New collection from late poet
The late Tom Duddy will be known to many Galway people as a former lecturer at NUI Galway where he worked in the Department of Philosophy from 1979 until he became ill in 2011. Some may know he also loved and wrote poetry.
Tom died in June 2012, while compiling his second book of poems. This posthumous collection, The Years, is now being published by HappenStance Press, and will be launched by publisher Helena Nelson in the City’s Harbour Hotel on Wednesday, March 26, at 7pm.
Tom Duddy’s first collection, The Hiding Place, published by Arlen House in 2011, was was shortlisted for the Aldeburgh First Collection Prize and the Seamus Heaney Centre Prize for Poetry.
All are welcome to attend the launch.