Listowel Writers' Week Fringe

Waiting for Simon Armitage to start his reading. Am completely ignorant of his work so looking forward to it.

I walked into the Gents at the Listowel Arms only to be greeted by Dino Martino  crooning “That’s amore” the very same as when I last spent. Euro cent here this time last year. Plus ça change!

Kilrush is shrouded in mist as we ready to leave for the ferry.

I’m glad to say that I’ll be heading over to Listowel tomorrow for the day. My Creative Writing students at West Clare VTOS enjoyed last year’s visit so much that they insisted in going again this year! Though, it’ll be a new batch this year.

We’ll be catching the Shannon Ferry from Killimer to Tarbert and driving to Listowel.

I’m hoping to catch up with a few familiar faces from previous years such as poets Teri Murray and Pauline Fayne, as well as John McGrath (who was guest poet at the last Clare Three-Legged Stool Poets‘ reading of the season in Glór last month) and Michael Gallagher.

No doubt I will also bump into some unexpected faces! Perhaps yours will be one dear reader!

The official programme for the 41st Writers’ Week was available on theWriters’ Week website  as a pdf document.