Poet; Kevin Higgins will be in
UHG THIS WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 2nd from 12noon to
2pm for an open workshop. The workshop will take place on the second floor in
t
he Lecture room between St. Pius’ and St. Nicholas’ ward.
All staff, patients and visitors to UHG are welcome to drop in to the
session anytime during the two hours. Kevin will give participants creative
writing exercises to get them writing. People who have written something
already and would like feedback or advice are welcome to bring in their poems
or stories.
The workshops will take place fortnightly on Wednesday
October 2nd, Wednesday October 16th, Wednesday October 30th,
Wednesday November 13th, Wednesday November 27th &
Wednesday, December 11th
Kevin Higgins was born in London in 1967, and grew up in Galway
City where he still lives. He is co-organiser of the highly successful Over The
Edge literary events. He facilitates poetry workshops at Galway Arts
Centre; teaches creative writing at Galway Technical Institute and on the
Brothers of Charity Away With Words creative writing programme for people with
disabilities. He is also Writer-in-Residence at Merlin Park Hospital and the
poetry critic of the Galway Advertiser. He was a founding co-editor of The
Burning Bush literary magazine. His first collection of poems The Boy With No
Face was published by Salmon in February 2005 and was short-listed for the 2006
Strong Award. His second collection, Time Gentlemen, Please, was published in
March 2008 by Salmon. One of the poems from Time Gentlemen, Please, ‘My
Militant Tendency’, featured in the Forward Book of Poetry 2009. His work
also features in the anthology Identity Parade – New British and Irish Poets
(Ed Roddy Lumsden, Bloodaxe, 2010). Frightening New Furniture is his third
collection of poems and was published in 2010 by Salmon Poetry. Kevin has read
his work at most of the major literary festivals in Ireland and at Arts Council
and Culture Ireland supported poetry events in Kansas City, USA (2006), Los
Angeles, USA (2007), London, UK (2007), New York, USA (2008), Athens, Greece
(2008); St. Louis, USA (2008), Chicago, USA (2009), Denver, USA (2010),
Washington D.C (2011), Huntington, West Virginia, USA (2011), Geelong,
Australia (2011), Canberra, Australia (2011), St. Louis, USA (2013), Boston,
USA (2013) & Amherst, Massachusetts (2013). Mentioning The War, a
collection of his essays and reviews was published in April 2012 by
Salmon. Mentioning The War has been described by Clare Daly T.D. as “a
really good and provocative read. It will jolt you; it will certainly touch
you; make you laugh; maybe make you snarl a little bit as well, depending on
where you come from or what your background is.” Kevin’s fourth collection of
poetry, The Ghost In The Lobby, will be published by Salmon Poetry in early
2014.
For
further details contact
Margaret
Flannery
Arts
Director
Galway
University Hospitals Arts Trust
Galway
University Hospitals
Newcastle
Road
Galway
Tel:
+353 (0)91 544979
