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23/09/2004
New Irish Poetry collection launched this week
Bloodaxe Books will launch The New Irish Poets edited by Selina Guinness this Friday 24 September.
The New Irish Poets is a landmark anthology of the newest generation of Irish writers making their mark in poetry at the start of the 21st century. The wide-ranging anthology features over 30 poets of all ages from all parts of Ireland who've produced first collections over the past ten years. Illustrated with photographs and editorial commentaries, the book includes a parallel-text selection of poems by three new Irish-language poets.
Nearly half the writers are women, and all ages are represented from Fergus Allen, now in his 80s to the youngest, Leanne O'Sullivan, who is only 21. The collection also includes work by Katie Donovan, Geroid MacLochlainn, Jean Bleaknet, Tom French, Sinéad Morrise and Conor O'Callaghan.
Editor Selina Guinness lectures in Irish Literature in Dun Laoghaire. She is now editing Yeats's The Resurrec-tion for Cornell, and has published many essays, articles and reviews on Yeats, the Irish Literary Revival and contemporary poetry.
Also launched on Friday evening is Waiting for My Clothes by Leanne O’Sullivan.
The launch takes place in the Irish Writers' Centre, 19 Parnell Square, Dublin 1 and admission is free.
For more details, contact tel: +353 (0)1 8721302
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