Arts
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With fellow lecturers at 49th Yeats International Summer School in Sligo, 2008
(Photo: Massimo Bacigalupo)
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In discussion with Hans-Magnus Enzensberger at Aldeburgh Poetry Festival, 2005
(Photo: Peter Everard-Smith)
Talks, Lectures, Readings
Poet, musician, critic, Cahal Dallat has given poetry readings, played (bandoneon, musette-accordion, mando-fiddle, balalaika, piano, clarinet, soprano-sax &c) and, sometimes simultaneously, talked — at length — on literature, religion, drama, politics, film, Ireland, bandoneons and the Cold War, India, Spain-and-the-Thirties in Britain & the US, art, Yeats & lutes, science-fiction, tango, Russian “Silver Age” poets, jazz, Celtic baroque, Joyce and Bohemia &c, throughout Britain & Ireland as well as chairing lectures, panels & discussions and interviewing writers & artists over many years at conferences, academic institutions, literary & arts venues and festivals including … the Voice Box on London’s South Bank, Aldeburgh Festival & Aldeburgh Poetry Festival, Coffee-House Poetry at the Troubadour, Poetry Society/Somerset House, the John Hewitt Spring-Festival/Summer-Schools in the North of Ireland, Glasgow’s Celtic Connections, Bridlington Poetry Festival, Torbay Poetry Festival, StAnza: Scotland’s Poetry Festival, Aspects (Bangor NI) Irish Literature Festival, Brighton Festival, Ilkley Festival, Lyth Arts Centre, Cafe Ibsen Limassol, Wokingham’s ArtsBar, Kent & Sussex Poetry Society, Ware Poets, the Crypt in Islington, Over the Edge at Sheridan’s Cheese Shop in Galway, the Belfast Festival at Queen’s, Bedford Park Festival, Magdalene College’s Year-in-Literature Festival & Yeats International Summer School in Sligo.
Essays and Reviews
C.L. Dallat’s work on Irish writers appears in:
- Contemporary Literary Criticism (Gale, US),
- The Glow upon the Fringe (VAC, Derry),
- Returning to Ourselves (Lagan, Belfast)
- and in Acumen, Verse, Wasafiri, Talking Verse, Gairfish, Southfield, Poetry Ireland Review, Honest Ulsterman, Causeway & Fortnight.
He has written for the TLS, Guardian, The North, Poetry Review, Magma, Poetry London and Magill (Dublin).
After 20 years as occasional contributor to radio arts programmes including Kaleidoscope, Nightwaves & Arts Extra — he has been, since its inception in 1998, a regular panellist on BBC Radio 4’s weekly arts & panel discussion, Saturday Review.
Topics
Watch this space.