The 2020 Over The Edge Poetry Book Showcase, featuring Emily Cullen, Michael Gorman, Mary Madec, Geraldine Mills, Jenny
Farrell, Anne Walsh Donnelly, Katherine Noone, Patrick Stack, Aoife Reilly, Nicola
Geddes, Christine Valters Paintner, Knute Skinner, Susan Millar DuMars, Ruth
Quinlan, Lorraine Carey, Kevin Higgins, Rachel Coventry, Liam O’Neill, Art Ó
Suilleabháin, Danielle Holian, Mary Melvin Geoghegan, and the anthologies The Children of the Nation:
An Anthology of Working People’s Poetry from Contemporary Ireland (Culture Matters, edited by Jenny Farrell & Mike Quille) & Writing
Home: The ‘New Irish’ Poets (Dedalus Press, edited by Pat Boran & Chiamaka Enyi-Amadi) will
take place at Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop on Friday, February, 7th starting
at 6pm. The event will be jointly MCed by Kate Ennals and Kevin Higgins.
In this annual retrospective of the year just past, poets based in the West of Ireland, who published a new collection of poems during 2019, are invited to read three poems from the collection in question. There will also be readings from the anthologies The Children of the Nation & Writing Home: The ‘New Irish’ Poets, to which several Galway-based poets contributed.
All welcome. There is no cover charge. For further details phone 087-6431748.
Over The Edge acknowledges the ongoing generous financial support of The Arts Council, Poetry Ireland and Galway City Council.
