{"id":21223,"date":"2024-11-08T16:48:43","date_gmt":"2024-11-08T16:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/?page_id=21223"},"modified":"2025-02-04T12:32:16","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T12:32:16","slug":"guests-106-dec-24-jan-25","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/guest-poets\/guests-106-dec-24-jan-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Guests> (106) Dec 24\/Jan 25"},"content":{"rendered":"
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9th December<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

\u00d3 Bh\u00e9al<\/strong><\/font>\u2019s <\/font>End of Year Event<\/strong><\/font> features<\/font><\/p>\n

Martina Evans<\/strong>
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You can listen to Martina’s reading here<\/a>.<\/center>
\n<\/span>Martina Evans<\/strong> is an Irish poet, novelist and teacher. She grew up in County Cork in a country pub, shop and petrol station and is the youngest of ten children. She is the author of thirteen books of poetry and prose. American Mules<\/em> (Carcanet, 2021) won the Pigott Poetry Prize in 2022. The Coming Thing<\/em> was published by Carcanet in 2023 and is shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry. <\/p>\n

She has been an associate lecturer in Creative Writing at Birkbeck University and University of East London and a Creative Writing tutor at the City Literary Institute, Covent Garden, London for many years. Currently she is Books Critic for the Irish Times<\/em>.
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You can watch a video of the event here<\/font><\/b>
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