Jane Clarke's first collection, The River, was published by Bloodaxe Books in 2015 to both public and critical acclaim. In 2016 she won the Listowel Writers' Week Poem of the Year Award, the Hennessy Literary Award for Poetry and The River was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Literary Award. She is a native of Roscommon. Lemn Sissay: Photo Hamish Brown LEMN SISSAY MBE is associate artist at Southbank Centre, patron of The Letterbox Club and The Reader Organisation, ambassador for The Children's Reading Fund, trustee of Forward Arts Foundation and inaugural trustee of World Book Night and an honorary doctor of Letters. He has been a writer from birth and foremost he is a poet. Danny Diamond is a fiddle player, composer, and recording engineer based in Dublin.

Followed by: Strokestown Miscellany MC James Harpur

Come and toast the first 20 years of the festival in the company of old friends - prose, poetry and music Finbar Magee & Breige Quinn