An Evening of Poetry with Emma McKervey and Kelly Creighton @ Sentry Hill

Join poets, Emma McKervey and Kelly Creighton, in the historic surroundings of Sentry Hill farmhouse as they present their latest work.

Emma, an award-winning poet from the Ards Peninsula, will be reading from her latest collection, Highland Boundary Fault, which tells the tale of her great grandparents’ love affair on the Isles of Scotland and the jealousy it aroused from a young village girl who intercepted their letters. She has won the Poetry NI/Translink Poetry Competition, and been shortlisted for the NI National Poetry Competition and the Bord Gáis Irish Book Awards Poem of the Year Award in 2016. In 2017 she also had two poems highly commended for the Seamus Heaney Prize.

Kelly Creighton, acclaimed poet, short story and crime writer also from Northern Ireland, will be reading from her new pamphlet, Unbecoming, a true crime story about the Staten Island Witch, Polly Bodine. Kelly is also the author of the DI Harriet Sloane series alongside a number of standalones. Her short fiction has been awarded runner up for the Michael McLaverty Short Story Award and the Abroad Writers’ Conference Short- Short Story Prize and shortlisted for the Fish Short Story Prize and Cuirt New Writing Prize. Amongst her other accolades, her poetry was shortlisted for the inaugural Seamus Heaney Award for New Writing and highly commended for the Gregory O’ Donoghue Poetry Prize. She has published poems in journals such as Poetry Ireland Review, The North, Under the Radar, The Honest Ulsterman, and Banshee.

Refreshments will be served and there will be a small meet and greet before heading into the old farmhouse for the readings and panel of questions.

Running Time: 90 minutes