Belfast Book Fesival 2017 Belfast Book Festival 2017 | Page 58

CATHERINE DUNNE
IN CONVERSATION WITH FEDERICA FERRIERI
Award-winning Irish author Catherine Dunne will be in conversation
with Italy’s Honorary Consul, Federica Ferrieri discussing the various
madnesses of the writing life, the perils of translation and the challenges
currently facing the humble book.
Catherine, who was recently long-listed for the inaugural Laureate for
Irish Fiction, is the author of ten novels and one work of social history;
An Unconsidered People, which explores the lives of Irish immigrants in
London in the 1950s.
7PM // £7 | £5 // CRESCENT ARTS
THE LIFEBOAT
Now a festival staple, The Lifeboat poetry readings return, this year
featuring Rebecca Perry, Joey Connolly and Susannah Dickey.
Rebecca Perry’s first collection Beauty/Beauty was published in
2015 and was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. Her pamphlet, Little
Armoured won the Poetry Wales Purple Moose Prize and was a
Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice. She co-edits the online
journal Poems In Which.
Joey Connolly’s first collection Long Pass was published by
Carcanet in 2017. He received an Eric Gregory award in 2012, and
his poetry was featured in Carcanet’s New Poetries VI. He co-founded
the poetry magazine Kaffeeklatsch.
Susannah Dickey has just finished a BA in English with Creative Writing
at Queen’s University Belfast. Her poetry has appeared in Poetry
Ireland Review, Ambit and The Tangerine. She was the winner of the
inaugural Verve Poetry Festival competition.
8PM // FREE EVENT // SUNFLOWER BAR
Sat 17 Jun