Saturday 20th May @ 8.30pm

Cork International Poetry Festival
Tom French & Suji Kwock Kim

Tom French’s collections are published by The Gallery Press and have received the Forward Prize for Best Collection (2002), the Dermot Healy Award (2015) and the O’Shaughnessy Award for Irish Poetry (2016). His most recent book Company (Gallery Press, 2022) was an Irish Times Book of the Year in 2022. He lives in coastal County Meath and earns his living in the County Library Service.

Suji Kwock Kim is author of Notes from the Divided Country, which received the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets, Addison Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Whiting Writers’ Award, Bay Area Book Reviewers Award, and was shortlisted for the Griffin Prize; Private Property, a multimedia play performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival; and Notes from the North, which received the International Book & Pamphlet Award (UK). Selections from Disorient, her forthcoming collection, have received the O’Donoghue Prize, as well as awards from Poetry London, the Well Review, and Poetry Society of America. She is 2023 Writer-in-Residence at the Wordsworth Trust.

Tickets: €5
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