Kim Moore

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Kim Moore was born in 1981 and lives and works in Cumbria, where in addition to writing, she also teaches the trumpet. She won an Eric Gregory Award in 2011, the Geoffrey Dearmer Prize in 2012 and a New Writing North Award in 2014. Her pamphlet “If We Could Speak Like Wolves” (Smith/Doorstop, 2012) was a winner in the Poetry Business Pamphlet Competition and was chosen as a 2012 Independent Book of the Year and shortlisted for the Michael Marks Pamphlet Award and Lakeland Book of the Year Award. Her debut collection “The Art of Falling” (Seren, 2015) won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. Her second collection “All The Men I Never Married” is forthcoming from Seren in October 2021.

Nandi Jola

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Nandi lived in South Africa under the apartheid regime until she was 21, when she moved to Northern Ireland—where she has been active in the arts community as a writer, schools ambassador, artist and facilitator. In 2010, she founded the ‘nandijproject’, with the intention to tackle women trafficking and sexual exploitation. She has participated in public performance and discussion with fellow writer Raquel McKee and has explored the place of performance writers in the field of artistic practice and public arts. She has been involved with the Irish Writers Centre XBorders project, Same/Difference project, the Poetry Jukebox and is part of the Sky, You Are Too Big poetry collective. Nandi managed the ‘Home neither here nor there’ exhibition at Stormont in May 2013.

Leontia Flynn

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Leontia Flynn was born in County Down and is Reader with the School of Arts, English and Languages, attached to the Seamus Heaney Centre, Queen’s University Belfast. She is one of Ireland’s leading poets and has published four poetry collections with Jonathan Cape: “These Days” (2004), “Drives” (2008) “Profit and Loss” (2011) and “The Radio” (2017). Most recently, she published a pamphlet, “Slim New Book”, with the Lifeboat Press (Belfast, 2020). She has also published a critical study of the poet Medbh McGuckian with Irish Academic Press (2014).

Malika Booker

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Malika Booker was born in London to Guyanese and Grenadian parents, and lived in Grenada until she was thirteen, when she returned to England. She studied anthropology at Goldsmiths, London and, in 2001, along with poet and performer Roger Robinson, founded Malika’s Poetry Kitchen. The collective “nurtures the writing, performance and careers of poets by emphasising craft, community and development.”

Alan Gillis

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Alan Gillis was born in Belfast and is Lecturer in English at the University of Edinburgh. He has published four poetry collections with Gallery Press: “Somebody, Somewhere” (2004 winner of the Strong Award for the best first collection in Ireland), “Hawks and Doves (2007, shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize), “Here Comes the Night” (2010), and “Scapegoat” (2014). “The Readiness” was published by Picador in 2020.

Nell Regan

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Nell Regan was born in London in 1969 but grew up in Dublin, and works as a freelance educator and literary programmer. She attended University College Dublin, Lancaster University, Goldsmiths, and is a graduate of The Poets’ House, Donegal. In 2011, she participated in the International Writing Program Fall Residency at the University of Iowa and in 2012 she was a Fulbright Scholar at U C Berkeley. In 2016 Nell was awarded a Kavanagh Fellowship.

Philip Gross

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Philip Gross was born in Cornwall, the son of an Estonian wartime refugee, and he has lived in Plymouth, Bristol and South Wales, where he was Professor of Creative Writing at Glamorgan University. He has published numerous poetry collections, beginning with “The Wasting Game” (Bloodaxe, 1998), which was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Later collections. all with Bloodaxe, include: “Mappa Mundi” (2003 & PBS Recommendation), “The Egg of Zero” (2006 & shortlisted for the Roland Matias Prize), “The Water Table” (2009 & winner of the T S Eliot Prize), “Deep Field” (2010 & PBS Recommendation), “Love Songs of Carbon” (2016 & PBS Recommendation), “A Bright Acoustic” (2017), and “Between the Islands” (2020). He received a Cholmondeley Award in 2017.

Ruth Carr

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Ruth Carr was born and lives in Belfast where she is a freelance editor and tutor. She has two collections with Summer Palace Press, “There is a House” (1999) and “The Airing Cupboard” (2008). “Feather and Bone” was published by Arlen House in 2018.

Mary O’Donnell

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Mary O’Donnell lives near Straffan, County Kildare and worked intermittently in journalism, especially theatre criticism, and her essays on contemporary literary are widely published. She also presented and scripted three series of poetry programmes for RTE Radio, including a successful series on poetry in translation during 2005 and 2006 called ‘Crossing the Lines’. She teaches Creative Writing, part time, at NUI Maynooth and in 2011 she received that university’s President’s Alumni Award She has also worked on the faculty of Carlow University Pittsburgh’s MFA programme, as well as on the University of Iowa’s summer writing programme at Trinity College Dublin. In December 2001 she was elected to the membership of Aosdana. She is also a member of the Irish Writers’ Union and served for three years as an external representative for arts and culture on the Governing Authority of the National University of Ireland, Maynooth.

Billy Ramsell

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Billy Ramsell has two critically acclaimed collections with Dedalus Press, “Complicated Pleasures” (2007) and “The Architect’s Dream of Winter” (2013). He lives live in Cork where he co-runs an educational publishing company. He is the former editor of the Irish section of the Poetry International website and in 2013 he judged the Strong Shine award for best first collection by an Irish poet.

Eoghan Walls

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Eoghan was born in Derry and studied English and Philosophy at University College, Dublin before receiving both an MA and a PhD from the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry at Queen’s University, Belfast. He taught Creative Writing at Queen’s University Belfast, the Open University, and for the SUISS program at Edinburgh University, before being appointed Lecturer in Creative Writing at Lancaster University.

Órfhlaith Foyle

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Órflhaith was born in Nigeria to Irish missionary parents, living there as well as in Kenya and Malawi. She later lived in Australia, France, Russia, Israel and the United Kingdom. Her home is now in Galway. Órflhaith was born in Nigeria to Irish missionary parents, living there as well as in Kenya and Malawi. She later lived in Australia, France, Russia, Israel and the United Kingdom. Her home is now in Galway. Her work has been published in The Dublin Review, The Wales Arts Review, The Manchester Review, and The Stinging Fly.

Pat Boran

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Pat Boran was born in Portlaoise and lives in Dublin. He is a former Programme Director of the Dublin Writers Festival, a former presenter of both The Enchanted Way and The Poetry Programme on RTÉ Radio 1, and continues to contribute to the Sunday Miscellany. He is also a former editor of Poetry Ireland Review. He is currently the editor of Dedalus Press (Dublin).

Siobhan Campbell

Siobhan Campbell lives in Belfast and was educated at University College Dublin and at Lancaster University. She pursued post-graduate study at NYU and the New School, New York, and worked as Managing Editor of Wolfhound Press. She joined the Open University after teaching at Kingston University London, where she was Associate Professor in English Literature and Creative Writing.

Paul Muldoon

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Paul Muldoon was born in 1951 in Portadown, Co. Armagh, and was raised near The Moy. He now divides his time between Ireland and his home in America. Paul attended Queen’s University Belfast, and John Hewitt, then poetry editor of “Threshold”, was the first to publish Paul’s poems. He has, of course, gone on to be recognised as one of the world’s leading poets and was described by TLS as “the most significant English-language poet born since the Second World War.”

Lorna Shaughnessy

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Lorna Shaughnessy Reads for The John Hewitt Society. Lorna Shaughnessy was born in Belfast and lives in Co. Galway, where she is Lecturer in Hispanic Studies, NUI Galway. She has published three poetry collections, “Torching the Brown River” (Salmon, 2008), “Witness Trees” (Salmon, 2011) and “Anchored” (Salmon, 2015), and a chapbook, “Song of the Forgotten Shulamite”, (Lapwing, 2005). “Lark Water” is forthcoming from Salmon Press.

Iggy McGovern

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Iggy McGovern Reads for The John Hewitt Society. Iggy McGovern was born in Coleraine and educated in Belfast. He holds degrees in physics from Queen’s University, Belfast, and was Professor of Physics in Trinity College, Dublin until retirement in 2013, where he is now Fellow Emeritus.

Kate Newmann

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Kate Newmann Reads Poetry For The John Hewitt Society.

Kate was born in Dromore, Co. Down and lives in Kilcar, Donegal. She co-founded Summer Palace Press in 1999. She holds an MA in English from King’s College, Cambridge and was a Junior Fellow at the Institute for Irish Studies, Queen’s University Belfast, during which time she edited and compiled The Dictionary of Ulster Biography (1993).

Paul Perry

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Paul Perry Reads Poetry for the John Hewitt Society. Paul was born in Dublin in 1972 and lived for several years in the United States, where he studied at Brown University. He is currently Associate Professor in Creative Writing at University College Dublin.

Paul Batchelor

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In this Poetry Clip Paul Batchelor reads for The John Hewitt Society.

Paul is a freelance writer and teacher, and regularly reviews for the Guardian, The Times and the Times Literary Supplement. He is Director of Creative Writing at Durham University.