'Away With Words' - Poetry and Writing Trip
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Guest Poets and Lecturers
Paula Meehan is one of Ireland’s best known poets. Her work has garnered popular and critical acclaim. As If By Magic: Selected Poems, published 1st of October, 2020, by Dedalus Press, presents a generous offering of poetry made in the last thirty years. From 2013 to 2016 she was Ireland Professor of Poetry. Awards include the Butler Award of the Irish American Cultural Institute, the Laurence O’Shaughnessy Award, the Denis Devlin Award and the Marten Toonder Award.
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Annemarie Ní Churreáin is a poet from the Donegal Gaeltacht, Ireland. Her debut collection Bloodroot (Doire Press, 2017) was shortlisted for the Shine Strong Award for best first collection in Ireland and for the 2018 Julie Suk Award in the U.S.A. She is also author of The Poison Glen (The Gallery Press, 2021). She is a recipient of a Next Generation Artist Award from the President of Ireland on behalf of the Arts Council of Ireland.
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Theo Dorgan is a poet, prose writer, documentary screenwriter, editor, translator librettist and broadcaster. Winner of numerous Irish and International literary awards, Theo has also made his mark on the Irish literature landscape in his positions as Director of Poetry Ireland, Writer/Presenter of TV books programme IMPRINT, and member of the Irish Arts Council from 2003 to 2008.
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Chiamaka Enyi-Amadi is a poet-performer, columnist, literary editor and arts facilitator from Lagos, Nigeria, currently living in Wicklow with her partner and their thirty-plus thriving plants. Her work is widely published online and in print, notedly in The Art of the Glimpse: 100 Irish Short Stories anthology edited by Sinéad Gleeson (Head of Zeus, 2020). She is co-editor of Writing Home: The ‘New Irish’ Poets anthology (Dedalus Press, 2019).
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Sean Nevin is the author of Oblivio Gate (Southern Illinois University Press) which won the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Prize, and A House That Falls (Slapering Hol Press). He served as Associate Professor and Director of the MFA Program in Poetry & Poetry in Translation at Drew University where he was an Associate Professor and lead literary trips in Ireland. He was named an honoree in The Irish Education 100 in 2016
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Niamh Hamill is a lecturer in Irish Cultural Studies, including literary history. She is the Director of the Institute of Study Abroad Ireland, and an experienced local guide to sites in Ireland associated with poets and writers. In 2020, Niamh wrote 'Finding Ireland: Notes from the Northwest'. She is currently working on an anthology of Irish poetry.
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Educated by nuns, brothers, and liberals, Robert Ready lives in NYC, Truro, MA, and teaches in NJ. Atmosphere Press published his novel, Eck: A Romance in 2021. His fiction has appeared in Antaeus, Mondo James Dean, RiverSedge, Reconfigurations, Antioch Review, Exterminating Angel Magazine, and elsewhere.
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Trip Details |
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Deposit: $99
Total Fees: $1950
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If you are looking to book onto our Poetry and Writing program but have a few questions first, please do not hesitate to contact us. Our team will work with you and your group to organizing transfers, give you information about accommodation, and help with anything else we can. We look forward to hearing from you.
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