POETRY LAUNCH: Mark Granier
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Join us at 2pm on Sunday 13th April to celebrate the launch of Mark Granier’s new poetry collection, Everything You Always Wanted To Know, from Salmon Poetry. Niall MacMonagle will be launching the collection and all are welcome to this afternoon of poetry.
Mark Roper writes:
Starting on a pavement and ending on a road, Mark Granier’s welcome new collection stays on its feet as it celebrates the strange and sometimes terrifying miracle of being alive. From snow’s ‘glitter-fractals of silence’ to foxes gnawing ‘at the Abbot’s spine’, we trail ‘through each other like rain’. The great wonder to be found in these poems is memorably expressed as ‘something like/ speechlessness/fully dressed.’
About the Author:
MARK GRANIER is a Dublin-based writer and photographer. His previous collections are Haunt (Salmon Poetry, 2015), Fade Street (Salt, 2010), The Sky Road (Salmon, 2007) and Airborne (Salmon, 2001). Prizes and awards include a number of Arts Council bursaries, The Vincent Buckley Poetry Prize and Patrick and Katherine Kavanagh Fellowships in 2011 and 2017.
His photographs have appeared in The Guardian/ Observer magazine and have been exhibited in a number of group shows, including the Oxo Gallery in London, the Municipal Gallery in The Lexicon, Dún Laoghaire and the RHA annual exhibition. He has done cover work for various publishers, including Faber & Faber, Dedalus, The O’Brien Press and Salmon. Irish Pages featured a portfolio of his photographs in 2011.
