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What a time to be alive - poetry reading Newry Arts Festival
Thu 26 Mar
|The Bookshelf
Maureen Boyle, Deirdre Cartmill and Csilla Toldy will read from their latest collections
Time & Location
26 Mar 2026, 20:00 – 22:00
The Bookshelf, 2 Monaghan St, Newry BT35 6AA, UK
About the event
What a Time to Be Alive - Poetry Reading by Three Arlen House Women Poets
In a time when many of us are exhausted and terrified by the news cycle, come and hear three women poets, all published by Arlen House, Dublin, concerned with ways of finding meaning in this difficult world sometimes through faith, sometimes by reanimating women who have gone before, sometimes by bringing our focus from the macro to the micro, sometimes by simply finding the miraculous in the every day.
Maureen Boyle’s second full collection, ‘The Last Spring of the World’ (2022) addresses questions about survival, both personal and planetary and tells the stories of others who have lived lives in extremis.