Renowned writer Anne Enright will launch Monica Corish’s poetry collection “A Dying Language” in the Abbey Centre, Ballyshannon on Saturday November 5th at 7 p.m. A Dying Language is published by the Irish Hospice Foundation. 50% of profits from book sales will go to the Northwest Hospice. The book launch will take place as part of the Allingham Festival, November 3 – 6, full programme details at www.allinghamfestival.com.

This is the final event of a six-month long book tour which included readings at the Yeats International Summer School, the Bailieborough Poetry Festival, and the launch of Carers Week in Dublin. Speaking at the Yeats Summer School, Vincent Woods said: “I imagine there isn’t a family in Ireland that hasn’t experienced something of what Monica Corish captures so acutely in these poems… This poetry of grief is also a kind of love poetry. These poems are a blessing of sorts – making a living language, striking a flame of light out of shadow and sorrow.”

A Dying Language is available online from www.monicacorish.ie, and from Barnes & Noble and Amazon; also from Liber Books, Sligo; The Reading Room, Carrick on Shannon;  A Novel Idea, Ballyshannon; The Winding Stair, Dublin; and Dingle Bookshop.

• Brian Leyden will launch A Dying Language tomorrow, Friday, October 21 at 6:15 pm in The Reading Room, Carrick on Shannon;
• Anne Enright will launch the book at The Abbey Centre, Ballyshannon, on Saturday, November 5 at 7 pm, as part of the Allingham Festival

Thanks to friend and Manorhamilton artist Rachel Webb for the videos, taken at the Five Glens Festival…

Looking forward to reading from A Dying Language at The Reading Room, Carrick on Shannon on Friday, October 21 6:15 p.m. Brian Leyden will introduce the event, and all are welcome to attend.

There’s plenty of time to come to the reading, and then go to the Leonard Cohen Tribute at The Dock – that’s what I plan to do!

Brian and I will also participate in a panel discussion hosted by Words Ireland, alongside Michael Harding and Gerry Boland, on Saturday, October 22. The event will take place in Ballinamore Library from 2 to 4 p.m. This event, the first in a series of nationwide public meetings, is aimed at writers who earn or aspire to earn some or all of their income from writing. The event is free, but participants must register in advance through www.eventbrite.ie – only a few places left.

You are warmly invited to the launch of A Dying Language at the Yeats International Summer School in Sligo on Thursday, 28 July at 8:00 pm. Broadcaster and poet Vincent Woods will launch the collection in The Methodist Hall, Wine Street. Fifty percent of profits from book sales will be donated to the North West Hospice.

Poet Jane Clarke will launch A Dying Language at the excellent  Winding Stair Bookshop on Tuesday, June 14 at 6:30 p.m. Orla Keegan of the Hospice Foundation will also speak at the event. All are welcome to attend.

The Dublin launch coincides with the 30th anniversary celebrations of the Hospice Foundation, and with Carers Week 2016 – I will also read from the collection at the Launch of Carers Week on June 13, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m.

A Dying Language, inspired primarily by the experience of nursing my mother Teresa when she was dying of cancer, is published by the Hospice Foundation. To read more about the book, read this interview, or click here.

50% of profits from book saleswill go to the Irish Hospice Foundation. For details of launches in Sligo, Manorhamilton, Belfast and elsewhere, click here