ARTS Poetry reading at The Creel

Two poets, one reading


The Creel Restaurant at The Quay, Westport, will host a poetry reading with two award-winning poets, American writer Lisa C Taylor and Irish writer Geraldine Mills, this Thursday, March 24, at 8pm. The two poets will read from their collaborative work, ‘The Other Side of Longing’.
Geraldine Mills is the author of two published collections of short fiction and four collections of poetry, including Toil the Dark Harvest (2004) and an Urgency of Stars (2009). Her writing has earned her the OKI Award, the Moore Medallion, the RTÉ/Penguin Short Story Competition, and a Patrick and Katherine Kavanagh Fellowship. She was named the Millennium winner of the Hennessy/Sunday Tribune New Irish Writer Award.
Lisa C Taylor is the author of three collections of poetry, most recently Talking to Trees which was nominated for the LL Winship PEN New England Award. Her poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. She has been published in numerous journals and anthologies. She teaches Creative Writing at the Eastern Connecticut State University and also works as a writer-in-residence in schools.
Geraldine and Lisa struck up a friendship at the Cape Cod Writers’ Conference in 2008. The following year, Lisa was awarded a Surdna Arts Teaching Fellowship to travel to Ireland and work with Geraldine. In a little cottage in Connemara, they wrote and forged a link between their lives. In October of 2009, Geraldine travelled to Connecticut to teach workshops, read and experience Lisa’s landscape. They explored themes of culture, folklore, flora and fauna through a series of poems of call and response, weaving in and out of their own internal and external landscape. The result is the co-authored book.
For more information on the poetry reading, call 098 26174 or email trish@thecreel.ie.