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Billy Collins to appear at Seamus Heaney HomePlace

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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

 

 

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