Friday 19th May @ 8.30pm

Cork International Poetry Festival
Eva Bourke & Fran Lock

Eva Bourke is a poet and translator. She has published seven collections of poetry, most recently Seeing Yellow (Dedalus, 2018) and several anthologies and collections in translation. Together with Borbála Farragó she edited the anthology Landing Places: Immigrant Poets in Ireland (Dedalus, 2011) and with Vincent Woods Fermata: Writings Inspired by Music (Artisan House, 2017). In 2020 she was nominated for the Irish Times Poetry Now Prize and the same year was awarded the Michael Hartnett Prize for Poetry. She is a member of Aosdána.

Fran Lock is a some-time itinerant dog whisperer, the author of numerous chapbooks and ten poetry collections. Her most recent chapbook is Forever Alive (Dare-Gale Press, 2022), and her most recent collections are Hyena! (Poetry Bus Press, 2022) and White/ Other (87 Press, 2022). A new collection of poems, a disgusting lie is due from Pamenar Press later this year, and a book of hybrid essays on feral subjectivity, inspired by her work with the Cambridge University Library bestiary, is forthcoming from Out-Spoken Press, also in 2023. She is a proud pit bull parent, and she edits the Soul Food column for Communist Review.

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