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MAIRTÍN CRAWFORD AWARD
& THE LAUNCH OF NO ENEMY
BUT TIME
THE POETRY OF MAIRTÍN CRAWFORD & NAOMI FOYLE
This momentous event will reveal the winner of the first
ever Belfast Book Festival Mairtín Crawford Award.
Mairtín Crawford died on Sunday 11th of January, 2004. For
8 years, Mairtín worked as a part time creative writing tutor
at the Crescent Arts Centre and it is this period that many of
those who read his work and followed his work regard as the
most promising period of his career. This award pays tribute
to Mairtín.
Organised in conjunction with Moyra Donaldson and in
association with the Irish Writers Centre, this Award will be
an inaugural event.
Join us for this special event in which the editor of Mairtín’s
posthumously published Selected Poems, Naomi Foyle, will
launch her poetry pamphlet, No Enemy But Time, and the
friends and literary colleagues of Mairtín gather to celebrate
and read selections from Mairtín’s own work.
“Mairtin wrote as he lived, with a combination of intelligence
and daring, revolutionary spirit and generosity of heart”
- Moyra Donaldson
8.30PM // FREE EVENT // CRESCENT ARTS
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