2012 Breaking News

Call for applications for the dlr Strong Award in partnership with Shine

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Sarah Webb and Tom Donegan announced as Curator/Programmer of School and Family Events at Mountains to Sea dlr Book Festival 2012

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“Maureen Kennelly announced as new Curator of Mountains to Sea dlr Book Festival 2012”

Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council is delighted to announce that Maureen Kennelly has been appointed as the curator of Mountains to Sea, dlr Book Festival which will take place in September 2012.

Mountains to Sea dlr Book Festival honours the unique literary landscape of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown by providing opportunities for the public to hear the very best of Irish and international writers read from their work. Literary fiction is at the heart of Mountains to Sea dlr Book Festival but events cover an array of genres.

Maureen Kennelly is a freelance arts producer and programmer and she is currently Project Manager with the Crafts Council of Ireland for Year of Craft. She is a co-founder and director with Fergus Cronin of Spool, a company established to promote live literature events and other arts projects. She was Programme Director of the Cúirt International Festival of Literature, Galway for 2009 and 2010. She will curate Theatre Forum’s annual conference in June 2012. She was previously director of Kilkenny Arts Festival, artistic director of the Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray and she has also worked with Fishamble New Writing Theatre Company, Druid Theatre Company and The Arts Council. In March 2011, she was creative producer of DublinSwell, staged at the Convention Centre, Dublin as the first major celebration of the UNESCO City of Literature designation.

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“Paul Perry announced as new Curator of Poetry Now”

Poetry Now at Mountains to Sea, dlr Book Festival
Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council Arts Office are delighted to announce that poet Paul Perry has been appointed as the curator of Poetry Now at Mountains to Sea, dlr Book Festival.

The dlr Poetry Now International Poetry Festival has been a core strand of the Dún-Laoghaire Rathdown County Council Arts Office programme for the last sixteen years. It is highly regarded for its artistic excellence and has become the most anticipated event on the annual poetry calendar in Ireland. Previous curators have included Patrick Galvin, Conor O’Callaghan and John McAuliffe. The outgoing curator is Belinda McKeon, who curated the festival from 2008 to 2011.

In 2012 for the first time dlr Poetry Now International Poetry Festival will become an integral strand within Mountains to Sea dlr Book Festival. Poetry Now will retain the quality and variety that the festival is renowned for while introducing new audiences to poetry and providing them with enriching artistic experiences.

Paul Perry is the author of a number of critically acclaimed books of poetry including The Drowning of the Saints, The Orchid Keeper, and most recently The Last Falcon and Small Ordinance (The Dedalus Press, 2010) which Dermot Bolger described as ‘the work of a singular imagination.’ His work has appeared in the TLS, The Irish Times, The Best American Poetry 2000 and The Best Irish Poetry 2007. His translations include 108 Moons: The Selected Poems of Jurga Ivanauskaite and he is editor of the forthcoming Beyond The Workshop, KU Press 2011. A winner of The Hennessy New Irish Writer of The Year Award, he is a Lecturer in Creative Writing for Kingston University, London, and Writer Fellow for University College Dublin.