Belinda McKeown, the curator of dlr Poetry Now, gives a talk on poetry and place, examining the cartography of the imagination as it manifests itself in the work of several of the poets from this year’s programme.

Paul Muldoon is the author of ten collections of poetry, and a winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. In this lecture, he presents a characteristically playful and idiosyncratic consideration of poems by six Irish poets, looking at “The Guttural Muse” and “Limbo,” by Seamus Heaney, “Sunday Morning” by Louis MacNeice, W.R. Rodgers’s “The Net,” John Montague’s “The Trout”, Medbh McGuckian’s “The Flower Master” and Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill’s “The Shannon Estuary Welcomes the Fish”.

Philip Gross, winner of this year’s T.S. Eliot Prize, presents a special programme of poetry for the children involved in the dlr Poetry Now Education Programme. The programme is designed to introduce 8-10 year olds to contemporary poetry and involves a teachers’ workshop and a number of pre and post festival school visits.

A conversation about poetry - where it comes from, why it matters, and how it is shaped both on the page and in the poet’s mind - with three of the participating poets in this year’s dlr Poetry Now Festival. Moderated by poet and critic Paul Perry. Panel: Homero Aridjis, Poet John F. Deane, Poet and Editor Rosanna Warren, Poet

Poets Justin Quinn, Luljeta Lleshanaku & Philip Gross read from their work before an audience at the Pavilion Theatre.

Poets Derek Mahon & Rosanna Warren read from their work before an audience at the Pavilion Theatre.

In this special celebration, dlrPoetry Now honours The GalleryPress, which celebrates 40 years as Ireland’s leading independent publisher of poetry in 2010. An afternoon of readings by Gallery poets and a public interview with Peter Fallon, founder and editor of The Gallery Press, conducted by Paul Muldoon.

Vona Groarke, Kevin Young & Joan Margarit read from their work before an audience at the Pavilion Theatre.

Anne Stevenson, Homero Aridjis and Paul Muldoon read from their work before an audience at the Pavilion Theatre.

This programme features readings by the poets shortlisted for The Rupert and Eithne Strong Award 2010: Ray Givans, Maggie O’Dwyer, Tom Mathews and Peadar Ó hUallaigh. The event is introduced by Liam Carson, who judged the competition and presents the award.