12th - 15th October 2011

The 16th Cuisle Limerick City International Poetry Festival will take place from Wednesday 12th to Saturday 15th, with lunchtime and evening readings by international, national and local poets, as well as a varied programme for schools and a Young Poet of the Year Award.

This year’s festival includes performances by British Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy and the hugely popular Paul Durcan; Catalan poet Joan Margarit; a night of Slovenian poetry with Iztok Osojnik and others; Dubliner Paula Meehan and Mary O’Malley from Galway; Lee Harwood and Clare Best from Sussex; Limerick poet Mark Whelan reading from his new book Brighton Suite.

There will be discussions, socializing and crack, open mic sessions, book launches, including The Stony Thursday Book edited this year by Mary Coll, and the much-loved Cuisle Poetry Slam.

The Cuisle School's programme provides an opportunity for students to hear and meet with poets, who thisyear include leading Irish Poets and visiting International poets.

If you’re within a pigeon’s flight of Limerick, or need some poetry in your life, pay us a visit for Cuisle.