The Tom Quinlan Lecture in Poetry: Katharine Towers

The 2012 winner of the Heaney Prize is Rachel Boast, for her bookSidereal, a remarkable collection of lyric poems that meditate on unseen influences, fleeting insights, patterns of meaning and shapes of time.

Because Rachel Boast is unable to travel, the inaugural Quinlan Lecture will be delivered by 2011 Heaney Prize Winner Katharine Towers, whose book The Floating Man conducts musical themes against details of the everyday in a rich and varied collection.

Introduction by Professor John Waters, Clinical Professor of Irish Studies NYU and Director of Graduate Studies.