Online Poetry Reading with poet  Enda Wyley for adults  & 12-14 year olds

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Enda Wyley, author and poet, will  host an online poetry event  for families/adults and young adults aged  12- 14 years.

People will be invited to read a favourite poem or a poem they have written themselves. Enda Wyley will also read from her own poetry and discuss writing poetry and creative writing. 12- 14 year olds attending the event online must have a parent/guardian present with them for the duration of the event. Enda Wyley was born in Dún Laoghaire, Co Dublin. She is a poet and a teacher and member of Aosdána, the Irish affiliation of artists. She has published six collections of poetry with Dedalus Press, most recently Borrowed Space, New and Selected Poems and The Painter on his Bike, 2019.Enda’s books for children from O’Brien Press, are Boo and Bear, I Won’t Go to China! and The Silver Notebook. Her poetry for children has been included in anthologies such as Something Beginning with P, O’Brien Press and Once Upon A Place, Ed Eoin Colfer, Little Island. With her husband the poet Peter Sirr, she also co-hosts the podcast Books for Breakfast about books and writing. https://booksforbreakfast.buzzsprout.com‘Enda Wyley is a true poet.’ The Irish Times.

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