‘Making sense’ of challenging times with Cúirt
Man-Booker prize-winner Anne Enright, novelist Eimear McBride, current UK Poet Laureate Simon Armitage, novelist and short-story writer Kevin Barry, and spoken-word legend Kate Tempest are among the writers taking part in this year’s Cúirt Festival of Literature.
It will run from April 20-25 and will also feature Galway poet, Elaine Feeney whose debut novel, As you Were, will be launched during the festival. Local writers Alan McMonagle and Mary Costello will feature too.
The Cúirt programme was launched at the Hardiman Hotel on Monday night and is the first following the appointment of its new Director Sasha de Buyl.
Other participants will feature US poet and activist Carolyn Forché who will join the award-winning Jamaican poet and fiction writer Kei Miller for an onstage discussion.
Among the highlights is an evening with novelists, Eimear McBride who will discuss her latest novel, Strange Hotel, in which she turns her eye to the human experience of being a hotel room.
Other highlights include an evening with acclaimed non-fiction writers Philip Marsden and Kapka Kassabova, who will discuss the importance of water of all kinds in our history, mythology and personal stories.
For more, read this week’s Galway City Tribune.
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