The John Hewitt Society Birthday Readings 2024

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Three critically acclaimed poets read from their recent work to mark the birth date of the celebrated Belfast-born poet, John Hewitt.

Jane Clarke is the Irish author of three collections of poetry: 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 2023, the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2023, and the Farmgate Café National Poetry Award 2024.

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 was a finalist for the Dylan Thomas Prize and the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize. Her poems have been widely published and broadcast on RTE Radio 1 and BBC Radio London.

David Nash is a poet and translator from County Cork. His pamphlet, The Islands of Chile, came out in 2022 and his first full collection, No Man’s Land (2023) won the Seamus Heaney Prize in 2024, and was shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize. He lives between Ireland and Chile.

Presented in association with Poetry Ireland.

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