Birth pangs of a poet
THE Munster Literature Centre is hosting its first Cork Spring Poetry Festival from Feb 15-18. The centre has held spring literary festivals for over 15 years at which all genres of writing were celebrated. This year’s focus on poets from eight countries is an acknowledgment of the preference for poetry by past spring literary festival audiences.
The highlight of the festival will be the reading of the poem that won the Gregory O’Donoghue International Poetry Prize this year. The poem is New York-based Suji Kwock Kim’s Sonogram Song, a moving poem about the ultrasound scan of her son and his birth, against the odds.
