The Future Always Makes Me So Thirsty
New Poets from the North of Ireland
Edited by Sinéad Morrissey and Stephen Connolly
Published: 5 May 2016
Northern Ireland is rightly celebrated the world over for its rich poetic heritage and vibrant poetry culture – Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley, Mebdh McGuckian, Paul Muldoon, Leonita Flynn and Sinéad Morrissey are just a few of the poets from the North who have changed the map of contemporary poetry.
Taking its cue from Frank Ormsby’s Poets from the North of Ireland (1979), The Future Always Makes Me So Thirsty gathers together the best of the new generation that has emerged in Northern Ireland over the last decade, from more established poets such as Miriam Gamble, Caoilinn Hughes and Stephen Sexton to new voices such as Padraig Regan, Manuela Moser and Emma Must.
The Future Always Makes Me So Thirsty is a landmark anthology. Exciting, striking and timely, it announces a generation that is confidently poised to make the future its own.
‘The Future Always Makes Me So Thirsty bucks the dominant publication trend of a long look back by focusing on the most recent of timeframes, in the belief that what is happening here, just now, is so special that it deserves a spotlight of its own.’
Sinéad Morrissey and Stephen Connolly
Editors:
Sinéad Morrissey is Professor of Creative Writing and assistant director of the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry in Belfast. She is the author of five collections of poetry:There Was Fire in Vancouver(1996),Between Here and There(2002),The State of the Prisons(2005),Through the Square Window(2009) andParallax (2013). Her awards include the Patrick Kavanagh Award, an Eric Gregory Award, first prize in the UK National Poetry Competition (2007) and a Lannan Literary Fellowship.Parallaxwas shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection and was the winner of both the T.S. Eliot Prize and theIrish TimesPoetry Prize in 2013.
Stephen Connolly was born in Belfast in 1989 and was educated at Queen’s University, Belfast. His poems have been published inPoetry,Poetry Ireland ReviewandThe Irish Review. He has taught at the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry in Belfast and runs The Lifeboat reading series and magazine.
Featured poets:
Padraig Regan Eoghan Walls
Paula Cunningham Michael McKimm
Caoilinn Hughes Andy Eaton
Scott McKendry Manuela Moser
Stephen Sexton Paul Maddern
Miriam Gamble Erin Halliday
Kiera McGarry Matt Kirkham
Adam Crothers Stephen Connolly
Maureen Boyle Emma Must
For further information, to request an interview with the editors and/or to request a review copy of The Future Always Makes Me So Thirsty please contact:
Jim Meredith, Blackstaff Press, 4D Weavers Court, Linfield Road, Belfast, BT12 5GH
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