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Cardiff University
First Readings

Glanfa, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff
Tuesday 26 February 2008, 7.00pm

Cardiff University presents a first reading in Wales for Irish writer Kerry Hardie.  The Irish Times said of her latest poetry collection, The Silence Came Close: “her sharply observant, intimate persona engages us with direct, economical language and understated lyrical rhythms. . . . readers become fascinated companions as scenes and aperçus unfold, quietly, fatefully”.

Students on the Creative Writing MA will also read some of their work.

Free entry
For more information contact
Academi: 029 2047 2266 or post@academi.org

Kerry Hardie was born in 1951 and lives in Co. Kilkenny. She has published four collections of poetry and two novels. She has been awarded many prizes and commendations, including the National Poetry Prize [Ireland], The Patrick and Kathleen Kavanagh Award, The Lawrence O’Shaughnessy Award for Poetry, and the Michael Hartnett Award. She has been awarded The James Joyce Travel Scholarship to Australia and China, and she has been Writer in Residence at the Centra d’Art i Natura in Catalona and at the Irish Cultural Centre in Paris. Kerry Hardie grew up in Northern Ireland and studied English at York University, England. She has worked for the BBC and the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, and has received the Friends Provident National Poetry Prize.