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This year the festival takes place from September 1st to 11th. We have extended our festival due to the phenomenal success over the past two years and the strength of our programming.

The festival will open with a fabulous event on Thursday September 1st, with Canadian novelist, Michael Ondaatje, best known for his Booker prize winning novel, The English Patient, reading at the Pavilion. He will read from his new novel The Cat's Table.

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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.