Cal Doyle, currently a student on our MA in Irish Writing and Film, is the featured poet in the Winter 2014-15 issue of The Stinging Fly.
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John Fitzgerald in the Southern Star!
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Poetry Reading by John FitzGerald, UCC Librarian
Winner of the 2014 Kavanagh Poetry Award
Tuesday, October 21st
5:30-7:00 pm
Library Learning Space
Boole Library
You are cordially invited to a unique celebration of the Cork and UCC poetic traditions, a poetry reading by UCC Librarian John Fitzgerald, winner of the 2014 Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award.
Also reading will be runners-up and highly commended entrants Kevin Clancy, Lena Cronin, and John Mee.
Jointly hosted by the School of English & Library Services at UCC
All are very welcome
UCC Library & The Glucksman Gallery present The Great Book of Ireland Saturday Workshops
Book-binding and Book Conservation – with Paul Curtis (Conservator, Muckross Bindery)
Saturday 7 June 10am -4pm
A Poetry Workshop – with acclaimed poet, Matthew Sweeney
Saturday 21 June 10am – 4pm
A Calligraphy Workshop suitable for beginners – with Denis Brown (The Scribe of The Great Book of Ireland) Saturday 28 June 10am-4pm
All Workshops are Free. Bookings are essential.
A number of free places on each workshop will be held for UCC Staff & Students
(part of the Faces Pages exhibition programme. For bookings see www.glucksman.org or tel : 021 4901844)
Reading by Patrick McGuinness
Please join us for a reading by distinguished poet, novelist, and memoirist Patrick McGuinness, who will read in UCC on Thursday 29th May at 6pm (Room G27, O’Rahilly Building).
Professor of French and Fellow of St Anne’s College, Oxford, Patrick McGuinness’s novel, The Last Hundred Days was longlisted for the Man Booker prize in 2011. His two volumes of poetry, Canals of Mars (2004) and Jilted City (2010) were published by Carcanet. Most recently, in Other People’s Countries (Jonathan Cape, 2014), he has published an account of childhood experiences in Bouillon, Belgium, and his memories of his Belgian and Irish parents.
Following its publication in March, Other People’s Countries has received glowing reviews : in the Observer, John Banville said that ‘McGuinness is a marvellous writer – literally, his book is filled with marvels – who, in John Updike’s formulation, gives the ordinary its beautiful due. The world that is conjured in Other People’s Countries is clear, palpable and distant, like a view seen through the wrong end of a telescope. On every page there are breathtakingly gorgeous images, similes, metaphors.’
Patrick McGuinness’s academic books include Maurice Maeterlinck and the Making of Modern Theatre (Oxford UP, 2000), Symbolism, Decadence and the fin de siecle (University of Exeter Press, 2000). Amongst other editions, he has has edited J-K Huysmans, Against Nature for Penguin Classics and the prose and poems of the Welsh modernist poet Lynette Roberts for Carcanet.