One captures Ireland, the other Australia - a unique and lively gathering as two wondrous poets meet.

Conor O'Callaghan was born in Newry in 1968 and is the author of three collections of poetry, The History of Rain, Seatown and Fiction. He has been awarded the Patrick Kavanagh Award and Poetry magazine's Bess Hokin Prize. He is also the author of Red Mist: Roy Keane and the Football Civil War, and lives in Manchester. Winner of all of Australia's top poetry awards,

Robert Gray captures an essence of his country in both poetry and memoir: 'No-one has seen this country as sharply, or with as much tenderness, as he has done' - Kevin Hart

Recordings of an event held Tuesday 6th October 2009.

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Ultima modifica

• 10/19/2024

Contributori

• Gray, Robert
• O'Callaghan, Conor
• Goodman, Martin

Contributor type

• creator

Subject

• Larkin Centre
• Poetry
• Australia
• Ireland
• Visiting writers

Publisher

• The University of Hull

Identifier

• hull:2247

Related item publisher

• The University of Hull

Resource type general

• Event