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Writer and poet Anton Floyd gives a reading from latest work 'Depositions'
On 22nd February Anton Floyd gave a reading from his latest poetry collection, Depositions, as part of UCC Refugee Week 2024. Depositions, was launched in June 2022 (in association with Doire Press). The book deals with population displacement and the worldwide refugee crisis with all proceeds from sales in support of the funds of UNHCR - Ireland the Refugee Agency of the United Nations.
Anton Floyd was born in Egypt, a Levantine mix of Irish, Maltese, English and French Lebanese. He studied English at Trinity College, Dublin and University College, Cork. He has worked in the eastern Mediterranean and now lives in West Cork. Poems widely published in Ireland and internationally. A member of Irish Haiku Society, he is several times winner of International Haiku Competitions. A selection of haiku is included in Between the Leaves, an anthology of new haiku writing from Ireland edited by Anatoly Kudryavitsky (Arlen House, 2016). His first poetry collection, Falling into Place was published by Revival Press in 2018). He received the 2019 Literary Prize awarded by the Dazzling Spark Arts Foundation in 2019) A new collection of poems On the Edge of Invisibility is in preparation.
This event was hosted by UCC Futures - Collective Social Futures and ISS21.