September Over The Edge
Writers’ Gathering
at Galway Arts Centre’s
Nuns’ Island Theatre
presents
Northern Irish poets
Maria McManus & Deirdre
Cartmill,
Australian poet Teresa Bell,
Galway poet & writer Vinny
Finn
PLUS
The AWAY WITH WORDS writers.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12th, 8pm
The September Over The Edge Writers’ Gathering presents readings by Galway based poet and writer Vinny Finn, visiting
Australian poet Teresa Bell, Northern Irish poets Deirdre Cartmill & Maria
McManus and the AWAY WITH WORDS
writers. The
event will take place at Galway Arts Centre’s NUNS’ ISLAND THEATRE, Nuns’
Island, Galway on Friday, September 12th, 8pm. All are welcome.
There is no cover charge.
Vinny Finn is a
Psychotherapist based in Galway. He has enjoyed some success in writing
having won the Marie Edgworth Award for Poetry as well as the Windows
Award. He was involved in several projects with the Longford Arts Council
and Poetry Ireland before moving to Galway. His writing is influenced
principally by spiritually and how it affects the mind, with a focus on
psychotherapy, theology and philosophy as a constant background in his
work. He enjoyed the sporadic nature of poetry and how it blends well with
an organic, holistic sense of self. He is currently working on his first
book, a true story and what may be described as a 'psychological noire';
expected (with publishers help) in 2015.
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| Vinny Finn |
Teresa Bell is a writer,
performer, teacher and director based in Sydney. Teresa’s performances are
always unique and combine a blend of music, physical theatre, performance and
the poetic. She was Founding Director of Australia’s first national poetry
centre, Australian Poetry and prior to this was Artistic Director for
Playworks, the national script development organisation. Teresa has directed
performances and toured her work to nearly every state in Australia and
overseas. Her directing and writing work have won numerous awards including the
Wal Cherry, an AWGIE and the George Fairfax and Shelton Lea awards for
performance. Teresa is appearing at an interdisciplinary conference titled
‘Making Sense of Madness’ at Oxford University in early September where she will
be giving a paper and performing an extract from her new book before coming to
Ireland to read her new work.
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| Teresa Bell |
Maria McManus is a poet and
playwright. Maria's most recent publication is We are Bone (Lagan Press 2013). Her previous poetry includes The Cello Suites (Lagan Press 2009),
which has been recorded with an original score composed and played by the
cellist Tom Hughes. Reading the Dog (Lagan Press 2006) her first collection of poetry,
was runner up in the 2007 Strong Awards at the Poetry Now International
Festival and was also short-listed for the 2007 Glen Dimplex New Writers
Award. In 2008 & 2012 she was awarded an Arts Council
individual artist award. Of We Are Bone
the poet Joan Newmann said ‘A joyful read
as if you are coming towards each reader with your arms held out.’
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| Maria McManus |
Deirdre Cartmill is a Belfast
based poet, writer and screenwriter. She has published two poetry collections The Return of the Buffalo (Lagan Press,
2013) and Midnight Solo (Lagan Press,
2004). The Return of the Buffalo
deals with grief and loss, and attempts to make sense of the seemingly
meaningless, but this is always weighted with how suddenly, unexpectedly joyous
life can be. Midnight Solo is written
from the perspective of a generation who grew up through the conflict in the
north of Ireland and their struggle to envision a new normality in a
post-conflict society. She received an
Artists' Career Enhancement Scheme Award from the Arts Council in 2011 and
spent a year affiliated with the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry at Queen's
University.
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| Deirdre Cartmill |
Away with Words is an
innovative arts project which enables people with intellectual disability to
explore and develop their creativity through writing. Away with Words offers a wide range of theme based workshops and
events facilitated by local writers who also support people to engage in the
arts life of their community through participation in public readings and
publication of their work. In 2012, a collection of their writing Jessica Casey
& Other Works was published by Salmon and launched at the Cúirt Festival. http://www.salmonpoetry.com/details.php?ID=257&a=217
There is no entrance fee.
For further information contact 087-6431748.
Over The Edge acknowledges the ongoing
financial support of the Arts Council
and Galway City Council.
