Elaine Feinstein & Tara Bergin Readings

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We are delighted to host two fine contemporary poets at the Irish World Heritage Centre as part of the 2017 John Rylands Research Institute' Conference, 'Archival Afterlives' exploring British and Irish Poetry (27-29 June).
Tara Bergin is from Dublin. Her first collection of poems, This is Yarrow, was published by Carcanet in 2013, and won the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry Prize, and the Shine/Strong Award. She is now working on her second collection, due to published in 2017. New poems have recently appeared in tender, Manchester Review, Granta, Poetry (Chicago), and Poetry Ireland Review. Tara currently lives in the North of England and lectures part time at Newcastle University.
Elaine Feinstein is a poet, novelist, and biographer. She has received many prizes, including a Cholmondeley Award for Poetry, the Betty Miller Prize for her experimental novel The Circle, (long-listed for the ‘lost’ Man Booker in 2010) and an Honorary D.Litt from the University of Leicester.
This event is delivered in collaboration with the John Rylands Research Institute and with the kind support of the Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade (Ireland) under their Emigrant Support Programme.
​Admission is free but booking is required: https://www.iwhc.com/copy-of-fredrick-douglass-ireland

Entry: Free

Time: 7:30pm