Saturday 20th May @ 10.00pm

Cork International Poetry Festival
Poetry in a Time of War – What Use is Poetry?

What is war poetry and who has a right to write it? Can non-combatants and those not directly witnessing write poetry about war? Is poetry essential or a frippery in time of war? Join a roundtable discussion chaired by poet and festival director Patrick Cotter with poets Carolyn Forché, Suji Kwock Kim and Milica Mijatović.

Carolyn Forché’s most recent collection, In the Lateness of the World (Penguin Press, 2020) was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Her famed international anthology, Against Forgetting, has been praised by Nelson Mandela as “itself a blow against tyranny, against prejudice, against injustice.”

Suji Kwock Kim is author of Notes from the Divided Country, which received the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets. Selections from Disorient received the O’Donoghue Prize, as well as awards from Poetry London, the Well Review, and Poetry Society of America.

Milica Mijatović is a Serb poet and translator. Born in Brčko, Bosnia and Hercegovina, she relocated to the United States where she earned a BA in Creative Writing and English Literature from Capital University. She is the winner of this year’s Fool for Poetry International Chapbook Competition.

Tickets: €5
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