A leading Derry poet, Colette Bryce has published five poetry collections including The Full Indian Rope Trick (Picador, 2004) and Self-Portrait in the Dark (2008). The Whole & Rain-domed Universe (2014), which draws on her experience of growing up in Derry during the Troubles, was shortlisted for the Costa and Forward prizes and received a Ewart-Biggs Award in memory of Seamus Heaney. Selected Poems (2017) was a PBS Special Commendation and winner of the Pigott Prize for Irish poetry. The incoming editor of Poetry Ireland Review in 2020, Colette’s new collection (published by Picador in the same year), is The M Pages.
Colette will hold a poetry reading on Friday evening.