Wed 6th April 2022 7.00pm

The People’s Museum of Limerick, Pery Sq., Limerick.

Admission Free – Donations Accepted

Tim Cunningham was born in Limerick and educated at C.B.S., Limerick, and
Birkbeck College, London. He has worked mainly in education, in Dublin, Wiltshire, London, Delaware and Essex. Recently returned to Ireland, he lives in Westport, County Mayo.

In 2012, A.M. Cousins enrolled on the MA (Creative Writing) course in UCD as a mature student. While striving to crack the code of the perfect short story, she was ambushed by poetry and has been held in its thrall ever since. Her poems have appeared in literary publications including The Stinging Fly, Poetry Ireland Review, NIW and Aesthetica. Her work was highly commended in the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Competition 2015, 2016 and 2019; her poem ‘Not my Michael Furey’ won the FISH poetry prize in 2019. She also writes memoir and local history essays and is a regular contributor to RTÉ Radio 1’s Sunday Miscellany. Anne is married to Brendan McCarry, they have two daughters and a growing band of grandchildren.

Richard W. Halperin has Irish/U.S. dual nationality and lives in Paris. He has published four collections via Salmon Poetry, Cliffs of Moher. The most recent is Catch Me While You Have the Light, 2018. In complement, he has published sixteen shorter collections via Lapwing Publications, Belfast. The most recent is A Ballet for Martha, 2022. In Spring 2023, Salmon is to bring out Selected &
New Poems, drawn from both Salmon and Lapwing works. On 6 April 2022, Mr Halperin will give his first poetry reading in over two years: a joint reading at The People’s Museum, Limerick, in connection with Limerick: April Is Poetry Month.