Jo Burns and Emily Cooper: The Conversation Launch

Emily Cooper is a poet  based in Donegal. Her debut, Glass, was published by Makina Books in 2021 and has been translated into German by Ink Press. The Conversation, a collaborative poetry collection with Jo Burns, will be published by Doire Press in 2024. She is an editor for The Pig’s Back literary journal. 

Jo Burns was born in County Derry but now lives in Germany. She is a fluent German speaker and a university lecturer. The author of Circling for Gods (Eyewear Publishing), White Horses and Brink (both Turas Press), Jo has also been published in Oxford Poetry, Poetry Ireland Review, London Magazine, Magma, Acumen and The Stinging Fly. She has won several Poetry Society Members Poems competitions, as well as the Magma Poetry Competition, the Irish Writers’ Festival Shirley McClure Prize, the Wild Word New Irish Writing in Germany Award, The Listowel Poetry Prize and The Poetry Society UK Hamish Canham Poetry Prize.