Thursday 18th May @ 10.00pm

Cork International Poetry Festival
Harry Clifton & Carolyn Forché

Harry Clifton was born in Dublin and educated at University College Dublin. After graduating he began an extended period of life outside Ireland, lecturing at a Teacher Training College in West Africa and working as an aid administrator in Indochina. After spells in Italy, England and Germany, he settled with his wife the Irish novelist Deirdre Madden for ten years in Paris, a decade recorded in Secular Eden: Paris Notebooks 1994-2004 (Wake Forest University Press 2008). Since 2004 he has lived in Ireland, and teaches at Trinity College Dublin.

Carolyn Forché is the author of five award-winning books of poetry. The most recent, In the Lateness of the World (Penguin Press, 2020) was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She is also the author of the memoir What You Have Heard Is True (Penguin Press, 2019), a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the Juan E. Mendez Book Award for Human Rights in Latin America. Her famed international anthology, Against Forgetting, has been praised by Nelson Mandela as “itself a blow against tyranny, against prejudice, against injustice.” She is a Distinguished University Professor at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.

Tickets: €5
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