July Over The Edge Writers' Gathering with Eamon Grennan AND the best of Skylight 47

Eamon Grennan

July Over The Edge Writers’ Gathering

at Galway City Library

on Thursday, July 10^th

presents a rare reading by renowned poet

Eamon Grennan,

PLUS

Kernan Andrews, Eleanor Hooker & Drucilla Wall

share their favourite poems from the first three issues of Skylight 47

probably Ireland’s most interesting poetry publication

The July Over The Edge Writers’ Gathering which takes place at Galway City Library on Thursday, July 10^th, 6.30-8pm will feature a rare reading by renowned American-based, Irish poet Eamon Grennan and a reading by Kernan Andrews, Eleanor Hooker, and Drucilla Wall of their favourite poems from the first three issues of Skylight 47, probably Ireland’s most interesting poetry publication. Copies of the magazine will be on sale on the evening and can also be purchased online http://skylight47poetry.wordpress.com/buy-skylight-47/.

Skylight 47 is edited by Nicki Griffin, Susan Lindsay, Ruth Quinlan, Marie Cadden, and Bernie Crawford, participants in Poetry Workshops, facilitated by Kevin Higgins, at Galway Arts Centre.  

Eamon Grennan was born in Dublin in 1941 and educated at UCD, where he studied English and Italian, and Harvard, where he received his PhD in English. The Gallery Press has published his poetry collections Wildly For Days (1983), What Light There Is (1987), As If It Matters (1991), So It Goes (1995), Selected and New Poems (2000), Still Life with Waterfall (2001), The Quick of It (2004), Out of Breath (2007) and But the Body (2012). From 1974 he taught at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, until he retired as the Dexter M. Ferry Jr. Professor of English. He teaches in the graduate writing programmes of New York University and Columbia University. Eamon divides his time between the US and the west of Ireland.

Drucilla Wall was raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She teaches poetry and essay writing, and Native American literature, at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. She has earned awards and fellowships for her work, including the Mari Sandoz Prairie Schooner Short Story Award, the Western Literature Association Willa Pilla Prize for Humor in Writing, and University of Nebraska Fling and Larson Fellowships. She lives in St. Louis, Missouri, and has spent summers with family and friends in Wexford and Galway, Ireland, since 1985. Her debut collection of poetry, The Geese at the Gates, was published in 2011 by Salmon Poetry and warmly reviewed in the Irish Times and elsewhere.

Eleanor Hooker lives in North Tipperary. She has an MPhil in Creative Writing (Distinction) from Trinity College, Dublin. She is a founding member and Vice-Chairperson of the Dromineer Literary Festival. She is a helm and Press Officer for the Lough Derg RNLI Lifeboat. In 2011: she was selected for the Poetry Ireland Introductions Series. In February 2012, her debut collection of poetry, The Shadow Owner’s Companion was launched by The Dedalus Press. Eleanor Hooker is the judge for this year’s Over The Edge New Writer of The Year competition, the deadline for which is Wednesday, August 6^th. http://overtheedgeliteraryevents.blogspot.ie/2013/08/2014-over-edge-new-writer-of-year-to-be.html

Kernan Andrews is from Galway and is the arts editor and political correspondent of the Galway Advertiser. He writes short stories in his spare time and has been published in The Galway Review and elsewhere. He has read his work at the Cúirt Festival in 2013 and 2014; as part of the launch for NUI Galway's theatre events in the Galway Fringe Festival 2013; and at numerous Over The Edge open mics. Kernan was a Featured Reader at the August 2013 Over The Edge: Open Reading.

All welcome. There is no entry fee.

Over the Edge acknowledges the ongoing financial support 

of Galway City Council and the Arts Council.

Reading by Galway’s Skylight Poets @ Clifden Arts Week

Friday 20/09/2013 @ 2:00 pm

Clifden Library, Market Street, Clifden, Co Galway Ireland

The Galway’s Skylight Poets, who will mostly read poems published in the second issue of the critically acclaimed Skylight 47 poetry newspaper, as part of the 10th anniversary celebration for the Over the Edge readings in Galway City Library. Facilitated by poet and essayist Kevin Higgins. 

For more see Clifden Arts Week. 

Over The Edge Celebrates Tenth Birthday with Harry Clifton, Jennifer Matthews & James Martyn Joyce PLUS the Launch of SKYLIGHT 47 possibly Ireland's most interesting poetry publication

Over The Edge Celebrates Tenth Birthday with Reading by Harry Clifton, Jennifer Matthews & James Martyn Joyce PLUS the Launch of the first issue of Skylight 47 (possibly Ireland’s most interesting poetry publication)

 

Harry Clifton

Over The Edge in association with Poetry Ireland presents the first ‘Over The Edge: Open Reading’ of 2013 at Galway City Library on Thursday, January 24^th, 6.30-8.00pm. The Featured Readers are James Martyn Joyce, Jennifer Matthews & Harry Clifton. This is a very special occasion as it is now ten years since Over The Edge was born in Galway City Library in January 2003. A most important part of the evening will be the launch of the first issue of Skylight 47, the new bi-annual poetry paper from the Skylight Poets, which will be on sale for the first time on the evening. The first issue includes new poems by established and emerging poets, an interview with Harry Clifton, a poetry masterclass with Paul Maddern and reviews. The magazine is generously sponsored by Food 4 Thought restaurant & Charlie Byrne's Bookshop.

James Martyn Joyce is from Galway and he is a member of The Talking Stick Workshop. His work has appeared in The Cúirt Journal, West 47, Books Ireland, Crannog, The Sunday Tribune, The Stinging Fly and The Shop. He has had stories broadcast on RTE and BBC and has won the Listowel Writers Week Originals Short Story Competition. He was shortlisted for a Hennessy Award in 2006. He was shortlisted for the Francis McManus award in 2007 and 2008 and The William Trevor International Short Story Competition in 2007 and 2011. His first collection of poetry, Shedding Skin, was published by Arlen House in 2010. His collection of short stories, What’s Not Said, was published by Arlen House in 2012.

Jennifer Matthews writes poetry and book reviews, and is editor of the Long Story Short literary journal. Her poetry has been published in The Stinging Fly, Mslexia, Revival, Necessary Fiction, Poetry Salzburg, Foma & Fontanelles and Cork Literary Review, and anthologised in Dedalus's collection of immigrant poetry in Ireland, Landing Places (2010). In 2012 she read at Electric Picnic with Poetry Ireland, and had a poem shortlisted by Gwyneth Lewis in the Bridport poetry competition. She is currently working on a collaboration with poet Anamaría Crowe Serrano.
  
Harry Clifton was born in Dublin in 1952. He studied at Blackrock College and later at University College Dublin. He was also an International Fellow at the University of Iowa. In 1981, he won the Patrick Kavanagh award. He has published seven books of poems and two books of prose. Le Canto d'Ulysse his Selected Poems in French, was published in 1996. His book Secular Eden won the Poetry Now / Irish Times award in 2008. He teaches at University College Dublin and is Ireland Professor of Poetry. His most recent poetry collection is the highly acclaimed The Winter Sleep of Captain Lemass, which was published by Bloodaxe in May 2012.

As usual there will be an open-mic after the Featured Readers have finished. New readers are always most welcome. The MC for the evening will be Susan Millar DuMars. For further details phone 087-6431748.

Over The Edge acknowledges the ongoing generous financial support of Galway City Council, who have funded Over The Edge since 2004; The Arts Council, who have funded us continuously since 2006; and Poetry Ireland who have sponsored several readings over the years, including this reading by Harry Clifton.