Peter Fallon, Irish Poet Reading in Kansas
Peter Fallon, the Irish Poet and celebrated publisher is reading from his works in the Mabee Theatre at Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas on Tuesday, 24 March 2009 at 7:30pm.
The night before, Monday March 23, 2009, Fallon is reading at Ottawa University at 7:30pm in the Larry Peters Auditorium in the Administration Building, 1001 S. Cedar Street, Ottawa, Kansas.
Fallon is one of Ireland’s foremost poets and founder of The Gallery Press, Ireland’s pre-eminent literary publishing house, in 1970. He has edited and published more than 400 books of poems and plays by the country’s finest authors, including Seamus Heaney, Brian Friel, and Derek Mahon. With Derek Mahon, he edited the best-selling “Penguin Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry” (1990)
Peter Fallon’s own collections of poems include “The Speaking Stones”(1978), “Winter Work” (1983), “The News and Weather” (1987), “Eye to Eye” (1992) and “The Deerfield Series: Strength of Heart” (1997). His selected poems, “News of the World,” was published in 1993. The collection of poems, “The Company of Horses,” appeared in September 2007.
Peter Fallon’s poetry confirms Keats’s notion that an intelligence becomes a soul through being schooled in a world of pains and troubles. His poems are soul music of this sort, yet they also belong to a particular place and a particular speech: his way of saying has become a way of seeing, eye to eye with griefs and crises he is emotionally well able for. I admire his singular combination of gravity, obliquity, and tenderness — Seamus Heaney
Fallon received the 1993 O’Shaughnessy Poetry Award from the Irish American Cultural Institute. He has been Poet in Residence at Deerfield Academy in Massachusetts and, in the Spring of 2000 he was the inaugural Heimbold Professor of Irish Studies at Villanova University, PA, which conferred on him an Honorary Doctorate.
You can learn more about Peter Fallon, and purchase his books, from the website of his publishing company The Gallery Press.
These events are posted on the Kansas City Irish events calendar.
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