Update: 17th June,
2008
The Poetry Competition is now closed for entries.
Prizes will be
awarded at the Poetry Reading and Competition Results on Sunday 27th July at the
Royal Hotel at 12.30pm
See our full programme for other literary events
during the Festival.
Guest Poet and Adjudicator Peter
Fallon
Peter Fallon was born in 1951 and grew up on a farm near Kells in
County Meath. He is a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, where he has taught
as Writer Fellow. At the age of eighteen, in 1970, he founded The Gallery Press,
Ireland’s leading literary publishing company. With Derek Mahon, he edited the
best-selling Penguin Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry (1990). His own books
include News of the World: Selected and New Poems (1998), The Georgics of Virgil
(a Poetry Book Society Recommended translation, 2004, reissued in Oxford World’s
Classics, 2006) and The Company of Horses (2007).
- Peter Fallon was
the inaugural Heimbold Professor of Irish Studies at Villanova University. A
member of Aosdána, he lives with his family in Loughcrew in County
Meath.
- A Poetry Reading by Peter Fallon will take place on Sunday 27th
July at the Royal Hotel at 12.30pm. The reading will be followed by the
presentation of prizes to the winner and runners up of the 2008 Boyle Arts
Festival Poetry Competition and by readings of the winning and highly
recommended poems.
- Peter will also be running a Poetry workshop
after the reading
The Assembly of a Poem
By close attention to
the participants' own submissions this workshop focuses on the way a poem grows,
or is assembled, and on techniques, those strategies by which ideas and feelings
are translated into language. It considers also a wider assembly - a poem's
relationship with other poems, with the community in which its author lives, and
with the tradition it extends.
Founder and publisher of Ireland's
leading poetry press, Peter Fallon possesses a unique gift as an
editor
Please indicate if you are interested in attending the workshop
as places will be limited. Yes/No
The
Boyle Arts Festival will also include readings by John Banville, Bernard
MacLaverty and local writers, see www.boylearts.com for more information or
email info@boylearts.com to be included on our mailing list.
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