Mountains to Sea/Poetry Now Festival

Mountains to Sea festival starts tomorrow in Dun Laoghaire. There's lots going on and there information and booking online here.

My selected highlights/recommendations:

WEDNESDAY 18TH MARCH 2015

8.30 Paul Durcan
Pavilion Theatre.

THURSDAY 19TH MARCH 2015

4pm How to Write an Awesome (and Not at all Geeky) Book
Pavilion Theatre

FRIDAY 20TH MARCH 2015

11am Brave New World. Teenager writing showcase with Colm Keegan

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1pm Alice Lyons, the director of Poetry Now gives a talk exploring language acquisition and language variation and their intersection with poetry in the minds of authors and readers. 
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6.30pm. Poetry Now Keynote address with Poet and essayist Maureen N. McLane should be well attended. Maureen is a great talker, full of brio and wit. "Poetry is Dead, Long Live Poetry: Towards an Ongoing Compositionism"
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8.30pm Miriam Gamble, Maureen N. McLane & Tom Pickard 
Looking forward to hearing Miriam again.
Pavilion Theatre

SATURDAY 21ST MARCH 2015

12.30pm The Irish Times Poetry Now Award - always worth a look. Free event.
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4.30pm Tomasz Rózycki & Kei Miller 

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9.30pm IADT / Poetry Now Feuilleton to mark Poetry Now's 20th Anniversary

Feuilleton is a collaborative project featuring poems by all the poets reading at dlr Poetry Now 2015 and designs by IADT Visual Arts Practice students and tutors (Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Dún Laoghaire). Retire to festival club after the launch for impromptu readings and more!

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SUNDAY 22ND MARCH 2015

12.30pm Shine/Strong Award
dlr LexIcon, The Studio

2.30pm Daljit Nagra & Liz Berry - Unmissable

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6.30pm David Lodge

Pavilion 

8.30pm Panti Bliss

Pavilion