Join us for a celebration of writing about place and nature, and the launch of the fifteenth issue of the literary magazine, Archipelago
Tues 7th May, 6.30pm Click here to book for Late Heaney
Nicholas Allen, Late Heaney: Poetry and Place after the Nobel
Weds 8th May, 10am until 6pm Click here to book for Archipelago
The very best of prose, poetry, and song about place and nature of ‘the unnameable
archipelago’, that constellation of islands off the north-west coast of Europe
6.30pm Launch Reception for Archipelago, the 15th issue
PROGRAMME
Old Physics Theatre, Museum of Literature Ireland
Tuesday 7th May
18:30 Welcome Reception
19:00 Nicholas Allen, Late Heaney: Poetry and Place after the Nobel
Wednesday 8th May
10:00 Arrival and Registration
10:15 Opening Words
10:20 Fiona Stafford, Time and Tide
11:05 Tea/Coffee
11:20 The Arc of our Covenant: Alan Riach, Tim Ecott, Angus Macmillan
12:20 James Macdonald Lockhart, Birds of the Archipelago
13:05 Lunch
14:00 Over the Irish Sea: Tony Crowley, Gerry Dawe, Andrew Hadfield
15:00 Readings from Moya Cannon, Garry MacKenzie, Judy O’Kane, David Wheatley
16:00 Tea/Coffee
16:20 Lillis O Laoire, Songs of the Gaelic Coast from the Western Isles to the Blaskets
17:05 Richard Nairn, A Tribute to Michael Viney
17:45 Break
18:30 Drinks Reception and Launch of Archipelago 2:3