Bloodaxe Poets at Cork International Poetry Festival 2025
Cork International Poetry Festival is running from 13-17 May 2025. Full details of the festival are available on their website here. Three Bloodaxe poets are taking part this year: Jane Clarke, Marie Howe and Krisztina Tóth.
Thursday 15 May 2025, 10pm
Cork Arts Theatre, Camden Court, Knapps Square, Carroll's Quay, T23 X72D
Jane Clarke (Ireland) & Pádraig Ó Tuama (Ireland)
Jane Clarke will be reading alongside poet and podcaster Pádraig Ó Tuama. Moderated by Liz Quirke. This will be a wonderful event. Jane will read from her third collection A Change in the Air.
Pádraig Ó Tuama is the host of the American podcast Poetry Unbound with On Being Studios. His close readings of the poems he features are always enlightening and often very moving. He featured 'Leaving Early' from Cork poet Leanne O'Sullivan's book-length sequence A Quarter of an Hour on the podcast in April 2020. Listen here.
Tickets: €5
For further information & booking details for Thursday's events, see here.
Saturday 17 May 2025, 10pm
Cork Arts Theatre, Camden Court, Knapps Square, Carroll's Quay, T23 X72D
Marie Howe (USA) & Krisztina Tóth (Hungary)
This final event of the festival brings together two poets recently published for the first time in the UK and Ireland by Bloodaxe. American poet Marie Howe's retrospective What the Earth Seemed to Say: New and Selected Poems was published in November 2024. Hungarian poet and novelist Krisztina Tóth's My Secret Life: Selected Poems (translated by George Szirtes) was published in February 2025.
Tickets: €5
For further information & bookings for Saturday's events, see here.
[13 March 2025]
