Salmon Poetry in association with Over The Edge presents Catching the Light: Views & Interviews by Gerald Dawe and The Odor of Sanctity by Michael Heffernan at Galway City Museum, Spanish Arch on Saturday 27 September at 2pm.

Catching the Light: Views & Interviews is a series of literary views and interviews illuminate the coming of age of Belfast-born poet Gerald Dawe during the fifties and sixties in Northern Ireland.

It centres around the literary and political worlds he discovered on moving to Galway in the early seventies, and his travels since, in Europe and other parts of the world, shadowed by the violent closing decade of the twentieth century and the beginning of the new century.

Michael Heffernan was born in 1942 in Detroit, and grew up there, in a multi-ethnic working-class neighbourhood, eight blocks from the Detroit River and Canada.

He often dreams of border crossings and has frequently travelled abroad, from Ireland to the Dodecanese during the 60s, to the Great Wall approaching Inner Mongolia in 2002.

His poems contain narratives, characters, masks, and free imaginations, expressing themselves in new dance-steps on the ground trod by the iamb. These acts of language, of words only, offered a new knowledge of reality, along with a vision of freedom and a kind of worldly holiness.

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