𝗥𝗖𝗖 𝗩𝗶𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗔𝗿𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁-𝗶𝗻-𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲
Summer 2021

Emily Cooper is a poet and writer whose work has been published in the Stinging Fly, Banshee, Hotel, Poetry Ireland Review and Bath Magg, among others. She has been granted residencies and funding by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, the Irish Writers Centre, Centre Culturel Irlandais, Greywood Arts and Donegal County Council. She currently lives in Ramelton, Co. Donegal.

Emily will release her debut title ‘Glass’ through Makina Book on the 26th August, 2021. Cooper’s poetics masterfully create a compelling space that deliberately excludes wide views—instead bringing her pen up close to a dilapidated house in a small rural town with its own personality. The traces and presence of those who have existed in those spaces—real and imagined—become interdependent in the narrative.

C𝗢𝗡𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗦𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗦

As part of Emily’s Virtual Residency she will present a series of conversations with current and recent collaborators in an attempt to replicate some of the conversations that informally take place in and around physical literary events.

James Conor Patterson and Jess McKinney

A discussion on The New Frontier, an anthology of writing from and about the border, edited by James Conor Patterson and including work by Emily Cooper and Donegal poet, Jess McKinney.