David Park Gods And Angels
Carcanet ’ s New Generation Showcase
Helen Tookey , Caoilinn Hughes & Tara Bergin With Stephen Connolly
Crescent Arts Centre Thursday 9 June – 6-7pm Tickets : £ 6 /£ 4
Tara Bergin , raised in Dublin , moved to England in 2002 . In 2012 she completed her PhD research at Newcastle University and her debut collection This is Yarrow was published in 2013 , winning the Seamus Heaney First Collection Prize 2014 .
Caoilinn Hughes ’ first collection , Gathering
Evidence , was published by Carcanet in 2014 . Poems from the collection have won the 2012 Patrick Kavanagh Award , the 2013 Cúirt New Writing Prize and Trócaire / Poetry Ireland Competition . Born in Galway , she completed her BA and Masters degrees at QUB and moved to New Zealand in 2007 to complete her Ph . D .
Helen Tookey teaches Creative Writing in Liverpool . Her short collection Telling the
Fractures , with photographer Alan Ward , was published in 2008 . Her verse was anthologised in New Poetries V and in Best British Poetry 2013 and 2014 . Her debut collection , Missel-Child , was published in 2014 and shortlisted for the 2015 Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry Prize for First Full Collection .
David Park Gods And Angels
With Malachi O ’ Doherty
Crescent Arts Centre Thursday 9 June – 7.15-8.15pm Tickets : £ 8 /£ 6
A seventeen-year-old boy visits his estranged mother on Boxing Day ; a lecturer falls in with a group of older men who inhabit a very different world while learning to swim ; and a detective breaks into his former home to spy on his estranged family . Bringing together deeply affecting stories exploring masculinity , loneliness , isolation and longing , Gods and Angels is a masterful collection .
David Park has written nine previous books including The Light of Amsterdam ( shortlisted for the 2014 International IMPAC Prize ), and The Poets ’ Wives , ( selected as Belfast ’ s Choice for One City One Book 2014 ). He has won the Authors ’ Club First Novel Award , the Bass Ireland Arts Award for Literature , the Ewart- Biggs Memorial Prize , the American Ireland Fund Literary Award and the University of Ulster ’ s McCrea Literary Award , three times . He has received a Major Individual Artist Award from the ACNI and been shortlisted for the Irish Novel of the Year Award three times .
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