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Stephen Sexton & Kathleen McCracken at John Hewitt Society International Summer School

This in-person poetry reading will also be livestreamed as part of the John Hewitt International Summer School.

Thursday 29 July, 11.15am

Market Place Theatre, Armagh / Online

Tickets: £8 / €9.50


Stephen Sexton 

“Stephen Sexton’s much-anticipated debut – and recent winner of the 2019 Forward Prize for the Best First Collection – is a remarkable requiem for the poet’s mother and for the worlds of childhood imagination.”—Lily Ní Dhomhnaill in The Stinging Fly.

Kathleen McCracken 

Kathleen McCracken is the author of eight collections of poetry including Blue Light, Bay and College, and Tatoo Land. In 2019 she won the Seamus Heaney Award for New Writing, with her poem Chironomy.


See all information about the festival at http://www.johnhewittsociety.org/