Friday 19th May @ 7.00pm
Cork International Poetry Festival
Abigail Parry & Ceaití Ní Bheildiúin
Abigail Parry spent seven years as a toymaker before completing her doctoral thesis on wordplay. Her poems have been set to music, translated into Spanish and Japanese, broadcast on BBC and RTÉ Radio, and widely published in journals and anthologies. She has won a number of prizes and awards for her work, including the Ballymaloe Prize, the Troubadour Prize, and an Eric Gregory Award. Her first collection, Jinx, published by Bloodaxe Books in 2018, was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection 2018 and the Seamus Heaney Centre First Collection Poetry Prize 2019. Her second collection, I Think We’re Alone Now, is published by Bloodaxe Books in 2023.
Ceaití Ní Bheildiúin is an Irish language poet. Two recent publications now present her in translation. Let the Hare Sit / Lig don nGiorria Suí (Dedalus Press, 2022) is a bilingual volume with translations to English by Paddy Bushe, comprising a selection of poems drawn from Ní Bheiliúin’s published works to date. Translating Brandon Mountain / Agallamh leis an gCnoc (Ponc Press, 2022) is a limited edition short selection with translations to English by David Knowles. Four volumes of Ní Bheildiúin’s original Irish language poetry were published by Coiscéim.
Tickets: €5
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