2022 Annual Tom Quinlan Lecture.

This year will feature Poetryfest’s curator, Professor Nick Laird, who will read from his own work and introduce Victoria Kennefick, the 2022 Seamus Heaney Prize Winner. Kennefick won the prize for her first book, Eat Or We Both Starve, published by Carcanet (2021). This event is presented in cooperation with the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen's University Belfast, where Laird is the Seamus Heaney Professor of Poetry, and the Irish Arts Center in New York City.