Workshops & Readings
Posted on June 10th, 2008 by Katie
Launch June 1st 7pm Damer Hall, Stephen’s Green, Dublin
Rootling: New & Selected Poems
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This book draws on three previous collections, together with a whole collection of new poems, Rootling. Here Katie Donovan’s lively sensibility explores motherhood, with the birth of her two children: from the blues to the pleasures of breastfeeding, she charts the shock of birth and the delights of watching her babies develop. Enmeshed in the familial and domestic, the death of her father prompts her to shuttle back to scenes of her own rural childhood, as well as mourning the passing of a remarkable man. The end of the collection dwells on her partner’s courageous struggle with cancer.
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Katie Donovan teaches Creative Writing at IADT Dún Laoghaire as part of the English, Media and Culture Studies 4 year degree course. In 2009/10 for the first time her Creative Writing courses will be available as Flexible Learning options. There will be a 20 week evening course and also the option to take the course online. For more details check out www.iadt.ie
November 17th, 2009 at 1:58 pm
I am an Irish-American woman, who trains horses and writes code for a living. I’m also a poet, and a woman very much in love with a man who lives far from me. Last night I read “Yearn On” and my heart broke with the knowing and power in it, and that it says so well all those things I feel. From the first to the last, and it twisted the heart of me. I rarely read anything I am so very moved by that I say “I wish that was mine, that I’d said it this way”. Could not be better, and I honour you, Sister. Thank you.