Date: Wednesday 30th October 2024
Time: 8.00pm
Venue: The MAC – THE FACTORY (level 6), Exchange Street West, Belfast.
Ticket: £10 & £8 (Conc.)
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The John Hewitt Society presents…
JOHN HEWITT’S BIRTHDAY READING
with poets JANE CLARKE, NIDHI ZAK/ARIA EIPE & DAVID NASH.
Join us for our annual Poetry Reading event to mark the birth date of the Belfast poet John Hewitt.
Jane Clarke is an award-winning Irish poet. She has published three collections of poetry with Bloodaxe Books: The River (2015), When the Tree falls (2019) and A Change in the Air (2023) which was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Poetry Prize 2023, the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2023, and the Farmgate Café National Poetry Award 2024. Her anthology Windfall: Irish Nature Poems to Inspire and Connect (Hachette Books Ireland, 2023) was illustrated by Jane Carkill. Coracle, a limited-edition booklet of ten poems responding to biodiversity loss and restoration, was commissioned and published by the Museum of Literature Ireland, in 2023. janeclarkepoetry.ie/
Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe, poet, pacifist and fabulist, was born in India and now calls Ireland home. Her debut poetry collection, Auguries of a Minor God (Faber & Faber, 2021) was a finalist for the Dylan Thomas Prize and the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize. Her poems have been widely published and broadcast on RTE Radio 1 and BBC Radio London. ariaeipe.com/ Photo credit-Gillian Hyland.
David Nash is a poet and translator from County Cork. His pamphlet, The Islands of Chile, was published in 2022. In 2024, his first full poetry collection, No Man’s Land (Dedalus Press, 2023) won the QUB Seamus Heaney First Collection Prize, and was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature’s Ondaatje Prize. David lives between Ireland and Chile. davidnash.ie/
Presented in association with the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Poetry Ireland & Belfast International Arts Festival.
