Literary Renaissance. As a
poet he is best known for his verse-plays in the Noh
form which were first produced in the Abbey
Theatre in 1977 and at the Dublin Theatre Festival in
1979, later going to an off-Broadway production in
1981 at the Theatre of the Open Eye.
Alongside Ulick O'Connor's prodigious literary output
as biographer, playwright, literary historian and
critic, he has been writing and publishing
memorable poetry for more than four decades. His
engagement with his subject matter, his deft use of
form, craft, and above all lyricism, define these
poems and make it a pleasure to rediscover them or
encounter them for the first time.
His first book of poems Life Styles was published by
Hamish Hamilton and Dolmen Press in 1975. He
went on to write five others, among them All Things
Counter (1985), and One is Animate (1990). His
translations of Baudelaire were published by
Wolfhound Press in 1995. The book received an
outstanding reception, and was highly praised by
Michel Déon of Académie Francaise.
Thurs 15th Oct
8pm
Daghdha Space
Taja Kramberger
Taja Kramberger (1970) is a poet, historical anthropologist, essayist and translator. She is
the Editor-in-Chief of the Monitor ZSA – Review of Historical, Social and Other
Anthropologies, published by University of Primorska Koper (Publishing house Annales). She
lives in Koper and is employed at the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Primorska
(Littoral) in Koper. So far she has published seven books of poetry, four of them in
Slovenian: Marcipan (Marzipan, 1997), Spregovori morje (The Sea Says, 1999), Žametni
indigo (Velvet Indigo, 2004), Vsakdanji pogovori (Everyday Talks, 2006), Opus quinque
dierum (2009). A book of her poetry, Gegenströmung/Protitok (Counter–Current, 2002), was
published in a bibliophilic edition by the Austrian publisher Edition Thanhäuser in
Ottensheim. Her fifth collection, a multi-lingual work, Mobilizacije / Mobilizations /
Mobilisations / Mobilitazioni, was published in 2004 by Associations Tropos Ljubljana &
Zrakogled Koper. Her poems have appeared in various literary anthologies and reviews in
Slovenian and other languages. She participated in numerous international literary festivals
around Europe and in Canada. She translates literature (books of Michele Obit, Neringa
Abrutyte and Roberto Juarroz) and scientific texts (De Certeau, Bourdieu, Chartier, Valensi,
Wacquant etc.) into Slovenian, and has published many essays and articles on literature.
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