Poet and editor Chris Agee will read a selection of his works.  Chris is editor of Irish Pages, one of Ireland’s leading journals on contemporary writing and will be discussing New Irish Writing.

Chris’s poems have been described as outstanding, mysterious, beautiful and deserving of an audience.

CHRIS AGEE was born in 1956 in San Francisco and grew up in Massachusetts, New York and Rhode Island. He attended Harvard University, where he studied with the poet and translator Robert Fitzgerald. Since 1979 has lived in Ireland.

He is the author of two books of poems, In The New Hampshire Woods (The Dedalus Press, 1992) and First Light (The Dedalus Press, 2003). He is also editor of Scar on the Stone: Contemporary Poetry from Bosnia (Bloodaxe Books, 1998, a Poetry Book Society Recommendation) and Unfinished Ireland: Essays on Hubert Butler (Irish Pages, 2003). He teaches at The Open University in Ireland and edits Irish Pages, a journal of contemporary writing based at The Linen Hall Library, Belfast. In the spring of 2003, he was an International Writing Fellow at the William Joiner Center for the Study of War and Social Consequences, University of Massachusetts, Boston. He reviews for The Irish Times and is currently completing a new collection of poems, Next to Nothing.