Events
Warwick Thursday - Gail McConnell (Poet and Critic)
Gail McConnell is a poet and critic. She is the author of The Sun is Open (Penned in the Margins, 2021), Northern Irish Poetry and Theology (Palgrave, 2014), and two pamphlets of poetry, Fothermather (Ink Sweat & Tears, 2019) and Fourteen (Green Bottle Press, 2018). The Sun is Open sifts through a boxed archive of public and private materials related to the life and death of McConnell’s father, who was murdered by the IRA outside their Belfast home in 1984. Moving between child and adult voices, past and present, it attempts to decode the fragments left behind and, with them, piece together a history and a life. The Sun is Open was a Poetry Book of the Month in the Guardian.