Saturday, October 13, 2007

Four poetry collections launched at Charlie Byrne's Bookshop by Over The Edge

Photos by Jessie Lendennie





Dave Lordan reads from The Boy In The Ring



Billy Ramsell reads from Complicated Pleasures

Alan Jude Moore





Alan Jude Moore reading from Mike Begnal's Ancestor Worship

Professor Brian Arkins introducing Knute Skinner







Knute Skinner reading from Fifty Years: Poem 1957-2007


Billy Ramsell









Dave Lordan relaxes

Susan Millar DuMars











Charlie Byrne and bookshop manager, Vinny Browne
Kevin Higgins with the Salmon anthology
Over The Edge facilitated the Galway launch of Ancestor Worship by Michael S. Begnal (Salmon Poetry); Fifty Years: Poems 1957-2007 Poems by Knute Skinner (Salmon Poetry);The Boy in the Ring by Dave Lordan (Salmon Poetry) & Complicated Pleasures by Billy Ramsell (Dedalus Press) http://www.dedaluspress.com/poets/ramsell.html

at Charlie Byrne's Bookshop Middle Street, Galway

on Friday 12th October.
Dave Lordan, Billy Ramsell & Knute Skinner read from their collections.
Mike Begnal was sadly unable to attend due to plane delays which left him stranded in the US.
Mike's good friend and fellow Salmon poet, Alan Jude Moore, stepped in to read a selection of poems from Ancestor Worship.

Over The Edge acknowledges the financial support of Galway City Council and The Arts Council