AUDIENCES from Ireland, UK, Slovenia and Europe took part in and attended the 20th annual Cuisle Limerick City International Poetry Festival, which ran over the past five days.
The event concluded on Sunday 19 having featured leading Irish poets such as Geraldine Mitchell, Conor O’Callaghan, Tom French, Dr. Bridget Wallace, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Macdara Woods, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill and Paddy Bushe.
Cuisle included newer names with the Limerick based Edward O’Dwyer and Caleb Brennan while special guests John Davies and Sam Riviere from the UK were joined by European poets Iztok Osojnik and Veronika Dintinjana.
There were lunchtime and evening readings, writing workshops for schools, an open mic night, and the launch of the annual anthology of poetry, ‘The Stony Thursday Book’, edited by Peter Sirr. Tim Cunningham delivered his new collection of poetry, ‘Almost Memories’, published by Revival Press
The festival featured special tributes to the poetry of Samuel Beckett including a reading by the Fourfront Poets of a selection of Beckett poems and a lecture, entitled ‘The Poetry Of Samuel Beckett’, by eminent Joyce and Beckett scholar Gerry Dukes. The lecture was specially commissioned for Cuisle.
