Wednesday 17th May @ 8.30pm

Cork International Poetry Festival
John Kelly & Aleš Šteger

John Kelly is from Enniskillen in Co. Fermanagh. His first collection, Notions, was published by Dedalus Press in 2018. A second collection, Space, was published in 2022.

Aleš Šteger is a poet and prose writer from Ljubljana, Slovenia. His books have been translated into over 20 languages. Aleš is the programme director of Beletrina Academic Press, which he co-founded 25 years ago. He has initiated and led European-wide art projects, most notably Versopolis – a European platform for emerging poets and international poetry festivals. He received the title Chevalier des Artes et Lettres from the French state and is a member of the Berlin Academy of Arts and of the German Academy for Language and Literature. His latest English book is Burning Tongues: New and Selected Poems (Bloodaxe, 2022).

Tickets: €5
*Booking fees apply.