Theo Dorgan reads from Nine Bright Shiners

Cork-born Theo Dorgan is a novelist, translator, editor, sailor and poet whose most recent collection of poems, Nine Bright Shiners (Dedalus Press, 2014) was an Irish Times notable book of the year.  He has also won the O’Shaughnessy Award for Irish Poetry and Listowel Prize for Poetry.

Theo Dorgan will read from Nine Bright Shiners, a sequence of elegies that reflect on early and recent deaths, from the loss of his infant sister to that of a contemporary by suicide. The book is unflinching in facing up to death and the poet’s own mortality, but these dark meditations are framed by, subsumed into, whole-hearted celebrations of love, life, art and voyaging.

A former Director of Poetry Ireland/Éigse Éireann, Theo has worked extensively as a broadcaster of literary programs on both radio and television.   His other poetry collections include The Ordinary House of Love and Rosa Mundi (reprinted together as What This Earth Cost Us), as well as, in Italian, La Case ai Margini del Mundo.  He has edited several volumes.

Introduction by Luke Gibbons of Maynooth University, Ireland, Visiting Professor at NYU for Spring 2015.