‘Night Sky’ Poetry Workshop with Anne Tannam at the Fingal Poetry Festival 2022

  • Location: Online via Zoom
  • Date and Time: Sat 17 September 2022, 11 am – 1 pm
  • Language: English
  • Tickets (on Eventbrite): €20 (€18 unwaged / low income*)

*Fingal Poetry Festival aims to be as inclusive as possible and to provide access to our events to all. There are many FREE events during the Festival. If you are on a low income or unwaged, please avail of the reduced ticket rate for ticketed events.

Secure your space now on Eventbrite (booking fees apply). Online booking ends 36 hours before the event starts. – The workshop leader will contact you by email with the Zoom link – please check your spam folder!

A dynamic and interactive ONLINE workshop that will explore through poetry our intimate connection with stars and the night sky.  Participants will come away with first drafts of poems, and hopefully, stars in their eyes!  All levels of experience welcome.

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Anne Tannam

Anne Tannam is the author of three poetry collections, ‘Take This Life (Wordonthestreet 2011), ‘Tides Shifting Across My Sitting Room Floor’ (Salmon Poetry 2017) and the latest ‘Twenty-six Letters of a new Alphabet’ also with Salmon Poetry, in 2021.

Anne’s work has been featured on national radio and press and forms part of UCD’s Irish Poetry Reading Archive. Also, a spoken word poet, Anne has performed at home and abroad at events such as Electric Picnic, Kosovo International Poetry Festival and Berlin’s Craw Festival. Anne was writer-in residence is Chennai Mathematical Institute in 2016 and in 2020 was poet-in-residence for the Trim Poetry Festival.

Anne works as a creative coach, supporting writers in Ireland and across the world to build and sustain flourishing writing practices.

For more on Anne’s poetry, visit www.annetannampoetry.ie.

For more on Anne’s coaching and facilitating, visit www.creativecoaching.ie

'Night Sky' Poetry Workshop (Anne Tannam), Fingal Poetry Festival 2022 image

Secure your space now on Eventbrite (booking fees apply). Online booking ends 36 hours before the event starts. – The workshop leader will contact you by email with the Zoom link – please check your spam folder!

Support for the 2022 festival by the Arts Council, Fingal County Council, Fingal Libraries, Foras na Gaeilge, RTÉ: Supporting The Arts, Leabhair Pháistí Éireann, Laureate na nÓg and Poetry Ireland is gratefully acknowledged.
The 2022 Fingal Poetry Prize was sponsored by DHL.
An Fiach Dubh, the Irish language poetry prize, was sponsored by Progressive Credit Union.
Raven illustrations, poster and brochure design: Matthew Kelly