The Cúrt International Festival of Literature is Ireland's leading literary festival and is celebrating its 21st birthday this year. Cúirt 2l: The Cúirt Annual 2006 presents some highlights from this year's festival and key pieces from Galway Arts Centre's online journal, west47.

Included are unpublished poems and stories by leading Irish and International writers such as Seamus Heaney, Edna O'Brien, Nikki Giovanni, Eoin Colfer, Ken Bruen, Dunya Mikhail, Peter Sirr, Zoe Wicomb, Ronan Bennett, Drago Jancar, Leland Bardwell, Choman Hardi and John F. Deane.