Celebrating creativity as Cúirt programme launched

Authors Anne Enright, Sebastian Barry, Carmen Maria Machado, Max Porter and Donal Ryan and poets Tara Bergin, Vona Groarke and Colette Bryce are among those taking part in  this year’s Cúirt Festival of Literature which will run from Tuesday to Sunday, April 18-23.

The programme, the first under Cúirt’s new Director, Manuela Moser, was launched on Wednesday night and includes fiction, poetry. memoir, theatre, masterclasses, exhibitions and family events.

Sebastian Barry, a two-time winner of the Costa Prize will be reading from and discussing his highly acclaimed new novel, Old God’s Time, while  US writer Carmen Maria Machado whose 2019 memoir, In the Dream House, won the 2021 Folio Prize, will give a reading and also host workshops.

The new novel from Galway’s Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat, will be launched during Cúirt, while other Irish writers taking part include Emer McLysaght, co-author of the Aisling series (with a live episode of the podcast, Sentimental Garbage); Wendy Erskine; Louise Kennedy (Irish Novel of the Year 2022 for Trespasses); Nicole Flattery; Alice Kinsella; Sophie White; Susannah Dickey; Suad Aldarra; Michael Magee; and Elaine Farrell and Leanne McCormick.

From England come the 2020 and 2022 winners of the Desmond Elliott Prize, Derek Owusu (for That Reminds Me) and Maddie Mortimer (for Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies, which was also Booker longlisted).

Pigott Prize-winning poet Colette Bryce will read alongside Sarah Clancy and Toby Buckley, to celebrate the landmark anthology Queering the Green: Post-2000 Queer Irish Poetry. Galway resident Eva Bourke will read with Forward Prize shortlisted Padraig Regan and Tara Bergin (shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize). Another TS Eliot shortlisted poet, Will Harris, will read with Rachael Allen and  Forward Prize-winner, Vona Groarke. Poet and novelist Daisy Lafarge will read as part of an eco-poetry event with Selina Nwulu and Emma Must.

For more, read this week’s Galway City Tribune.

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