KW26 ‘love’s doorway to life’ – Outdoor Poetry Workshop with Nell Regan (all levels)

In this outdoor workshop we’ll spend time gathering images and impressions from the lanes, fields and whitethorn hedges of Shancoduff. We’ll be looking at Kavanagh’s poems as a way into writing (in often unexpected ways) about this landscape as well as our own familiar ‘landscapes’ or places we frequent daily. We’ll return to the Centre to shape our notes into poems.No experience necessary

Meet at the Centre and bring a notebook, pen and outdoor gear (it’s a steepish walk up to the field and we’ll be out in Shancoduff for over an hour) 

Sunday 27th September, 2026

9:30-11.30am

Meet at the Patrick Kavanagh Centre.

Nell Regan is a poet, non-fiction writer and translator. Her latest collection is Thirty-Six Views of the Sugarloaf (Arlen House, 2026) and she has been a Fellow at the International Writing Programme, Iowa, a Fulbright Scholar at UC Berkeley as well as recipient of a Patrick and Katherine Kavanagh Fellowship and Arts Council Literature Bursaries. Her debut Preparing for Spring ( Arlen House, 2007) was shortlisted for the Patrick Kavanagh, Strong, Glen Dimplex New Writing and Vincent Buckley Awards. See also www.nellregan.com

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