This Wednesday, 17th June 2009, sees Catherine Walsh as guest poet at the weekly White House Poetry Revival session in Limerick. The event starts at 9.00pm.

Catherine Walsh was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1964. Having lived in Barcelona and in Eastbourne, England, she is now back in Ireland, living in Limerick. She has published and read and her work is taught at Third Level widely in Ireland, the U.K. and the U.S. She co-edits hardPressed Poetry and the Journal with Billy Mills. Her books include Macula (Red Wheelbarrow Press, Dublin: 1986); The Ca Pater Pillar Thing and More Besides (hardPressed Poetry, Dublin, 1986), Making Tents (hardPressed Poetry, Dublin, 1987), Short Stories (North & South, Twickenham and Wakefield, 1989), Pitch (Pig Press, Durham, 1994), Idir Eatortha & Making Tents (Invisible Books, London, 1996); City West (Shearsman, Exeter, 2005) and from Optic Verve (Longhouse, Vermont 2006). Her work is included in No Soy Tu Musa (Ediciones Torremozas, Madrid, 2008), a bilingual Spanish/English anthology of Irish women poets. Her next book, Optic Verve: A Commentary, is forthcoming from Shearsman.

Unfortunately, I will miss Catherine’s reading as I’m working Wednesday night until 10pm. This is a great pity as I knew Catherine Walsh slightly in the mid-1980s through Mael Coll Rua. I remember her The Ca Pater Pillar Thing very well as the poetry made an impression. Billy Mills and Catherine were kind enough to allow me stay in their Barcelona apartment for a few days in the spring of 1988 while I looked for work. My search proved frustratingly unsuccessful and I moved south to Seville where I ultimately ended up living.