Join us for this event with the award-winning Sinéad Morrissey in conversation with the Art Council’s Damian Smyth about her forthcoming memoir and the synergy between politics and culture. Raised in a Communist family in Belfast during the Troubles, Sinéad’s latest work explores belief, alternative narratives and the relationship of sudden endings to poetry.
Sinéad Morrissey is Professor of Creative Writing at the School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics, Newcastle University. She is the author of six collections: There was Fire in Vancouver (1996), Between Here and There (2002), The State of the Prisons (2005), Through the Square Window (2009), Parallax (2013) and On Balance (2017).
Her awards include first prize in the UK National Poetry Competition and the E M Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Both Through the Square Window and Parallax received the Irish Times Poetry Prize. She was the winner of the TS Eliot Prize in 2013, the Forward Prize in 2017 and was awarded the European Poet of Freedom Award in 2020. She is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Dr Damian Smyth is joint Head of Literature and Drama at the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.
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