Debut collection from award-winning poet
Claregalway woman Caoilinn Hughes, the winner of the 2012 Patrick Kavanagh Award for poetry will launch her debut collection, Gathering Evidence at Charlie Byrnes Bookshop on Wednesday next, February 5 at 6pm.
Caoilinn who now lives in New Zealand, is travelling home for the launch of Gathering Evidence – her publishers, the UK based Carcanet company have also scheduled events for Dublin and Belfast to mark the collection.
After school Caoilinn studied at Queens University, Belfast where she graduated with a BA and followed that with a Masters in theatre Studies. While running a marathon in Auckland, she met an English man who was working in New Zealand. She made the move to the southern hemisphere and the couple now live in Wellington.
After working for Google, running a small business and writing novels on the weekends, she enrolled in a PhD at Victoria University of Wellington. A selection of her poems won the 2012 Patrick Kavanagh Award, the 2013 Cúirt New Writing Prize, the 2012 STA Travel Writing Prize and the 2013 Trócaire / Poetry Ireland competition.
These are all included in from Gathering Evidence. For the launch of this debut book in Charlie Byrne’s, Caoilinn will be reading from Gathering Evidence, which traces the parallels between scientific and poetic exploration.
The event is free and all are welcome.