A selection of works by Galway city poet Rita Ann Higgins will be presented at a celebratory reading in the Town Hall Theatre on March 20.
Fellow writers Elaine Feeney, Mary O’Malley, Eva Bourke, Michael Gorman, and Sarah Clancy will present the works. There will be a public interview with Vincent Woods.
“The forthcoming celebratory event in the Town Hall makes me believe there is still great warmth and goodwill out there. To be held in such high esteem in my own town by poets and other artists whose work I have admired and respected for years is deeply humbling,” says Higgins. “I am overwhelmed with love and gratitude to all concerned.”
Higgins has written both plays and screenplays, and in 2021 she received The Living Poets Society Award. She was shortlisted for The Ireland Professor of Poetry in 2022. Higgins is a member of Aosdána.
Start time TBC. Tickets €10 from www.tht.ie
