LAUNCH: Collected Poems of Gerard Fanning
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“Gerard Fanning produced poems that are among the best written anywhere in the past half-century.” – Colm Tóibín
Join us for the launch of the Collected Poems of Gerard Fanning on Sunday 3 November at 2 pm. Gerard Smyth will host this celebration of the late Gerard Fanning’s remarkable body of work – collected together for the first time in this beautiful book from Wake Forest University Press.
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ABOUT THE POET:
Gerard Fanning was born in Dublin in 1952. He published three original collections during his lifetime: Easter Snow (1992), Working for the Government (1999), and Water & Power (2004). There was also a chapbook entitled Canower Sound (2003) and a selection of previously uncollected poems in Hombre: New and Selected Poems (2011). Fanning’s poems were also included in The Wake Forest Series of Irish Poetry Volume III (2013), edited by Conor O’Callaghan. Fanning was awarded the inaugural Brendan Behan Award and the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature in 1993, as well as two major literature bursaries from the Arts Council of Ireland. His poems have also been adapted by the composer Ian Wilson for his Harbouring Suite (2008). Gerard Fanning was preparing his fourth collection when he died on October 18th, 2017, aged sixty-five.
