Change in festival lineup

The Cork International Poetry Festival reading of Romalyn Ante & Mary O’Malley at 8.30pm 17th May has been changed. Unfortunately, Romalyn Ante is unable to attend as previously advertised. However, we are happy to say that Theresa Muñoz will now be reading alongside Mary O’Malley. https://www.corkpoetryfest.net/saturday.html

Theresa Muñoz was born in Vancouver, Canada and lives in Edinburgh. She has a PhD in Scottish Literature from the University of Glasgow, where she wrote the first PhD on the work of Tom Leonard. Her first collection of poetry, Settle, was shortlisted for the Melita Hume Poetry Prize. Her second, Archivum, will be published in May by Pavilion Poetry. She has been awarded the Muriel Spark Centenary Award, Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship, Creative Scotland Award and shortlisted for The Kavya Prize and a Sky Arts Royal Society of Literature Writers Award. She has directed several literary initiatives in the UK, including the Newcastle Poetry Festival and the James Berry Poetry Prize.

“Archivum is a work of encounter, an electric exploration of the spaces between self and artefact, self and city, self and history. Within its pages, the dead are bid to speak and the author is transformed by the exchange. Muñoz’s work is restless, kind, careful and deftly attuned to poetry’s power to make and re-make us.” — Sinéad Morrissey