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TED
SLADE AWARD 2009
The Ted Slade Award is an annual award made to someone
who has made an outstanding contribution to poetry over a long
period of time. This year's
award is made to :
GEOFF STEVENS
Geoff is editor of Purple Patch Magazine which
he jointly founded in 1976.
More information about this award can be found at
http://www.poetrykit.org/tsa.htm
Newcastle
West SOUNDINGS
Thursday the 19th
March in Newcastle West Library at 8.00
pm with a reading by poet Kevin Higgins
Kevin Higgins is co-organiser of Over The Edge. He facilitates
poetry workshops at Galway Arts Centre; teaches creative writing at Galway
Technical Institute and is Writer-in-Residence at Merlin Park Hospital.
He is the poetry critic of the Galway Advertiser. His first collection
of poems The Boy With No Face was published by Salmon in February 2005
and was short-listed for the 2006 Strong Award. His second collection,
Time Gentlemen, Please, was published in March 2008 by Salmon. One of
the poems from Time Gentlemen, Please, ‘My Militant Tendency’,
features in the Forward Book of Poetry 2009. A recent poem of his, ‘Ourselves
Again’, appeared in Best of Irish Poetry 2009. His work will be
featured in the forthcoming anthology Identity Parade – The New
British and Irish Poets (Bloodaxe, 2010).
All are welcome
SOUNDINGS…
If you are the type of person who snatches time to write poems, enjoys
playing with the sound and feel of words and listening to other poets
reading, then perhaps you might be interested in participating in a
series of poetry evenings entitled ‘SOUNDINGS’ being hosted
by Limerick County Council every second Thursday in the library Newcastle
West at 8.00pm.
The SOUNDINGS... evening begin with a reading by our guest poet followed
by an ‘open mic’ session for all who would like to read their
own poetry.
The second part of the SOUNDINGS evening is
facilitated by poet Eileen Sheehan who is now in her second term
as the county’s poet in residence. This part of the
evening is for all those people out there who are writing away
quietly and would like the opportunity to read their work to
a sympathetic audience. It takes courage to take that first
step to stand in front of the mic but it is so worthwhile
and invariably heightens confidence and encourages active poetry
writing.
SOUNDINGS is held every second Thursday in the library Newcastle West
at 8.00 pm and an open invitation is extended to all poets, bards and
haiku masters to come and read their work.
Full details on the poet in residence programme and the SOUNDINGS evenings
are available from the County Arts Office at telephone 496498/496300.
If you like to receive notification of the SOUNDING
events please email us at arts@limerickcoco.ie
Limerick
Poetry Soundings…
If you are the type of person who snatches time to
write poems, enjoys playing with the sound and feel of words
and listening to other poets reading, then perhaps you might
be interested in participating in a series of poetry evenings
entitled ‘Soundings’ being
hosted by Limerick County Council.
‘SOUNDINGS’ is an evening of poetry,
musings and stories’ says librarian Aileen Dillane. ‘If
you are the type of person who enjoys hearing poetry read or
are writing your own poetry, then this series which has commenced
under the county’s poet in residence Eileen Sheehan is
bound to interest you. We are really pleased to have Mary Kennelly
as our guest poet for this SOUNDINGS evening. Many people will
be familiar with Mary’s first lovely collection ‘Sunny
Spells, Scattered Showers’ and her second collection is
due out from Salmon Press in the New Year.”
‘The evening also features an ‘open
mic’ session’, says Arts Officer Joan Mac Kernan, ‘and
this is open to anyone who would like to read their own work.
To date we have been delighted with the uptake and impressed
with the number of people who are quietly writing away. And of
course reading one’s work aloud to an interested audience
whets the creative juices.”
SOUNDINGS, an evening of magic woven around
the sound and meaning of words commences at 8.00 pm and all are
welcome.
Full details on the poet in residence programme
and the SOUNDINGS evenings are available from the County Arts
Office at telephone 496498/496300.
CORK
Cork Poetry
POET'S
PLATFORM AT Tigh Filí Arts Centre Mac
Curtain Street, Cork
no
details
Poetry
Ireland
120 St Stephen's
Green, Dublin 2
Waterford
Poetry
no listing
Errigal
Writers
OPEN MIKE POETRY
VENUE
EVERY
TUESDAY @ 8pm : Admission FREE
Glen of Aherlow,
29 Emmet Road Kilmainham
Featuring, special guests, open mike, recordings, & video's
Buses, 78A, 51A, 51B & 51C stop at the door (from Aston Quay). Also
the Red Line Tram stops nearby at Suir Rd. Bridge.
Read your work, catch up on the gossip and hear what's going down!
DUBLIN
POETRY
Dublin Poetry Revival
VENUE: The Left Bank (behind the Oliver St John Gogarty's
Bar,Fleet St;)
DATE: Every Tuesday night
TIME: 7.30p.m. ‘til 10.30p.m. Open Mic for everyone so come along!!
For more info contact Gerry Mc Namara at write_recite@hotmail.com
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Galway
Poetry
Summer
Poetry Special at Sheridan’s Wine Bar
Over The Edge presents
a summer poetry special with readings by Ailbhe Darcy, John Corless,
Tom Lavelle, Anthony Daly & John
Liddy at Sheridan’s Wine Bar, 14-16 Church Yard Street,
Galway on Friday, July 3rd, 8pm.
Ailbhe Darcy has published poems in Ireland, Britain and the
US, and writes critically for a number of publications including
The Stinging Fly and Verbal. She recently appeared as part of
the prestigious Poetry Ireland Introductions Series, and has
read at the London Irish Centre, Poetry Café, RADA, Dublin’s
Liberty Hall and Keats’ House. She has just embarked on
a PhD in contemporary poetry at the University of Notre Dame.
Her poetry features in the recently published anthology Voice
Recognition 21 Poets For The 21st Century (Bloodaxe) and will
also feature in the generation defining anthology to be published
by Bloodaxe early next year Identity Parade: New British and
Irish Poets.
John Corless lives and writes in County Mayo in the Irish Riviera.
His poetry is a mix of political, satirical, ecclesiastical and
rural and has been described as Paul Durcan meets The Sawdoctors.
He has an MA in Creative Writing from Lancaster University (2008)
and is currently researching for a PhD. He writes poetry, fiction
and drama. His work has been published in magazines and collections
worldwide. Some of his poems have been referred to the Attorney
General for approval. His creative writing classes in the Castlebar
campus of GMIT are very popular. He hopes to be a full-time writer
when he grows up. Thankfully, there's no evidence of that happening
yet. His first collection of poems Are You Ready? was published
recently by Salmon Poetry.
Tom Lavelle lives in Galway and works as the finance director
of a manufacturing company. He is currently a participant in
the Advance Poetry Workshop at Galway Arts Centre and as part
of that group read his work at last year’s Clifden Arts
Week. His poems have appeared in Revival, West 47 online and
The Cuirt Annual. Tom was shortlisted for the Cúirt Over
The Edge showcase reading in both 2008 and 2009 and in the 2008
Over The Edge New Writer of The Year competition. This coming
Autumn he will be embarking on an M Phil in Writing at the University
of Glamorgan.
Anthony Daly was born in Galway in 1979. He gained a BA Degree
in Classics and History from NUI. Galway. He has been writing
poetry for about the past decade and has published several poems
in the local press. He has acted with Selkie Theatre in 2008
in their production last summer of Goodwill, as well as in several
other productions and shows over the last six years. Anthony
has been a many time participant in the Cúirt Poetry Grand
Slam, was a Featured Reader at the March 2005 Over The Edge:
Open Reading and was shortlisted for the 2007 Cúirt Over
The Edge Showcase reading.
John Liddy was born in Youghal, Co. Cork, grew up in Limerick
and now lives in Spain. His poetry collections include Boundaries
(1974), The Angling Cot (1991), Song of the Empty Cage (1997),
Wine and Hope (1999), Cast-A-Net (2003) & The Well: New and
Selected Poems (2007). La Barca de la Arena (a translation by
Francisco Rivero in Spanish of The Angling Cot) & Poisionous
Pleasure (a tanslation by John Liddy from Tosigo Ardento by José Maria Álvarez)
were published recently. His work has been widely praised by
critics such as Desmond O’Grady and Patrick Galvin. He
lives in Madrid.
There is no entrance fee. All welcome.
North Beach Poetry Nights
Monday June 22th at 9 pm
in
The Crane Bar, Sea Road, Galway The North Beach Poetry Nights'
June 2009 Slam with Guest Poet: Pete Mullineaux
Galway poet, Pete Mullineaux , has played from Cuirt to Glastonbury,
Greenham Common to Trafalgar Square, alongside such luminaries
as Salman Rushdie, Melvin Bragg and the Pogues.
His first poem Harvest Festival was published in Macmillan's
anthology Poetry and Song, when he was aged 13 ( a few years
ago.)
Pete grew up in Bristol but in the late 70's, early 80's deserted
to London to join the punk rock band The Resisters.
Music, drama and poetry have been the driving
forces of Pete's life ever since. He even managed to fit in a first class honours in drama from
Middlesex University along the way!
His collection 'A Father's Day' (Salmon Poetry, 2008) has
been described by various reviewers as 'tender and lyrical',
'gorgeously resonant' and 'grimly funny' and drawn comparisons
with Brian Patten and John Cooper-Clarke .
Pete will be reading on the night from 'A Father's Day', the
day after Father's Day on Sunday June 21st. (Don't forget!!)
Guest MC: Miceal Kearney
Poets wishing to take part in the 2-Round
Slam please bring along
two three-minute poems, preferrably memorized.
The winner of each month's Slam goes forward to the 2009 North
Beach Poetry Nights' Grand Slam in December 2009. The prize
for the Grand Slam winner is publication of a collection of
her/his work.
Admission 5/ 3 Euro.
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Over The Edge New Writer of the Year competition 2009
offers €1,000 in prize money PLUS reading opportunity
sponsored by Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop, Kelly Office Supplies,
Mary Higgins & a generous individual donor who wishes to
remain anonymous
In 2009 Over The Edge is continuing its exciting annual creative
writing competition. The competition is open to both poets
and fiction writers. The total prize money is €1,000.
The best fiction entry will win €300. The best poetry
entry will win €300. One of these will then be chosen
as the overall winner and will receive an additional €400,
giving the author total prize money of €700 and the title
Over The Edge New Writer of The Year 2009. The 2009 Over The
Edge New Writer of The Year will be a Featured Reader at a
reading to be scheduled in Galway City Library in Winter 09/10.
Entries should be sent to Over The Edge, New Writer of the
Year competition, 3 Carbry Road, Newcastle, Galway, Ireland
with an accompanying SAE. Entries will be judged anonymously,
so do not put your name on your poem(s) or story. Put your
contact details on a separate sheet.
Criteria: fiction of up to three thousand words, three poems
of up to forty lines, or one poem of up to one hundred lines.
Multiple entries are acceptable but each must be accompanied
by a fee. The fee for one entry is €10. The fee for multiple
entries is €7.50 per entry e.g. two entries will cost €15,
three entries €22.50 and so on. Fee payable by cheque
or money order to Over The Edge. To take part you must be at
least sixteen years old by September 1st 2009 and not have
a book published or accepted for publication in that genre.
Chapbooks excepted. Entries must not have been previously published
or be currently entered in any other competition.
The closing date is Monday, August 3rd, 2009. A longlist will
be announced in Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop on Wednesday,
August 19th, 2009. A shortlist will be announced at the Over
The Edge: Open Reading in Galway City Library on Thursday,
August 27th 2009. The winners will be announced at the Over
The Edge reading in Galway City Library on Thursday, September
24th, 2009.
This year the competition judge is Patrick Chapman. He is a
poet, fiction-writer and screenwriter. His poetry collections
are Jazztown, (Raven Arts Press, 1991), The New Pornography
(Salmon, 1996), Breaking Hearts and Traffic Lights (Salmon,
2007) and A Shopping Mall on Mars (BlazeVOX, 2008). His fifth
collection will appear from Salmon in 2010. He has also written
a collection of stories, The Wow Signal (Bluechrome, 2007);
Burning the Bed (2003), a multi-award-winning film starring
Gina McKee and Aidan Gillen; and an audio play, Doctor Who:
Fear of the Daleks (Big Finish, 2007). He lives in Dublin.
see http://overtheedgeliteraryevents.blogspot.com
Scribbler’s
Cafe and Wine Bar
Middle Street,
Galway
See North Beach Nights (this page)
Java’s
Coffee House, Abbeygate Steet
The Fiction Clinic with Susan Millar DuMars.
Tuesday
Fee: 8 Euro per session (6 Euro concession) for details 087-9428540
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details
WESTERN
WRITERS’ CENTRE
- IONAD SCRÁDBHNEOIRÁ CHAITLÁN MAUDE
34 Nuns Island,
GALWAY
Western Writers'
Centre Plans Major Autumn Literary Event
www.thepoetrymill.blogspot.com and www.thestorybarn.blogspot.com
Submissions to writersgalway@eircom.net or sylfredcar@iolfree.ie
Galway
Writers Centre
Readings in Siobhan
Mc Kenna Theatre at NUI Galway:
No details
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NEW
KINVARA POETRY NIGHT
9.00pm,
2nd Monday Every Month
GREEN’S BAR,
KINVARA
Bring a poem (or two):
Poems you have written;
or poems you love;
or just come to listen
First session 9.00pm Monday 10th November
2008
EVERYONE WELCOME
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