Event Theme

Christopher Reid was Poetry Editor at Faber and Faber from 1991 to 1999, and Professor in Creative Writing at the University of Hull from 2007 to 2009. His book of poems Arcadia won both the Somerset Maugham Award and the Hawthornden prize. A Scattering was shortlisted for all three of Britain's top poetry awards: the Forward, the T.S. Eliot and the Costa Poetry Prize. It went onto win the overall 2010 Costa prize. His edition of Letters of Ted Hughes has just been published in paperback.

Anthony Cronin was a founding member of Aosdána and long been a leading figure on the Irish literary scene. As well as several collections of poetry, including the newly published The Fall, Anthony Cronin has written a number of admired prose works, including biographies of Flann O'Brien and Samuel Beckett, the classic memoir of Dublin in the fifties, Dead as Doornails.

Fee

€15 / €12

Venue

St John's Theatre & Arts Centre

Time

Sunday 6th June

1.00pm