This summer s events include poetry readings by Seamus Heaney, Peter Fallon and John Montague as well as an evening of readings by Sligo artists led by John Kavanagh. There is also a student poetry reading. At 10.00 each evening, students, lecturers, writers, and members of the Sligo Yeats Society gather at the social centre and pub for informal poetry reading, music and singing, story-telling, and passionate conversation. In addition to the initial tour of Yeats Country, the programme arranges optional tours to Lough Gill, Lissadell House, Coole Park and Thoor Ballylee, and the Carrowmore megalithic cemetery. The poetry workshop will be held on Saturday the 7th and Sunday the 8th in the Yeats Memorial Building under the direction of Peter Fallon.
Numbers are limited, so early booking is advisable.
Students should provide the director with typed copies of two poems for the workshop before July 15. The Gallery Press, which Peter Fallon founded at the age of eighteen, has published three hundred books of poems and plays by the country s finest established and emerging authors and is recognised as Ireland s pre-eminent literary publishing house. He has given many readings in the USA, Canada, around Europe and in Japan. He grew up near Kells in the Irish midlands where he lives on a small farm. The fee includes all lectures, seminars, readings, and the last-night performance of a Yeats play.