This week’s guest poet at the White House in Limerick is Ciaran O’Driscoll.

Ciaran O’Driscoll was born in Callan, Co Kilkenny, in 1943, and presently lives in Limerick. He is a committee member of Cuisle, Limerick City’s International Poetry Festival, and a member of Aosdána.
He has published eight books of poetry including Moving On, Still There: New and Selected Poems (Dedalus Press, 2001), and Surreal Man (Pighog, 1996). In 2001, Liverpool University Press published his childhood memoir, A Runner Among Falling Leaves. A new collection is forthcoming in October 2009 from Three Spires (Cork), and Swirl, a CD which features him reading a number of poems, with musical accompaniment, will be available in early July.

Proceedings commence at 9pm as is the norm.