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All Ireland Live Poetry Championships
The second All Ireland Live Poetry
Championships will occur in the White House pub,
Limerick on Wednesday,
12th November.
Next years is scheduled to happen in either Connacht
or Leinster, in what is hoped will become a revolving
and democratic annual jamboree celebrating the noble
bardic art of filidecht.
Live poetry in Ireland is thriving, and to prove
the point the number of venues around the country
that hold regular poetry event is steadily growing,
even Poetry Ireland recently inaugurated an open-mic
event in Damer Hall in Dublin. From Cork to Belfast
and all points in between live poetry is taken the
country by storm. In Galway Over The Edge instigated
by Kevin Higgins: Dominic Taylor and Barney Sheehan
who run the White House Poets weekly Wednesday in
Limerick, Pamela Brown, Jenni Doherty and Abby Oliveira
who perform singularly and as The Poetry Chicks --
all committed facilitators of live poetry events
in Derry - Mark Madden of the Creative Writers Network
in Belfast, Gordon Hewitt and Chelley McLear also
in Ulster, the Monday night ÓBhéal
in Cork which Paul Casey initiated last year -- Mike
Igoe and his three fellow Cavan cohorts from the
fortnightly Naked Lunch series, Orla Martin in the
Winding Stair Bookshop and the poets behind Seven
Towers monthly poetrynight in Cassidy's - all in
Dublin -- are individuals and organizations dedicated
to making the native Irish art of poetry, live, accessible
and inclusive to anyone on the island wishing to
partake of it.
After the success of the very first regional heats
which lead to the inaugural All Ireland Live Poetry
Championships in Belfast last year, won by Liverpudlian
native and long time Galway resident Brendan Murphy
- who went on to the BBC Radio Four Poetry Slam in
London - many of those named above, hooked up to
create an informal body of poet/organisers, with
the intention of making it easier than ever before
for those wishing to discover and attend places in
which to experience a reading, recite themselves,
or even tour around an all island circuit, which
was birthed over a couple of pints in the Electric
Mouse pub, on the penultimate Saturday evening of
the In Sight of Raftery Festival in Kiltimagh,Mayo.
At this festival in the home place of the great
blindpoet-musician from whom it is named, a quadruplet
body of representatives from the four provinces,
met collectively face to face for the first time
and sealed an informal set-up in which the promotion
of live poetry took centre stage.
And the primary tool effecting this coalescing of
creative and organisational talent into an all island
whole, was the internet, which has revolutionised
in a few short years, how people all over the world
communicate, acting as an immediate postal service,
dissemination board, shop window for recordings of
live events, ad-space, classroom and calling card
for anyone with the wit, will and ability to click
their way into a virtual realm where physical borders
and barriers do not exist and the free exchange of
what's inside our head and hearts is happening in
a way unpredictable during the lifetimes of our great
grandparents, only three generations ago.
Further info: Desmond Swords
http://www.myspace.com/dublinpoet - latest Dublin
poets streamed recordings
http://irishpoetry.blogspot.com/ - read the latest
blather.
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.
he third poetry evening in the series ‘SOUNDINGS’ takes
place this Thursday evening November 13th in Newcastle
West Library.
‘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.
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
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
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!
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Waterford
Poetry
no listing
Galway
Poetry
OVER THE EDGE NEW WRITER OF THE YEAR
Wes Lee from Wellington, New Zealand is the 2008
Over The Edge New Writer of The Year. Her story,
Tigers, has been chosen as the winner by competition
judge, Celeste Augé. Tigers will appear
in the January-March issue of Galway Arts Centre's
online literary quarterly, West 47. The runner
up is Hans-Joachim (Hajo) Quade of Galway for his
poems High Flyer, Winkles & Time Warp, while
another Galway-based writer, Alan McMonagle, took
third place with his story The Fight.
About
Wes Lee
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Leading poet-critic John Goodby for November Over
The Edge
The November Over The Edge: Open
Reading will take place in Galway City Library, St.
Augustine
Street, Galway on Thursday, November
20th, 6.30-8pm.
The Featured Readers are Elizabeth Power,
Gordon Hewitt & John Goodby.
Elizabeth Power was born in East Cork but now
calls Galway home. She completed an MA in Writing
at NUIG in 2007. Her poetry has appeared in a wide
variety of magazines, including Crannóg,
Force 10 and Tribes ‘n Vibes. Elizabeth’s
work also featured in the anthology Writers Seeking
Lovers. Currently she works as a librarian and
is writing a novel about a time travelling witch.
Gordon Hewitt initiated the Belfast Poets Touring
Group, a group of performance poets who toured
Ireland, the US, New Zealand and Australia in 2006 & 2007.
The group, now known as Scream Blue Murmur, performed
recently in Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, and at the
Electric Picnic. Gordon is active in di-Verse
(Poets against Racism) which oversees the annual
Love Poetry Hate Racism event which is held in
over 60 cities worldwide each April. Gordon’s
style is a unique blend of spoken word, performance
poetry, song and chant.
John
Goodby is a poet and translator who lectures
at the University of Swansea. His poetry has
been described by Sean O'Brien as ‘bold
and sensuous ... it reads like a chowder of names
laced with methedrine ... at once lush and abrasive.’ John
Goodby has translated Heine's Germany: A Winter’s
Tale (2005), the contemporary Algerian poet Soleiman
Adel Guemar, and is currently translating the
work of Pier Paolo Pasolini. Among his latest
publications are the first anthology of translations
of Irish women poets into Spanish, No Soy Tu
Musa and uncaged sea (2008), a cut-up version
of the Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas. He is
the author of the influential Irish Poetry Since
1950: From Stillness into History (Manchester
University Press) and founder of Wales’s
only poetry performance group, Boiled String.
As usual there will be an open-mic when the Featured
Readers have finished. This is open to anyone who
has a poem or story to share. New readers are always
especially welcome. For further details phone 087-6431748.
Over The Edge acknowledges the financial support
of Galway City Council and The Arts Council http://overtheedgeliteraryevents.blogspot.com/
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Welcome
to the Obama era!
North Beach Poetry Nights presents
on Monday November 10th at
9 pm
at New Venue: The Crane Bar, Sea Road
Guest
Poet Tim Wells (East London)
Admission 5 Euro.
Londoner Tim Wells is a performance
poet and author of three books, including
his latest collection, 'Boys Night Out in the Afternoon' (Donut
Press), which was short-listed for the Forward
Prize. He has toured the US and has worked
as a guest poet on Radio London and supported
The Libertines with his 'Cockney Hell' poetry show.
A regular contributor to the Illustrated
Ape and Nude magazines, he is also the
long-time editor of Rising, an independent poetry magazine.
Also:
The Last North Beach Poetry Nights'
2 Round Slam of 2008 before the Grand Slam
on December 15th!
The winner of this month's Slam goes
forward to the 2008 North Beach Poetry Nights'
Grand Slam on December 15th.
The prize for the Grand Slam winner is publication
of a collection of her/his work.
("Inheritance" debut
collection by last year's winner Miceál
Kearney available in Charlie Byrne's bookshop and
from www.doirepress.com)
And featuring
The Reverend Reynolds
with his irreverent songs
North Beach Poetry Nights gratefully acknowledges
the support
of the Arts Council and Galway City Council Arts
Office.
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Readings in Siobhan
Mc Kenna Theatre at NUI Galway:
No details
Talks/ Workshops on Civic Space
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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
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
no
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
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