14th – 17th October 2009
The festival format over the 4 days includes lunchtime readings, readings for secondary school students, book launches and evening readings.
This year’s line up of poets include International Poetry festival with visiting poets from around the world: Pulitzer prize poet and US Poet Laureate, Robert Hass (USA), Donald Hall (USA), Fleur Adcock (UK), Penelope Shuttle (UK), Aonghus MacNeachail (Scotland) Lidija Dimkovska (Slovenia), Taja Kramberger (Slovenia), Catherine Smith (UK) John O’Donoghue (UK), and Irish poets Patrick Moran, Maurice Riordan, Ulick O’Connor, and Paul Muldoon. Lunchtime readings will take place in Limerick City Gallery of Art celebrating Limerick poets Paul Sweeney, Clairr O’Connor and Vivienne McKechnie.
Highlights
- Readings for school groups at Limerick City Library, the Belltable and a poetry masterclass for schools
- Cuisle Young Poet of the Year Awards will take place on Saturday 17th at 11am in Daghdha
- Lunchtime readings and book launches at Limerick City Gallery of Art
- This year’s Stony Thursday Book is being edited by Ciaran O’Driscoll
- Open mic nightly at the White House Pub with a poetry slam on Saturday night
- Fmily day of activity at Limerick City Gallery of Art on Saturday from 11.30am to 3.30pm
- Nightly evening readings with poets of national and international importance
3 comments:
Thank you again for keeping your blog so up to date and informative.
Do they publish a list of contributors to the Stony Thursday Book, do you know, or must one wait until it is published?
Thanks for dropping by DQ.
I don't know about Stony Thursday. I didn't send anything in. Usually you only get to hear if you're in or at the launch.
I think I got an "regrets" email last year telling me that I wasn't in but I can't remember if this was before the launch or not.
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