ACES Literary Salon
Templar Poets II
ACES Literary Salon
Templar Poets II
With Ian Harker , Jane Weir , Tom Kelly & Matt Kirkham
Crescent Arts Centre Sunday 12 June – 1.30pm Tickets : Free
Crescent Arts Centre Sunday 12 June – 5pm Tickets : Free
Join the literature recipients of the Arts Council of Northern Ireland ’ s ACES award for a showcase of writing depth and talent , from some of the country ’ s most upcoming artists .
The Artists Career Enhancement Scheme ( ACES ) is made annually to professional artists working in music , visual arts , literature and participatory arts , allowing them to develop their professional artistic careers , and is the most prestigious award bestowed by the Arts Council annually .
The line-up includes :
Darren Anderson ( novelist ), Colin Dardis ( poet ), Andrew Eaton ( poet ), Emma Heatherington ( novelist ), Hilary McCollum ( playwright ), Chelley McLear ( poet and storyteller ), Maria McManus ( poet ), Geraldine O ’ Kane ( poet ) and Lesley Richardson ( novelist ).
In Ian Harker ’ s debut collection , The End of the Sky , an astronaut discovers that stars are not quite as he expected and TS Eliot steams out to sea disguised as an ocean liner ; these poems reveal miracles in many guises wherever they take us .
Jane Weir was joint winner of the Jackson Dawson Award for poetry ( 2003 ). The Way I Dressed During the Revolution , was shortlisted in the Glen Dimplex New Writers Award and she was the winner of the Wigtown Poetry Competition , 2008 .
Tom Kelly ’ s The Hoopoe at the execution ,
Villebois was written during several years of researching Amazonian wetlands . Although these poems appear to inhabit the natural world , they intersect with deep human preoccupations .
Matt Kirkham ’ s first collection , The Lost
Museums won the 2006 Rupert and Eithne Strong Prize for best first collection in Ireland . His second collection , The Dumbo
Octopus , explores the fabric and life of a Co . Down smallholding .
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