Joan McBreen Poetry Reading

Irish poet Joan McBreen gives a public reading at the Woodruff Library on the Emory University campus. The reading was followed by a reception to celebrate the completed processing of McBreen's papers, which she placed with the Emory Libraries' Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL) in 2008. McBreen's papers join MARBL's rich collection of Irish literary works, dubbed an "Irish literary village" by Irish poet Eamon Grennan, who placed his papers with the library last spring. MARBL's collection also includes the works and/or papers of W.B. Yeats, Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon and Paul Muldoon.

McBreen has published several volumes of poetry, includingThe Wind Beyond the Wall (1990), A Walled Garden in Moylough (1995), Winter in the Eye: New and Selected Poems(2003) and Heather Island (2009). She is more widely known as the editor of two anthologies. The White Page: Twentieth-Century Irish Women Poets, published in 1999, garnered praise for drawing attention to overlooked female poets. Her 2009 anthology The Watchful Heart: A New Generation of Irish Poets - Poems and Essays, highlights lesser-known younger Irish poets and has received positive reviews for its selections.

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