Poetry and Performance Workshop with Jessica Traynor

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Re-Introductions, a writing and performance workshop with Jessica Traynor

Civic Trust House

In this workshop with poet Jessica Traynor, we'll use your words as a guide to find a performance style that works for you. This unique mixture of writing and performance workshop is perfect for those looking to fine-tune both their work on the page, and their reading style. It would suit early to mid-career published poets, and is open to non Poetry Ireland alumni.Jessica Traynor is a poet, essayist and librettist. She has recently been appointed guest editor of Poetry Ireland Review 2024, winter issue.She has taught on Poetry Ireland's Introductions Series and works as a creative writing teacher all over Ireland. Her third collection, Pit Lullabies (Bloodaxe, 2022), is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. It was an Irish Times book of the year, a Guardian Summer Read of 2022, and shortlisted for the Yeats Society Sligo Poetry Prize. She is 2023 recipient of the Lawrence O’Shaughnessy Award for Poetry. Other awards include the Hennessy New Writer of the Year, the Listowel Poetry Prize, and The Ireland Chair of Poetry Prize. She was a judge for the 2023 Forward Prizes, is a poetry critic for The Irish Times, and poetry editor at Banshee Press. She is the 2023 Arts Council Writer in Residence in University of Galway.This event is presented in associated with Ó Bhéal’s 11th Winter Warmer festival, 24 - 26 Nov.

Poetry and Performance Workshop with Jessica Traynor

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