After
the big success of the June reading, the July ‘Over The Edge: Open Reading’
takes place on Zoom on Thursday, July 9th
at the usual Over The Edge time 6.30-8.00pm
(local Galway time). The Featured Readers are Veronica Volkow, Ailbhe Darcy, & Kim Moore. There will, as
always at Over The Edge: Open Readings, be an open-mic after the Featured
Readers have finished. New readers are always especially welcome at the
open-mic. Anyone interested in taking part in the open-mic should text Kevin
Higgins on 087-6431748 or email over-the-edge-openreadings@hotmail.com between 6pm and
6.30pm on the evening of the reading. The MC for the evening will be Susan
Millar DuMars.
Meeting ID: 738 901 3549
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| Kim Moore |
Kim Moore was born in 1981 and lives and works
in Cumbria. She is one of the leading newer voices in British poetry. Kim Moore’s first collection The
Art of Falling (Seren, 2015) won the 2016 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize.
She won a Northern Writers Award in 2014, an Eric Gregory Award in 2011 and the
Geoffrey Dearmer Prize in 2010. Her pamphlet If We Could Speak Like
Wolves was a winner in the 2012 Poetry Business Pamphlet Competition.
She is a PhD candidate at Manchester Metropolitan University, working on her
second collection and is one of the judges for the 2020 Forward Prizes for
Poetry.
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| Ailbhe Darcy |
Ailbhe Darcy was born in Dublin in 1981 and brought up there. She studied for her
PhD and MFA at the University of Notre Dame in the US, and taught there and at
the University of Münster in Germany. She is now a lecturer in creative writing
at Cardiff University. She has published her poetry in Ireland, Britain and the
US. Selections of her work are included in the Bloodaxe anthologies Identity
Parade and Voice Recognition, and in her pamphlet A Fictional
Dress (tall-lighthouse, 2009). Imaginary Menagerie (Bloodaxe Books,
2011), her first book-length collection, was shortlisted for Ireland's dlr
Strong Award at Poetry Now / Mountains to Sea. A collaboration with S.J.
Fowler, Subcritical Texts, was published by Gorse in 2017. Her second
collection, Insistence, was published by Bloodaxe in 2018 and was
shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2018 and for the Irish Times Poetry
Now Award 2019. She has been described as “the
best Irish poet of her generation”.
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| Veronica Volkov |
Veronica Volkow lives in Mexico City and is a
poet, and travel writer. She is also the great-granddaughter
of co-leader of the Russian Revolution Leon Trotsky. She currently works as a
professor and senior researcher at the National Autonomous University of
Mexico (UNAM). She has a master's degree in comparative literature from
Columbia University, a doctorate in comparative literature from UNAM, and a master's
degree in Art History from UNAM. She received the Pellicer Prize for published
work in 2004 and the José Revueltas Prize for Literary Essay in 2005. Her line
of research is in hermeneutics of art and literature; as a teacher she
specializes in poetry-painting relationships. She published a chronicle about daily life in apartheid South Africa,
Diary of a Trip in 1988. As a poet her collections
include: La Sibila de Cumas, 1974; Ink Coast, 1979; The beginning, 1983; Los
caminos, 1989. Arcanos, 1996; Gold of
the Wind, 2003; and Arcana,
United Kindom, Shearsman Books, 2009. Her poems have been widely anthologised
and translated. Veronica will be reading her poems in both English translation
and the original Spanish.
Over The Edge is inviting you to the July
Over The Edge: Open Reading on Zoom. Thursday, July 9th, 6.30-8pm
Join The Over The Edge Zoom Meeting at
Meeting ID: 738 901 3549
Over The Edge acknowledges the ongoing generous financial support of Galway City Council, Poetry Ireland & The Arts Council.
