Starting in September,
Galway Arts Centre is offering aspiring poets a choice of three poetry
workshops, all facilitated by poet Kevin Higgins, whose best-selling first
collection, The Boy With No Face, published by Salmon Poetry, was short-listed for the 2006 Strong Award
for Best First Collection by an Irish poet. Kevin’s second collection of poems, TimeGentlemen, Please, was published in 2008 by
Salmon Poetry and his poetry is discussed in The Cambridge Introduction to
Modern Irish Poetry. His third collection Frightening New Furniture was published in 2010 by Salmon and his work also appears in the
generation defining anthologyIdentity Parade –New British and Irish Poets (Ed. Roddy Lumsden, Bloodaxe, 2010). A collection of Kevin’s essays and
book reviews, Mentioning The War, was published in 2012 by Salmon Poetry. His next collection of poetry, The Ghost in The Lobby, will be published in
early 2014, also by Salmon.
Kevin is a highly experienced workshop facilitator and several of his students have gone on to achieve publication success. One of his workshop participants at Galway Arts Centre won the prestigious Hennessy Award forNew Irish Poetry, two have won the Cúirt New Writing Prize, one has been awarded an Arts Council Bursary and yet another won the Cúirt Poetry Grand Slam, while several have published collections of their poems. Kevin is also co-organiser of the successful Over The Edge reading series which specialises in promoting new writers.
Each workshop will run for ten weeks, commencing the week of September 23rd. They will take place on Tuesday evenings, 7-8.30pm (first class September 24th), Thursday afternoons, 2-4pm (first class September 26th); and on Friday afternoons, 2-3.30pm (first class September 27th).
The Tuesday evening and Friday afternoon workshops are open to both complete beginners as well as those who’ve been writing for some time. The Thursday afternoon workshop is an Advanced Poetry Workshop, suitable for those who’ve participated in poetry workshops before or had poems published in magazines. The cost to participants is €110, with a concession rate.
Places must be paid for in advance. To reserve a place contact reception at Galway Arts Centre, 47 Dominick Street, phone 091 565886 or email info@galwayartscentre.ie
