DLR Poetry Now International Festival Unknown

Anne Stevenson, Homero Aridjis and Paul Muldoon read from their work before an audience at the Pavilion Theatre.

Philip Gross, winner of this year’s T.S. Eliot Prize, presents a special programme of poetry for the children involved in the dlr Poetry Now Education Programme. The programme is designed to introduce 8-10 year olds to contemporary poetry and involves a teachers’ workshop and a number of pre and post festival school visits.

A conversation about poetry - where it comes from, why it matters, and how it is shaped both on the page and in the poet’s mind - with three of the participating poets in this year’s dlr Poetry Now Festival. Moderated by poet and critic Paul Perry. Panel: Homero Aridjis, Poet John F. Deane, Poet and Editor Rosanna Warren, Poet

Poets Derek Mahon & Rosanna Warren read from their work before an audience at the Pavilion Theatre.

Paul Muldoon is the author of ten collections of poetry, and a winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. In this lecture, he presents a characteristically playful and idiosyncratic consideration of poems by six Irish poets, looking at “The Guttural Muse” and “Limbo,” by Seamus Heaney, “Sunday Morning” by Louis MacNeice, W.R. Rodgers’s “The Net,” John Montague’s “The Trout”, Medbh McGuckian’s “The Flower Master” and Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill’s “The Shannon Estuary Welcomes the Fish”.

Poets John Burnside, Sylva Fischerová and John F. Deane read from their work before an audience at the Pavilion Theatre.