Litríocht - Literature

MAYO COUNTY COUNCIL

Arts office, Áras an Chontae, The Mall, Castlebar, Co. Mayo

T: 094 9024444, exts 7558 & 7560

All Ireland Poetry Day

As part of All Ireland Poetry Day, Mayo Arts Office & Mayo County Library are delighted to present Anne Le Marquand Hartigan & John F.Deane who will give a reading in Mayo County Library, Castlebar on Thursday October 7th @ 6.30pm. Admission Free, All welcome.

John F. Deane

Born Achill Island 1943; founded Poetry Ireland - the National Poetry Society - and The Poetry Ireland Review, 1979; Published several collections of poetry and some fiction; Won the O’Shaughnessy Award for Irish Poetry, the Marten Toonder Award for Literature and poetry prizes from Italy and Romania. Elected Secretary-General of the European Academy of Poetry in 1996. Shortlisted for both the T.S.Eliot prize and The Irish Times Poetry Now Award, won residencies in Bavaria, Monaco and Paris. Latest poetry collection “The Instruments of Art”, Carcanet 2005; “In Dogged Loyalty”, essays on religious poetry, Columba 2006; latest fiction “The Heather Fields and Other Stories,” Blackstaff Press 2007. His latest poetry collection, “A Little Book of Hours”, came from Carcanet in 2008. He is a member of Aosdána, the body established by the Arts Council to honour artists “whose work had made an outstanding contribution to the arts in Ireland”. In 2007 the French Government honoured him by making him “Chevalier de l’ordre des arts et des lettres”. In 2008 John F. Deane was visiting scholar in the Burns Library of Boston College.

Anne Le Marquand Hartigan

Anne Le Marquand Hartigan is an award winning poet, playwright, painter, short fiction, and prose writer, her many awards include; The Mobil Prize for Playwriting for her play The Secret Game, 1995, The Open Poetry Award Listowel, 1978 and many others. She has published five collections of poetry, Nourishment, in 2005, Immortal Sins 1993, Now is a Moveable Feast, her long poem in 1991, with drawings by herself, all published by Salmon. Return Single, 1986, Long Tongue, 1982, published by Beaver Row Press, Dublin. Her sixth collection To Keep the Light Burning, is due from Salmon this summer. Her book of prose, a meditation on writing, Clearing the Space, was published by Salmon 1996, is presently translated and published this June 2008 in Spanish. Of her six full length plays Beds 1982 and La Corbiere 1989, were premiered at the Dublin Theatre Festival. Jersey Lilies premiered at the Samuel Becket Theatre Dublin 1996. Her play In Other Worlds, was commissioned by Ohio Northern University. La Corbiere is published in Seen and Heard, plays by six Irish women, edited by Cathy Leeney, and published by Carysfort Press, Dublin. 2001. She has had one woman and two person shows of her art in Ireland and England as well as exhibiting in major group shows, here and in the UK and won awards for her work in batik.

Ballina Arts Centre

Ballina Civic Offices, Arran Place, Ballina, Co. Mayo.

T: 096 73593

E: ballinaartscentre@gmail.net

W: www.ballinaartscentre.com

Poetry Reading: Ger Reidy & Terry McDonagh

Thursday 7th October, 8pm

To celebrate All-Ireland Poetry Day, Ballina Arts Centre is presenting a reading by two of Mayo’s most distinguished poets: Ger Reidy and Terry McDonagh.

Both have read at Ballina Arts Centre before, and we are delighted to welcome them back to celebrate the recent publications of collections from each.

Ger Reidy was born near Westport in Co. Mayo His poems have appeared in publications including The Healing Word, Breaking the Skin, Ambit, Poetry Ireland Review, Cyphers, Force 10, The Shop, and in 2003 the Moscow poetry journal 'Modern Literature' His first collection, Pictures From a Reservation, was published by Dedalus in 1998. His second, Drifting Under the Moon (Dedalus) was published earlier this year, and reveals an increased awareness of his craft, and a broadening and deepening of his vision.

Terry McDonagh is a poet, dramatist and teacher, from Kiltimagh, Co. Mayo. His books include the poetry collections The Road Out, At Home In My Shoes, A World Without Stone/New and Selected Poems, A Song for Joanna, Hamburg-Melbourne A Journal in Verse, Kiltimagh and Boxes, as well as a novel for children, One Summer in Ireland. His work has been translated into a number of languages. The Truth in Mustard (Arlen House, 2010), was published earlier this year. Adm: €5 (€3 concession).