Review: Cork International Poetry Festival
The Cork International Poetry Festival — the biggest of its kind in the country — rolled into Leeside this week, bringing a host of local, national and international poets to venues across the city centre.
There was a tinge of regret about this year’s event, as John Montague, who had been scheduled to round off the festival tonight passed away last December, meaning the slot will now be filled with a tribute to the poet who taught at UCC from 1972 to 1988, where he found a receptive audience of young and eager poets who, under his influence, went on to become household names. A selection of those poets, alongside his daughters Oonagh and Sybil, will take to the stage at the Cork Arts Theatre to read from Second Childhood, the new collection Montague did not live to see published.
