Galway Arts Centre’s courses for aspiring poets

Galway Arts Centre is offering aspiring poets a choice of three poetry workshops, all facilitated by poet Kevin Higgins, whose debut collection, The Boy with No Face, was short-listed for the 2006 Strong Award for Best First Collection by an Irish poet.

Since then, he has published three more collections with Clare-based Salmon Poetry; Time Gentlemen, Please in 2008, Frightening New Furniture in 2010 and The Ghosts in the Lobby, last year.

His work also appears in the anthology Identity Parade –New British and Irish Poets (Bloodaxe, 2010) and The Hundred Years’ War: Modern War Poems (Bloodaxe 2014).

His poetry has been translated into Greek, Russian, Spanish, Italian, Japanese and Portuguese.

Kevin is satirist-in-residence with the alternative literature website The Bogman’s Cannon. His next book 2016 – The Selected Satires of Kevin Higgins will be published by NuaScéalta shortly. Song of Songs 2:0 – New & Selected Poems will be published by Salmon in Spring 2017.

Kevin is an experienced workshop facilitator and several of his students have gone on to achieve poetic success. One former student of the Arts Centre workshops won the prestigious Hennessy Award for New Irish Poetry, two have won the Cúirt New Writing Prize, and another was awarded the Cúirt Poetry Grand Slam, while several have published poetry collections. Two of those were shortlisted for the Shine-Strong Award for Best First Collection of poems.

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