The Poetry Workshop will be conducted this year by Sinead Morrissey.

Timetable:

Saturday 1st August
9.30am to 4.30pm (with a short break for lunch)

Sunday 2nd 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.

Sinead Morrissey

Poet Sinéad Morrissey was born in 1972 in Portadown, County Armagh, Northern Ireland. She has published four collections of poetry: There Was Fire in Vancouver (1996); Between Here and There (2002); The State of the Prisons (2005); and Through the Square Window (2009). She was the 2002 Poetry International Writer in Residence at the Royal Festival Hall and is currently Writer in Residence at Queen's University, Belfast. Having lived and worked in Japan and New Zealand, she now lives in Northern Ireland. She was selected by the British Council to take part in the Writers' Train Project in China in 2003. In 2007 she was awarded a Lannan Literary Fellowship.