Eamon Grennan
July Over The Edge Writers’ Gathering
at Galway City Library
on Thursday, July 10th
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 10th, 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 6th. 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.
