POETRY WORKSHOP 2010
The Poetry Workshop will be conducted
this year by Nick Laird.
Timetable:
Saturday 31st July
9.30am to 4.30pm (with a short break for lunch)
Sunday 1st August
9.30am to noon
As places are limited, students of the Summer School are given first preference if they
wish to opt for the 2-day Workshop. Everyone participating pays the fee of €100.
Members of the public interested in participating should leave their name with the Yeats
Society office to be placed on a waiting list for any available places. The Workshop is
conducted in the Library of the Yeats Memorial Building itself.
Nick Laird |
Nicholas
'Nick' Laird (Born 1975, Northen
Ireland) is a novelist and poet who was born, and grew up,
in Cookstown,County Tyrone. He studied at Sidney Sussex College
Cambridge, where he attained a first in English. He went on
to work at the global law firm Allen & Overy in London
for six years, before leaving to concentrate on his writing.
Since 2004, he has been married to novelist Zadie Smith, whom
he met while at Cambridge, and as of 2009, they have a daughter,
Katherine
To
a Fault and Utterly Monkey were both long
listed for the inaugural Dylan Thomas Prize. To a Fault
won the Jerwood Aldeburgh Prize, the Ireland Chair for
Poetry Award and the Rupert and Eithne Strong Award. It was
also shortlisted for the Forward Poetry Prize for First Collection
and longlisted for the
Guardian
First Book Award.
Laird
was also the recipient of the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature
in 2005.
Utterly
Monkey won the Betty Trask Prize for best first novel
in 2005. It was also shortlisted for the Commonwealth best
first novel award, the Irish novel of the year award, and
the Kerry Group Listowel Fiction prize.
On Purpose won
a Somerset Maugham Award and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize
in 2007.
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