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Past pupil Simon Lewis publishes first collection of poetry

"Jewtown" by Simon Lewis Image: simonlewis.ie
NEWS / 8 June 2016

Congratulations to Simon Lewis who has just published his first collection of poetry, "Jewtown" and is the winner of the 2015 Hennessy Poetry Prize.

On Tuesday, 7th June the Irish Times published an interview with past pupil, Simon Lewis, on the publication of his first poetry collection, "Jewtown" published by Doire Press. Congratulations to Simon who in 2015 was the winner of the Hennessy Prize for Emerging Poetry and the runner up in the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award in 2015.

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