Sinead Morrisey's guest appearances

Sinead Morrisey

Trinity College

New Writing North

Tom Sleigh

Pat Barker

Sir Philip Sidney

Anne Stevenson

Anne Parmenter

Michael Munger

David Baker

Phil Collins

Kimiko Hahn

Leslie Jamison

Valeria Luiselli

Sloane Crosley

Josiah Ober

Barry Forshaw

Sarah Perry

OwlTail

Each year, our Durham Book Festival Laureate takes part in Durham Book Festival, works with young people in local schools and students at Durham University, and writes an original commission inspired by County Durham. Here Sinead Morrisey reads from her specially commisioned poem.

Each year, our Durham Book Festival Laureate takes part in Durham Book Festival, works with young people in local schools and students at Durham University, and writes an original commission inspired by County Durham. <br><br>Here Sinead Morrisey reads from her specially commisioned poem.

Sinéad Morrissey is the author of five collections of poetry, the last four of which have been shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Award. Her most recent, Parallax, won the coveted prize in 2013. Her work has received numerous accolades including the Patrick Kavanagh Award (of which she was the youngest ever winner), the Michael Hartnett Prize and the Irish Times/Poetry Now Award. In 2007 she took first prize in the National Poetry Competition with ‘Through the Square Window’, a haunting poem that contrasts an image of the dead gathering outside a window with that of a child sleeping peacefully indoors.Morrissey was born in Northern Ireland in 1972 and grew up in Belfast. Educated at Trinity College, Dublin, she has travelled widely and lived in Japan and New Zealand before returning to her birthplace in 1999. In 2002 she was appointed Writer in Residence at Queen’s University Belfast, and she is currently Reader in Creative Writing at the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry at Queen’s.

Sinéad Morrissey is the author of five collections of poetry, the last four of which have been shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Award. Her most recent, Parallax, won the coveted prize in 2013. Her work has received numerous accolades including the Patrick Kavanagh Award (of which she was the youngest ever winner), the Michael Hartnett Prize and the Irish Times/Poetry Now Award. In 2007 she took first prize in the National Poetry Competition with ‘Through the Square Window’, a haunting poem that contrasts an image of the dead gathering outside a window with that of a child sleeping peacefully indoors.<br><br>Morrissey was born in Northern Ireland in 1972 and grew up in Belfast. Educated at Trinity College, Dublin, she has travelled widely and lived in Japan and New Zealand before returning to her birthplace in 1999. In 2002 she was appointed Writer in Residence at Queen’s University Belfast, and she is currently Reader in Creative Writing at the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry at Queen’s.

AK Smith Reading Series: Sinead Morrisey