Poet in Residence, Niamh Twomey, Presents
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Readings
Join us for an event presented by Belfast Book Festival’s Poet in Residence, Niamh Twomey.
The Residency, supported by The Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation, is an opportunity for an emergent voice to be recognised for their work and its promise.
Alongside time to write and time with mentor, Mícheál McCann, Niamh will also present a Festival event - please join them!
Niamh Twomey is a poet from Co. Clare and a current PhD student at Queen's University Belfast. Her work has been widely published in journals and anthologies such as Channel, Cyphers, Banshee and The London Magazine, among others. She was awarded first prize in the 2025 Maria Edgeworth Poetry Competition, the 2023 Desmond O’Grady Poetry Competition and the 2022 Trim Poetry Competition. She participated in the Poetry Ireland Introduction Series in 2024. Her work focuses on ecology and the environmental crisis.
The Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation aims to expand access to poetry and educational poetry materials, gathering outstanding poems from across places, eras, and traditions for audiences worldwide to enjoy. Click here to discover more about the Foundation.
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