Poetry Book Launch Tuesday 4th November

Celebrating 50 years of Arlen House, we will enjoy new work from 5 wonderful contemporary poets from North and South, in English and Irish.

Ruth Carr reading from her 4th collection, Catching the Missing Beat

Deirdre Cartmill with Under the Blue Seraphim, her 4th collection

Csilla Toldy, Hungarian poet living in Northern Ireland for over 40 years, reading from Firebird, her debut poetry collection

Celia de Fréine reading from Aibítir Aoise : Alphabet of an Age, her 12th poetry collection

and Luke Morgan with his 3rd collection, Blood Atlas, winner of the 2025 Laurence O'Shaughnessy Award, the biggest award in Irish poetry

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