Poetry courses from Galway Arts Centre

Galway Arts Centre is offering aspiring poets a choice of three online poetry workshops, all beginning the week of Monday January 25.

They are being facilitated by Kevin Higgins, whose best-selling first collection, The Boy with No Face, published by Salmon Poetry, was short-listed for the 2006 Strong Award for Best First Collection by an Irish poet. Kevin has published several books with Salmon in the intervening years and his next full collection, Ecstatic, is due from the County Clare based publisher this summer.

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 April 2014).

Kevin’s poems have appeared in journals and newspapers in Ireland and abroad and have been broadcast on RTÉ Radio, Lyric FM, and BBC Radio 4, while he has read at events supported by the Arts Council and Culture Ireland in mainland Europe, the USA and Australia.

His workshops at Arts Centre will begin the week of Monday January 25, and be conducted via Zoom.

They will take place on Tuesday evenings, 7-8.30pm (starting Tuesday, January 26); on Thursday afternoons, 2-4pm (starting Thursday, January 28) and on Friday afternoons, 2-3.30pm (starting Friday, January 29).

Each week Kevin will give participants a poetry-writing exercise for the following week and will offer each person constructive suggestions about to how make their work as good as it can be.

For more, read this week’s Connacht Tribune.

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