Poetry, fiction and the spoken word all featured in events at the recent Electric Picnic festival in Laois. Speakers included Roddy Doyle, Anne Enright and Hugo Hamilton. There were readings of works by Wilde, Kavanagh, Beckett, Myles na gCopaleen, Sean O’Casey and Mary Lavin and the 30th anniversary of poetry Ireland was marked by poetry performances from John Corless, Kevin Higgins and Máighréad Medbh.
Friday 5 September 2008
Literary Picnic
Poetry, fiction and the spoken word all featured in events at the recent Electric Picnic festival in Laois. Speakers included Roddy Doyle, Anne Enright and Hugo Hamilton. There were readings of works by Wilde, Kavanagh, Beckett, Myles na gCopaleen, Sean O’Casey and Mary Lavin and the 30th anniversary of poetry Ireland was marked by poetry performances from John Corless, Kevin Higgins and Máighréad Medbh.
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