Kevin Higgins to read at Spirit of The Voice

galway | arts and media | event notice Monday September 18, 2006 01:39 by poetry news

The Spirit of the Voice Festival presents a poetry reading by Kevin Higgins at Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop, Middle Street, Galway on Thursday, November 2nd, 6pm.

Kevin Higgins lives in Galway, Ireland, where with his wife Susan Millar DuMars he co-organises the Over The Edge: Open Reading series.

His first collection of poems The Boy With No Face was published by Salmon in February 2005. Also in 2005 he was short-listed for the Hennessy Award for Poetry and awarded a Literature Bursary by the Irish Arts Council. The Boy With No Face was short-listed for the 2006 Strong Award for Best First Collection by an Irish poet.

A collection of Kevin’s essays and reviews, Poetry, Politics & Dorothy Gone Horribly Astray, is published by Lapwing Press in Autumn 2006.

A second collection of poems, Time Gentlemen, Please will be published by Salmon in 2008.

For further details go to http://www.spiritofvoice.com or phone Ger Mulkerrins 086-3367129