ACES Literary
Salon
Templar Poets II
Crescent Arts Centre
Sunday 12 June – 1.30pm
Tickets: Free
Crescent Arts Centre
Sunday 12 June – 5pm
Tickets: Free
Elmwood Hall
Sunday 12 June – 5pm
Tickets: £10/£8
Crescent Arts Centre
Sunday 12 June – 6.30pm
Tickets: £6/£4
Join the literature recipients of the Arts
Council of Northern Ireland’s ACES award
for a showcase of writing depth and talent,
from some of the country’s most upcoming
artists.
In Ian Harker’s debut collection, The End
of the Sky, an astronaut discovers that stars
are not quite as he expected and TS Eliot
steams out to sea disguised as an ocean
liner; these poems reveal miracles in many
guises wherever they take us.
Over the past two centuries or so,
capitalism has undergone continual change
- economic cycles that lurch from boom to
bust - and has always emerged transformed
and strengthened. Surveying this turbulent
history, Paul Mason wonders whether today
we are on the brink of a change so big, so
profound, that this time capitalism itself,
has reached its limits and is changing into
something wholly new.
A bomb blast in the London Underground
rips through space and time, unearthing
four stories that whirl, collide and pass each
other by.
The Artists Career Enhancement Scheme
(ACES) is made annually to professional
artists working in music, visual arts,
literature and participatory arts, allowing
them to develop their professional artistic
careers, and is the most prestigious award
bestowed by the Arts Council annually.
The line-up includes:
Darren Anderson (novelist), Colin
Dardis (poet), Andrew Eaton (poet),
Emma Heatherington (novelist), Hilary
McCollum (playwright), Chelley McLear
(poet and storyteller), Maria McManus
(poet), Geraldine O’Kane (poet) and Lesley
Richardson (novelist).
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With Ian Harker, Jane Weir,
Tom Kelly & Matt Kirkham
Jane Weir was joint winner of the Jackson
Dawson Award for poetry (2003). The
Way I Dressed During the Revolution,
was shortlisted in the Glen Dimplex New
Writers Award and she was the winner of
the Wigtown Poetry Competition, 2008.
Tom Kelly’s The Hoopoe at the execution,
Villebois was written during several years
of researching Amazonian wetlands.
Although these poems appear to inhabit
the natural world, they intersect with deep
human preoccupations.
Matt Kirkham’s first collection, The Lost
Museums won the 2006 Rupert and
Eithne Strong Prize for best first collection
in Ireland. His second collection, The Dumbo
Octopus, explores the fabric and life of a Co.
Down smallholding.
Paul Mason
Postcapitalism
Mia Gallagher
With Martina Devlin
With Rosemary Jenkinson
At the heart of this change is information
technology: a revolution that, as Mason
shows, has the potential to reshape utterly
our familiar notions of work, production and
value; and to destroy an economy based on
markets and private ownership - in fact, he
contends, it is already doing so.
In this groundbreaking, Sunday Times top
ten book, Mason, the former award-winning
Channel 4 presenter shows how, from the
ashes of the recent financial crisis, we have
the chance to create a more socially just
and sustainable global economy.
Beautiful Pictures Of
The Lost Homeland
Georgia flees Dublin, embarking on a road
trip spiked with the hidden dangers of
her past and present. In the 1970s, as the
Madden family begins to disintegrate, a
disruptive stranger arrives who will bind
them, briefly. While the underground bomb
ticks down, an elderly German woman,
recounts her own war story to a film crew.
And all along a parallel reality, we are led
through an unsettling and volatile Museum
of Curiosities.
The past crosses and weaves with the
present and the fragmented lives of four
people become a haunting whole.
Mia Gallagher’s debut novel, HellFire,
was widely acclaimed and received the
Irish Tatler Women of the Year Literature
Award in 2007. Mia has received several
Literature Bursaries from the Arts Council of
Ireland and has been writer-in-residence in
many different environments.
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