THE JOHN HEWITT BIRTHDAY READING With Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe, Jane Clarke and David Nash

The John Hewitt Society presents THE JOHN HEWITT BIRTHDAY READING With Nidhi Zak/ Aria Eipe, Jane Clarke and David Nash
Presented in association with The Belfast International Arts Festival with Partnership Funding from Poetry Ireland. 

Three critically acclaimed Irish poets will read from recent work to mark the birth date of the celebrated Belfast-born poet, John Hewitt, in the pub name after him.

Wednesday 30 October 2024, 8.00pm
The John Hewitt Bar, 51 Donegall Street, Belfast
Ticket Prices: £10/£8 
Booking: 028 90246609 or from here

Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe, poet, pacifist and fabulist, was born in India and now calls Ireland home. Her first collection, Auguries of a Minor God (Faber & Faber, 2021) was finalist for the Dylan Thomas Prize and the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize, and was chosen as a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Her poems have been widely published in literary journals and anthologies, and have been broadcast on RTE Radio 1 and BBC Radio London.

Jane Clarke, who lives in Co Wicklow, has published three collections of poetry with Bloodaxe Books: The River (2003), When the Tree falls (*2019) and A Change in the Air (2023) which was shortlisted for the T S Eliot Poetry Prize, the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2023 and the Farmgate Café National Poetry Award 2024. All The Way Home, an illustrated sequence of poems in response to a soldier's letters from the Front during World War 1, was published in 2019.

David Nash was born in Co. Cork and lives between Ireland and Chile. His debut collection of poems, No Man’s Land (Dedalus Press, 2023) was shortlisted for the Piggot Poetry Prize and the Ondatjee Prize of the Royal Society of Literature, and received the Seamus Heaney First Collection Prize in 2004. His work is widely published in journals and anthologies, and his texts have appeared in numerous art exhibitions and books, including for Wolfgang Tillmans at IMMA.