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Poetry Reading at Ballina Arts Centre
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Sunday February 01, 2009 02:16
by Over The Edge
Poetry Reading: Kevin Higgins
At Ballina Arts Centre Thursday 19th February, 8pm
Kevin Higgins will be giving a poetry reading
at Ballina Arts Centre
on Thursday 19th February, 8pm
ALL WELCOME
Kevin Higgins was born in London in 1967, and grew up in Galway
City where he still lives. He is co-organiser of the highly successful
Over The Edge literary events. His two poetry collections are The Boy
With No Face (Salmon, 2005) and, Time Gentlemen, Please (Salmon,2008). The Boy With No Face was short-listed for the 2006 Strong Award and has recently gone to its second printing. One of the poems from Time Gentlemen, Please, ‘My Militant Tendency’, features in the Forward Book of Poetry 2009. He is the poetry critic of The Galway Advertiser. His work will be featured in the forthcoming anthology Identity Parade – The New British and Irish Poets (Bloodaxe, 2010). His third collection of poems Frightening New Furniture will be published by Salmon Poetry next year.
