Poetry reading with Kathleen McCracken and Catherine Graham

Performance Area | FREE

Don’t miss this rare opportunity to immerse yourself in the enchanting verses of two remarkable Canadian poets Kathleen McCracken and Catherine Graham.

Based in Belfast since the 1990s, Kathleen is the author of eight poetry collections, including Blue Light, Bay, and College. While Catherine Graham, who’s on a flying visit to Belfast, has just published Put Flowers Around Us and Pretend We’re Dead: New and Selected Poems.

Poets

Kathleen McCracken
Kathleen McCracken is a poet from Canada. She is the author of eight collections of poetry including Blue Light, Bay and College, shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award for Poetry, and a bilingual English/Portuguese edition entitled Double Self Portrait with Mirror: New and Selected Poems. She was a finalist for the WB Yeats Society of New York Poetry Competition, the Montreal International Prize for Poetry, The Walrus Poetry Prize, and the CBC Poetry Prize. In 2019 she won the Seamus Heaney Award for New Writing. From 1992-2022 Kathleen was Lecturer in Creative Writing and Contemporary Literature at Ulster University, Northern Ireland.

Catherine Graham
Catherine Graham is a poet and novelist from Toronto, Ontario. Catherine Graham’s hybrid memoir Æther: An Out-of-Body Lyric was a finalist for the Toronto Book Award, Trillium Book Award and won the CAA’s Fred Kerner Book Award. The Celery Forest was named a CBC Best Book of the Year. Her debut novel Quarry won an IPPY Gold Medal for Fiction and was a finalist for the Sarton Women’s Book Award. She leads the Toronto International Festival of Authors’ Book Club, co-hosts The Hummingbird Podcast and teaches creative writing at the University of Toronto. Put Flowers Around Us and Pretend We’re Dead: New and Selected Poems appears this spring.