1050 Jenkins Nanovic Halls

Join us in celebrating Lá Fhéile Bríde/St. Brigid's Day 2025 with a reading by visiting poet Victoria Kennefick! Book sales and a reception will follow the reading.<br><strong>Victoria Kennefick's </strong>debut collection, <a href="https://www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?product=9781800170704"><em>Eat or We Both Starve</em></a> (Carcanet Press, 2021), won the Seamus Heaney First Collection Poetry Prize and the Dalkey Book Festival Emerging Writer of the Year Award. It was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize, the Costa Poetry Book Award, Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry and the Butler Literary Prize. Her second collection, <a href="https://www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?product=2493"><em>Egg/Shell</em></a> (Carcanet Press, 2024), was a Poetry Book Society Choice for Spring 2024 and BBC Poetry Extra Book of the Month for March. <em>Egg/Shell</em> was also a Book of the Year 2024 in <em>The Telegraph, The Sunday Independent </em>and <em>The Poetry Society.</em><br>This event is co-sponsored by the <a href="/creative-writing/">Creative Writing Program</a>.<br>Originally published at <a href="https://irishstudies.nd.edu/events/2025/01/29/la-fheile-bride-st-brigids-day-celebration-poetry-reading-by-victoria-kennefick/">irishstudies.nd.edu</a>.<br><br><a href="https://english.nd.edu/news-events/events/2025/01/29/la-fheile-bride-st-brigids-day-celebration-poetry-reading-by-victoria-kennefick/">https://english.nd.edu/news-events/events/2025/01/29/la-fheile-bride-st-brigids-day-celebration-poetry-reading-by-victoria-kennefick/</a>