We are delighted to announce that the last seminar of term will feature the poet and critic Gerald Dawe in conversation with Maria Johnston. Gerald will read from his forthcoming poetry collection and work in progress Points West. This will be followed by the end-of-term wine reception.
Gerald Dawe was born in Belfast in 1952 and educated at the University of Ulster at Coleraine and University College Galway (now National University of Ireland, Galway) where he taught from 1977 to 1987. He is a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin where he lectures in English and directs the graduate writing programme. He was Burns Visiting Professor at Boston College in 2005. His first collection of poems, Sheltering Places (Blackstaff) was published in 1978. His second collection, The Lundys Letter (1985) published by The Gallery Press, was awarded the Macaulay Fellowship in Literature. Other awards include Arts Council Bursaries for Poetry, the Hawthornden International Writers' Fellowship and the Ledig-Rowholt International Writers' Award. His subsequent poetry collections, Sunday School (1991), Heart of Hearts (1995), The Morning Train (1999) and Lake Geneva (2003) have also been published by The Gallery Press. His collected essays, The Proper Word was published in 2007. My Mother-City, a memoir, also appeared in 2007 along with a special issue of An Sionnach. He is the new presenter of the RTE Poetry Programme.
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