Poems on a Pew

Kate Quigley will launch the Poetry Town week of activities with two 15-minute readings as people attend their local market outside the village hall.

Kate Quigley is a graduate of NUI Galway's BA Connect with Creative Writing. Kate's work has been published in a number of Irish & UK journals including The Stinging Fly, Orbis, Banshee & The Shop. Their debut poetry pamphlet, If You Love Something was published by Rack Press in October 2019. Kate has also been selected for the Stinging Fly Poetry Summer School 2019 & the Poetry Ireland Introductions Series 2020.

Joining Kate will be Michael Durack. Born on a farm near Birdhill, Co. Tipperary, his memoir in prose and poems, Saved to Memory: Lost to View, was issued in 2016, and in September 2017 his first poetry collection, Where It Began, was published by Revival Press. Michael now lives in Ballina, Co. Tipperary.