Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry
Matt Kirkham
Matt Kirkham was born in Luton in 1966, lives in the Ards peninsula, and works as a teacher. he was featured in Blackstaff's New Soundings anthology of writing from the QUB writers' group, and in Lagan Press's Poetry Introductions 1. His collection The Lost Museums won the 2007 Rupert and Eithne Strong Award for a first collection.
The following poems are from a private recording made by Paul Maddern, 6 April 2007.
Mother and Daughter Playing Hopscotch on the Roof of the Ulster Museum
From 'The Museum of Insanity (One Thousand Maniacs):
Introduction
to 'The Museum of Insanity'
Seventy-Three Men who Laboured Excessively
Twenty-Nine Men with Religious Enthusiasm
Nine Men Remorseful and Despairing of Their Crimes
Coda: This Leaves Three Hundred and Ninety-Five Maniacs Unaccounted
© Matt Kirkham and the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry 2007.