Livres de Dialogue

Join artist Jim Butler and poet David Butler for a display of, and talk about, books of poems and images. In particular the talk will look at spaces of the book, as a place where poems and images interact. It will feature a display of books at the Wren Library, including Jim and David's two collaborative projects, Blackrock Sequence (2017) and the first viewing and launch of Liffey Sequence (2025).

Jim Butler was born in Dublin, trained at Manchester School of Art. He has lived in Cambridge since 2007 where he is a senior lecturer at Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University. His practice is centred around screenprinting, etching and relief printing, hand-printed artist’s books, collages and drawings. His work has been exhibited widely in galleries in the UK, Europe, Mexico and the USA and is held in numerous leading public collections worldwide. Illustration clients include The Guardian, The NHS, Adidas, Doire Press and New Island Books. His screenprinted book Blackrock Sequence won the 2018 AOI World Illustration Award for best professional book.

David Butler is an Irish novelist, poet and playwright. His third novel City of Dis (New Island) was shortlisted for the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year, 2015. Arlen House published his second story collection, Fugitive, in 2021, while his latest novel, Jabberwock, was published under pen-name Dara Kavanagh by Dedalus Books in 2023. He has three poetry collections to date, the most recent Blackrock Sequence, brought out by Doire Press in 2021. Literary awards include the Ted McNulty, Brendan Kennelly, Féile Filíochta and Poetry Ireland / Trócaire for poetry, and the Maria Edgeworth (twice), Benedict Kiely, Colm Tóibín, ChipLit Fest and Fish International for the short story.

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