The SEAMUS HEANEY GALLERY GOES FULBRIGHT READING CENTRE Thursday, 11 February, at 8pm in the Thursday, 18 February at 8pm in the for POETRY Crescent Arts Centre Crescent Arts Centre Ciaran Berry was born in Dublin but James Arthur lives in Baltimore, where now lives and teaches in Connecticut. he is an Assistant Professor of Creative He has published two collections, Writing at Johns Hopkins University. His The Sphere of Birds (2008) and The first book, Charms Against Lightning, Dead Zoo (2013). He has won the was published by Copper Canyon Press as Crab Orchard Series Award of a Lannan Literary Selection. As a Southern Illinois University Press, the Fulbright Scholar, Arthur will be teaching 2008 Jerwood Aldeburgh Prize and the at Queen’s University Belfast’s Seamus inaugural Michael Murphy Memorial Heaney Center for Poetry; he will also Award 2011. make a close, practical study of public SPRING EVENTS address in the work of contemporary Michelle O’Sullivan’s first collection, Northern Irish poets. 2016 The Blue End of Stars, was published in 2012 which was shortlisted for the Meg Tyler teaches at Boston University, Michael Murphy Memorial Prize 2013 where she chairs the Institute for the and won the Shine/Strong Award. Her Study of Irish Culture and directs the latest collection, The Flower and the Poetry Reading Series. Her scholarly Frozen Sea, a Poetry Book Society All events are free and unticketed unless interests lie in the study of Irish and Recommendation, was published on 1 American poetry. She has authored a otherwise stated. October 2015. book on Seamus Heaney (Routledge, 2005) and a chapbook of poems. In Justin Quinn’s collections include Belfast, she will be researching the poetry Privacy (1999), Fuselage (2002), of Michael Longley and completing a Waves and Trees (2006), Close collection of essays on his work. This is Quarters (2011) and, most recently, her second Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award. Early House, (2015). At present he is working on translations of the Czech poet Bohuslav Reynek, and has published a critical book on transnationalism and cold war poetry.

THOMAS McCARTHY MICHAEL LONGLEY AND YELLOW NIB JOURNAL Thursday, 25 February, at 8pm in the PETER McDONALD Reading and Launch Crescent Arts Centre Classical Readings Thursday, 28 April, at 8pm in the Thomas McCarthy was born in 1969 and Thursday, 14 April, at 8pm in the Crescent Arts Centre lives in London. His first two novels, Crescent Arts Centre A reading to launch Issue 11 of the Remainder and Men In Space, have been Michael Longley is a recipient of the Yellow Nib which has poems by Peter published internationally to much Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry, and his McDonald, Hannah Lowe and Carol acclaim. Remainder, winner of the translations and adaptations from Rumens.

Believer Prize 2008, is currently being classical literature have garnered adapted for film by FILM 4. Tom's international critical acclaim. His most MA READINGS novel C was shortlisted for the Man recent poetry collection, The Stairwell Thursday, 26 May, at 8pm in the Booker Prize in 2010 and went on to win (2014) won the Griffin Poetry Prize. Crescent Arts Centre the highly valued new Windham- Peter McDonald’s Collected Poems The last reading of the year and always a Campbell Award in 2013. In 2015 his appeared in 2012, and a new volume of good one. Our MA students show the latest novel, Satin Island, was shortlisted translations from ancient Greek, fruits of their labours. Spot the for the Man Booker Prize 2015 and for Homeric Hymns, has just been published emerging talent! the Goldsmith Prize. by Carcanet Press, together with his most recent poetry collection, Herne the Hunter (2016). POETRY SUMMER SCHOOL PAULA MEEHAN 27 June-1 July, 2016 Planet Water - Lecture A Week of Creative Practice How to contact us: Sessions from Sinéad Morrissey, Leontia Thursday, 10 March, at 8pm in the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry Crescent Arts Centre Flynn, Ciaran Carson, James Arthur c/o School of English This is the third and final lecture from (Visiting Fulbright Fellow from John Queen’s University of Belfast Hopkins University), Paul Maddern and the current Ireland Chair of Poetry, Belfast, BT7 1NN Emma Must. Professor Paula Meehan. Tel: +44 (0)28 90971070 Places are limited and awarded on merit. To Web: www.qub.ac.uk/heaneycentre be considered send four poems to Email: [email protected] [email protected] by 1 April. See

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