The Limerick Writers’ Centre has run April is Poetry Month in Limerick since 2013. Our aim is to create poetry events during April involving public participation, celebrating poetry’s vital place in our culture. We host a number of poetry events ourselves but this is also a cooperative festival of poetry taking in all the poetry events happening in the city and county for the month of April.

April is Poetry Month in Limerick 2022 Programme

Fri 1st April –

Lunchtime lecture at Limerick City Library, Barrow House, Michael St., Limerick  by Ollamh/Poet Laureate Kieran Beville on the Transformational Power of Confessional Poetry. 1pm -1.45pm

Sun 3^rd April –

Book Launch: Kieran Beville will launch her fourth poetry collection ‘A Place Apart’ from Revival Press  at Limerick City Gallery of Art, Pery Square, Limerick. Launch by poet Anton Floyd.  2.30pm

Wed 6^th April

‘On the Nail’ Literary Gathering with Tim Cunningham, Richard W Halperin and AM Cousins at The  People’s Museum of Limerick, Pery Square, Limerick. 7pm

Thurs 7^th April –

Lime Square Poets present poet MK Chavez plus open-mic.  7.45pm on Zoom. Details www.limesquarepoets.com

Fri 8th April –

Lunchtime lecture at Limerick City Library, Barrow House, Michael St., Limerick  by poet Mícheál O hAodha on the poetry of Sean O Riordan. 1pm -1.45pm

Sat 9^th April 2022 –

‘I Am In Need of Music’ – a Music inspired  Creative Writing Workshop with Jessica Brown at Central Buildings, 51 O’Connell St, Limerick. 10am to 1pm.

Motifs, cadence, crescendos, emotions, memories, and the imaginary; a beautiful tradition exists between music and writing.  This creative writing session will offer a series of prose and poetry prompts exploring the experiences of music put to words.

Workshop fee: €20.00 booking essential. Email: limerickwriterscentre@gmail.com Tel 087 2996409

Sun 10th April –

Tour guide and author Joe Colman inaugurates the Limerick Literary Trail. This 2 hour walk through the city’s literary landmarks starts from Merchants Quay. Free but booking advisable. 2.30pm

 Wed 13^th April

Limerick Writers’ Centre present The Desmond O’Grady Memorial Reading with Adam Wyeth, Kieran Beville and Vivienne McKechnie plus the result of the Desmond O’Grady International Poetry Competition will be announced. The People’s Museum of Limerick, Pery Sq., Limerick. 7pm.

Thurs 14^th April

Lime Square Poets present poet Kevin Higgins plus open-mic . 7.45pm on Zoom. Details www.limesquarepoets.com

Sat 16^th  April

‘Pomes Pennyeach’ a lunchtime celebration for ‘Ulysees100’, with a  reading of poems from James Joyce ‘s ‘Chamber Music’ and ‘Pomes Pennyeach’, various readers. Quay Books, Sarsfield St., Limerick. 1pm

Wed 20^th April

The White House Poetry Revival present poet John Liddy plus open-mic. – includes a tribute to the late Limerick poet Mark Whelan. MC Kieran Beville. The White House Bar, 52 O’Connell  St., Limerick. 7pm

Thurs 21^st April 

Lime Square Poets present poet Maeve McKenna plus open-mic.  7.45pm on Zoom. Details www.limesquarepoets.com

Limerick Writers’ Centre present ‘In The Record Room Sessions’ with singer/songwriter Sarah McQuaid. The Record Room @ The Commercial Bar, 46-47 Catherine St, Limerick, V94 T2V3. 9pm

Fri 22^nd April –

Lunchtime lecture on Poetry, Symbolism and the Sea at Limerick City Library, Barrow House, Michael St., Limerick, by poet Fiona Clarke Echlin. 1pm – 1.45pm

Sat 23^rd April

Reading at Quay Books, Sarsfield Street, Limerick for UNESCO World Book Day. 1pm.

Book Launch: Gníomh Úrnua/A New Deed by an tAthair Micheál de Liostún, poet and priest! A recollection of his life and work. St Munchin’s College, Corbally, Limerick. Time TBC.

Sun 24^th April

Book Launch: Imelda Maguire will launch her second poetry collection from Revival Press  Forty Eight Fragments at Limerick City Gallery of Art, Pery Square, Limerick. 2.30pm

Wed  27^th April

The Poetry Circle present poets Eoin Devereux, Emily Cullen and Michael Durack. Sexton’s Bar, Henry Street, Limerick. 7pm

Thurs 28^th April

Lime Square Poets present poet Emily Cullen plus open-mic.  7.45pm on Zoom. Details www.limesquarepoets.com

Thurs 28^th April (Poetry Day Ireland)

Limerick Writers’ Centre in association with Poetry Day Ireland present the launch of The Limerick Broadsheet. It’s 100 years since TS Eliot published his poem The Wasteland.  ‘April Is The Cruellest Month’ is a broadsheet curated by Limerick writer Eoin Devereux and features work by Donal Ryan, Denise Chila, Emily Cullen, Kerrie O’Brien, Wilzee, John Liddy, Martin Dyar, Jo Slade, Imelda Maguire, Kieran Beville and Eoin Devereux.  The Atrium Area, University Concert Hall Building UL. 1pm

Fri 29^th April

Lunchtime lecture at Limerick City Library, Barrow House, Michael St., Limerick with Dr Arthur Broomfield. Dr Broomfield’s approach to Surrealism will focus on the poetry and thought of Andre Breton, the philosophy of Jacques Derrida and aspects of quantum physics. He will argue that such an approach may play a significant role in 21st century poetry. 1pm

Fri 29^th April

Limerick Writers’ Centre present the Bard of Thomond Celebration with Pat Power, Mae Leonard, Christy Power with music from Mick Lacey, Phila Grace and friends. Bake House 22 ‘The Marquee’ Nicholas Street, Limerick. 7pm.

Sat 30th April                    

Tour guide and author Joe Colman inaugurates the Limerick Literary Trail. This 2 hour walk through the city’s literary landmarks starts from Merchants Quay. Free but booking advisable. 2.30pm