ECM Recording Artist and saxophonist Iain Ballamy has composed a setting of the poem ‘The Owl’ by the late Matthew Sweeney. Co-commissioned by Triskel Arts Centre and Cork World Book Fest, and supported by The Arts Council Commissioning Award for Music, this work will be performed as a world premiere as part of Cork World Book Fest 2020 and is a personal tribute by the Composer to Matthew Sweeney who was a leading poet of his generation.