Bloodaxe Poets at Cork International Poetry Festival 2024
EVENTS WITH BLOODAXE POETS AT CORK INTERNATIONAL POETRY FESTIVAL
Cork International Poetry Festival is running from 14-18 May 2024. Full details of the festival are available on their website here. A five-day festival pass is available for €70.
Tuesday 14 May 2024, 6.30-8pm, The Farmgate Café, Cork
The Farmgate Café National Poetry Award
The Cork International Poetry Festival will open with the announcement of the winner of the Farmgate Café National Poetry Award. The winning poet will be reading from their work. Bloodaxe poet Jane Clarke has been shortlisted for her third collection A Change in the Air.
Free but ticketed (Eventbrite) - limited places.
https://www.corkpoetryfest.net/tuesday.html
Main events featuring Bloodaxe poets are below:
Wednesday May 15th, 10pm
Cork Arts Theatre, Carroll's Quay, Shandon, Cork, Ireland
Katie Donovan & Kerry Hardie
Katie Donovan’s sixth collection of poetry, May Swim is published by Bloodaxe Books in May 2024. She has published five previous books of poetry, all with Bloodaxe Books: Watermelon Man (1993), Entering the Mare (1997), Day of the Dead (2002), Rootling: New & Selected Poems (2010), and Off Duty (2016), which was shortlisted for the Irish Times–Poetry Now Award. Katie Donovan received the Lawrence O’Shaughnessy Award for Poetry in 2017. She is a former journalist with The Irish Times and has taught Creative Writing at IADT Dún Laoghaire and NUI Maynooth. She lives in Dalkey, Co. Dublin.
Kerry Hardie's ninth collection We Go On was published by Bloodaxe Books in February 2024, following two previous Bloodaxe collections, Where Now Begins (2020) and The Zebra Stood in the Night. Six earlier collections have been published by the Gallery Press and a Selected Poems, published by Gallery Press in Ireland and by Bloodaxe Books in the UK.
Tickets €5 - Book here.
Friday May 17th, 7pm
Cork Arts Theatre, Carroll's Quay, Shandon, Cork, Ireland
André Naffis-Sahely & Tom Sleigh
André Naffis-Sahely is the author of two collections of poetry, The Promised Land: Poems from Itinerant Life (Penguin UK, 2017) and High Desert (Bloodaxe Books, 2022), as well as the editor of The Heart of a Stranger: An Anthology of Exile Literature (Pushkin Press, 2020). He also co-edited Mick Imlah: Selected Prose (Peter Lang, 2015) and The Palm Beach Effect: Reflections on Michael Hofmann (CB Editions, 2013). He has translated over twenty titles of fiction, poetry and nonfiction, including works by Honoré de Balzac, Émile Zola, Abdellatif Laâbi, Ribka Sibhatu and Tahar Ben Jelloun. He is an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Davis and was editor of Poetry London until March 2024.
Tickets €5 - Book here.
Friday May 17th, 10pm
Cork Arts Theatre, Carroll's Quay, Shandon, Cork, Ireland
David Harsent & Sarah Holland-Batt
David Harsent has published thirteen collections of poetry. Legion won the Forward Prize. Night was triple shortlisted in the UK and won the Griffin International Poetry Prize. Fire Songs won the T.S. Eliot Prize. A Broken Man in Flower, Harsent’s versions of the poems written by Yannis Ritsos while in prison camps and under house arrest at the time of the Greek junta, was published in 2023 by Bloodaxe Books. His latest collection, Skin, appeared in February 2024. Harsent has collaborated with several composers, though most often with Harrison Birtwistle. Birtwistle/Harsent collaborations have been performed at major venues worldwide.
Sarah Holland-Batt is an award-winning Australian poet, editor and critic, and the author of three books of poems — most recently The Jaguar — and a book of essays, Fishing for Lightning, a collection of her columns on contemporary Australian poetry written for The Australian newspaper. Her books have received many of Australia’s major honours for poetry, including the Prime Minister’s Literary Award, the Stella Prize, The Australian Book of the Year, and the Margaret and Colin Roderick Award. The Jaguar: Selected Poems is forthcoming from Bloodaxe Books in September 2024. She presently is Professor of Poetry at the Queensland University of Technology.
Tickets €5 - Book here.
[04 April 2024]
