Karen Solie: Reading and In-Conversation

Schedule

Tue Jun 23 2026 at 06:00 pm to 07:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

The Seamus Heaney Centre | Belfast, NI

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Join us for a reading and in-conversation with Karen Solie, recent Windham-Campbell Prize winner
About this Event

Karen Solie is the author of six collections of poetry. Her most recent, Wellwater (Picador, 2025), won the Forward Prize for Best Collection, the Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry, is shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize, and was shortlisted for the PEN Heaney Prize. A 2023 Guggenheim Fellow, she teaches half-time for the University of St Andrews, and is this year's Shaftesbury Creative Writer-in-Residence for Victoria College at the University of Toronto.

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The Seamus Heaney Centre, 38-40 University Road, Belfast, United Kingdom

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