Arts in Junior Cycle in Conversation with Writer and Poet Colm Keegan

Colm Keegan is an award-winning writer and poet. He is also an experienced creative writing teacher and facilitator, passionate about empowering new voices and inspiring creativity for individuals and organisations. Colm has developed numerous creative writing projects for schools and colleges across the country and is currently Artist in Residence with Maynooth University. His latest project called Writing Home, which has been made into a documentary film, won a LAMA award for best education initiative 2021. His most recent poetry collection is called ‘Randomer’.

In this episode, Colm speaks about his work with young people and we discuss some creative methodologies that he uses to inspire and support young people in making and sharing their work. He also talks about his own creative processes and reads a powerful poem from ‘Randomer’ called Love Bomb and gives insights to us about the context of this work.

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