FRED Johnston’s new poetry collection entitled ‘Alligator Days’ is to launch in the White House Bar on Wednesday December 27 at 9.00pm. Johnston is extremely fond of Limerick and often visits, this also is his ninth poetry collection.
Fred Johnston was born in Belfast in 1951 he and in 1972 he received a Hennessy Literary Award for prose. He has eight collections of poetry, three novels and two volumes of short stories published already.
He received the Prix de l’Ambassade in 2000 and has accepted several Arts Council bursaries. As well as that he has also received an Arts Council of Ireland literature bursary and one from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.
Johnston was the founder of Galway’s international literature festival, CÚIRT, in 1986. He is keen on writing poetry in French and has been published in many France-based literary journals.
