CAVA, THE popular Spanish restaurant on Dominick Street will be the setting for two poetry readings as part of this year’s Cúirt International Festival of Literature.
First up are two emerging Irish language writers - Scott de Buitléir and Caitríona Ní Chléirchín on Wednesday at 3pm.
De Buitléir is a 22-year-old writer, broadcaster and student from Clontarf. His poetry has been included in Blaiseadh Pinn, the 2008 collection of new literature as Gaeilge.
He presents a weekly programme on RTÉ Pulse digital radio and he also works for Raidió na Gaeltachta. He is currently working on a novel in English and he has performed at various literary festivals.
Caitríona Ní Chléirchín is a lecturer in Irish-language and literature in the School of Irish, Celtic Studies, Folklore and Linguistics at UCD.
She writes critical reviews and has been published in the Irish-language literary magazines, Comhar and Feasta. She is currently working on a PhD on the Irish-language poetry of Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill and Biddy Jenkinson.
The next event in Cava is entitled Wine and words with Enrique Juncosa and Enda Wyley and it takes place on Thursday April 22 at 6.15pm.
Juncosa was born in Palma de Mallorca in 1961. A distinguished art gallery director and curator of major exhibitions, he is also a much-admired poet.
Michael Smith, who has translated Juncosa’s work into English, said the Spaniard’s poetry reveals “a boundless curiosity about other people and places, an astonishingly broad interest in most of the major art forms, and an enthusiasm to experiment that matches the novelty of what he has encountered on his travels”.
Since 2003 Juncosa has been the director of the Irish Museum of Modern Art where he edits the journal Boulevard Magenta.
Dubliner Enda Wyley has published three collections of poems - Eating Baby Jesus (1993 ), Socrates In The Garden (1998 ), and Poems for Breakfast (2004 ). She won the inaugural Vincent Buckley Poetry Prize for her poetry and her work has been widely anthologised, broadcast, and translated. The Irish Times said her poetry “is intimate and celebratory... she celebrates love and poetry itself with tenderness and grace.”
Tickets are available from the Town Hall on 091 - 569777.
