Poetry Ipswich: Wednesday 18th October

Poetry Ipswich
Wednesday 18th October
Matthew Sweeney

County Library Lecture Hall
Old Foundry Road, Ipswich

DOORS OPEN 7.30
READING STARTS 8.00
£6.00 (£4.00 concessions)

POETS FROM THE FLOOR:
Members of the audience are invited to read their own poetry before the main
event.

Matthew Sweeney was born in County Donegal, Ireland in 1952 and lived for many
years in London. Recently has been spending time abroad, in Germany and Romania,
frequently returning to the UK and Ireland for readings and workshops. His work
is increasingly appearing in translation - across Europe and from Mexico to
Japan. Poetry Ipswich is pleased to welcome back Matthew for what promises to be
a great evening.

"Twenty five years' work finds Sweeney at fifty with a rich trove of memorable,
funny, alarming poems whose very readability at times disguises their
complexity. Here is a poet who has never allowed himself to be distracted - a
poet, too, whose work all those of us who think we know it well had better read
afresh." - Sean O'Brien, reviewing Sweeney's Selected Poems for Poetry London

"Funny, surreal, tender, fantastic, earthy..." - Helen Dunmore

"He is the true master of secret narratives... one of the best poets around." -
John Lucas