Poetry & Creative Writing Workshop

Transition Year group Yeats will meet local poet Stephen James Smith at a poetry and creative writing workshop in Ballyroan Library next Tuesday October 5th. The workshop is part of the Rhyme and Rhythm Children’s Book Festival organised by South Dublin County Council.

Stephen is currently the Cúirt Literary Festival Grand Slam Poetry Champion ’09. His first book Pretending to be Happy? is due to be published in the coming months.

We hope that students will enjoy, and benefit from, the workshop.

Creative Writing Workshop

Great thanks are due to poet Dave Lordan who visited Coláiste Éanna last Monday. Sixth year students enjoyed the creative workshop and poetry readings.

Dave kindly donated a copy of his collection of poetry The Boy in the Ring to the school library.

We wish Dave every success as his new monologue Jo Bangles opens in the Mill Theatre in Dundrum.

Poet Dave Lordan to visit Coláiste Éanna

Thanks to Mr O’ Gorman, prizewinning poet Dave Lordan is to visit Coláiste Éanna on February 1st. He will talk with 6th year students about creative writing and poetry. ‘The Boy in the Ring‘ is Lordan’s debut collection, winning the 2008 Strong Award for the Best First Collection and shortlisted for the Irish Times Poetry Now Award 2008. The poems explore themes of violence, self-harm and survival.

Dave Lordan was born in Derby, England in 1975. He grew up in Clonakilty in West Cork. He took an M.A. in English Literature at University College Cork in 1998 and an M.Phil. in Creative Writing at Trinity College, Dublin in 2001. In 2005 he won the Patrick Kavanagh Award for poetry.