Below is our Poetry Summer School 2023 programme. This can give you an idea of what to expect throughout the week.

Sun 25 Jun: Welcome
2..00pm onwards: Check-in - Queen’s Elms BT9, 78 Malone Rd
5.00-7.00pm-ish: Welcome Drinks at The Woodworkers, 20-22 Bradbury Place (optional / drop-in)

Mon 26 Jun: Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s
10.00-10.30: Breakfast and Welcome with Nick Laird and tutors
10.30-1.00: WORKSHOP DAY 1
- Lunch in the Seminar Room -
2.00-4.00pm: WORKSHOP DAY 1
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7.00pm: Seamus Heaney First Collection Poetry Prize 2023 Award Night, Crescent Arts Centre

Tue 27 Jun: Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s
10.00-11.00: Breakfast Seminar with Leontia Flynn: “Accuracy, Spontaneity, Mystery” - learning from Elizabeth Bishop
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11.30-1.30: WORKSHOP DAY 2
- Lunch in the Seminar Room -
2.30-4.30pm: WORKSHOP DAY 2
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7.00pm: The Art of Song - a concert by SHC Fellow Conor Mitchell, School of Music at Queen’s

Wed 28 Jun: Ulster Museum
10.00-11.30: Breakfast Seminar with Andy Eaton: Revising Toward Strangeness -
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12.00-1.30: Ekphrasis Workshop with Eva Isherwood-Wallace
- Lunch in the Ulster Museum -
2.00-4.00pm: Independent writing and 1-1s
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FREE EVENING

Thu 29 Jun: Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s
10.00-11.00: Breakfast Seminar with Tess Taylor: Staging the Poem
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11.30-1.2.30: Workshop with Tess Taylor: Staging the Poem
- Lunch in the Seminar Room -
2.00-4.00pm: Independent writing and 1-1s
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6.30pm: Free entry to the Heaney exhibition at the Seamus Heaney HomePlace

7.30pm: Celebrating Up late, the new collection by Nick Laird

Fri 30 Jun: Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s
10.00-11.00: Breakfast Seminar with Stephen Sexton: ‘Self-forgetful or’
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11.30-1.00: Independent writing and 1-1s
- Lunch in the Seminar Room -
2.00-4.00pm: Independent writing and 1-1s
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5.00pm: Summer School Showcase, in Accidental Theatre