A collection of poems by New York-based writer David McLoghlin will be launched in Limerick on Friday, December 22.
‘Santiago Sketches’, a poetic diary of an odyssey he made to Santiago de Compostela, is his second collection and the launch will take place in St Munchin’s Church (next to Bishop’s Palace), Old Church Street, King’s Island.
Born in Dublin in 1972, David McLoghlin is the author of ‘Waiting for Saint Brendan and Other Poems’, a section of which was awarded second prize in The Patrick Kavanagh Awards, and ‘Sign Tongue’, translations from the work of Chilean poet Enrique Winter, which won the 2014 Goodmorning Menagerie Chapbook-in-Translation prize.
He received a major Bursary from The Arts Council in 2006, and was the Howard Nemerov Scholar at the 2011 Sewanee Writers’ Conference. Between 2003 and 2005 he received three grants to study Galician in Santiago de Compostela.
Most recently, he was a prize-winning finalist for the 2015 Ballymaloe International Poetry Prize. His work has been broadcast on WNYC’s Radiolab, and published in journals such as Poetry Ireland Review, Barrow Street, The Stinging Fly, Cimarron Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review and Poetry International.
To attend Friday evening’s launch of Santiago Sketches, email [email protected]
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