The Experimental Series - Exploring Oona by Alice Lyons
The Experimental Series - Exploring Oona by Alice Lyons
For any writer, especially those daring to venture into uncharted literary territories, this event is an exhilarating opportunity to embrace your creative instincts, push the boundaries of storytelling, and connect with fellow pioneers in the ever-evolving landscape of literature.
This event is part of the Accidental Books Experimental Series event and is featuring at the Belfast Book Festival.
Exploring Oona by Alice Lyons
For any writer, especially those daring to venture into uncharted literary territories, this event is an exhilarating opportunity to embrace your creative instincts, push the boundaries of storytelling, and connect with fellow pioneers in the ever-evolving landscape of literature.
Oona is an award winning work by Alice Lyons that traces the life and education of an artist, Oona, who moves from the United States to rural Ireland. Composed without using the letter O, this novel is particularly intriguing. It is a literary feat. “This is to say that the absence of an ‘o’ isn’t a gimmick: it’s the point. Just as Oona is estranged from herself, so too is the reader estranged from the language of the novel: a niggling sense of things being not quite right abides at the level of theme and form. There’s something voracious about the intellect behind this book; a joyfulness in the possibilities of language, even when it’s expressing something far from joyful, so writes Tara McAvoy in The Stinging Fly. Join us to hear about Alice’s journey and process in developing this magical work.
Alice Lyons was born in Paterson, New Jersey. Her most recent publication is a work of prose, Oona (Lilliput 2020). Lyons is recipient of the Patrick Kavanagh Award, the Ireland Chair of Poetry Bursary awarded by Nuala Ní Dhomnaill, a Radcliffe Fellowship at Harvard University and most recently, the inaugural Heaney-Miłosz Residency in Kraków, Poland. Lyons lives in Sligo and lectures in writing at ATU Sligo.
Show Info
In-Person
Venue: 12-13 Shaftesbury Square, Belfast, BT2 7DB
Access: Directly from Shaftesbury Square
Performance(s): Saturday 8th June 2024
Starts: 7:30pm BST (Book Bar* will not be open, BYOB welcome)
Age Guidance: All
Run Time: 1.5 hours
Disabled Access: Theatre (ground floor) is fully accessible. Toilets & Book Bar (1st floor) are accessible via a wheelchair platform lift. Carer tickets available: Call 028 9032 5881 to book.
Online
This show will not be Online
*The Book Bar is our charity bar, run to help support Accidental & the new building.
Ticket Info
Please book a ticket per person watching to avoid viewing issues.
£6 - ATTEND IN-PERSON TICKET - a standard ticket that gives you in-person access to watch the show in the theatre.
£8 - DONATION TICKET - a special ticket that gives a little extra to the exceptional and hardworking artists creating the show.
