Billy Collins to appear at Seamus Heaney HomePlace
The hugely popular American poet Billy Collins will be reading and in conversation with poet Paula Meehan at the Seamus Heaney HomePlace in Bellaghy, Co Derry on Saturday 8 February at 7.30pm (doors open 7.15).
Billy Collins has published 12 collections of poetry, and won numerous awards. He was appointed US poet laureate 2001-03, and in 2016 he was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts & Letters. He was also selected as the inaugural recipient of the Poetry Foundation’s Mark Twain award for Humour in Poetry. More details