The March ‘Over The Edge: Open Reading’ takes place in Galway City Library on Thursday, March 26th, 6.30-8.00pm. The Featured Readers are Sean Lysaght, Tim Dwyer & Gráinne McHale. There will as usual be an open-mic after the Featured Readers have finished. New readers are especially welcome.
Gráinne McHale is from County Galway. She graduated in 2010 with a BA Fine Art in GMIT Galway and is currently studying for a MA Writing at NUIG. She writes poetry and fiction; has made a number of short films and her artwork has been exhibited both internationally and at home.
Tim Dwyer lives in upstate New York but has extensive family collections in the west of Ireland. His poetry collection Smithy Of Our Longings- Poems From The Irish Diaspora will be published by Lapwing Publications this month. His poetry has also appeared in such journals as Southword, The Stinging Fly, Boyne Berries, and Galway’s own Skylight 47 poetry paper.
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| Seán Lysaght |
Seán Lysaght was born in 1957 and grew up in Limerick. He now
lectures at the Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology and lives with his wife
Jessica in Westport, County Mayo. His first collection of poetry, Noah’s
Irish Ark was published in 1989, followed by The Clare Island Survey
(Gallery, 1991). His work on the life and writings of Robert Lloyd Praeger:
The Life of a Naturalist was published by Four Courts Press in 1998.
His verse narrative of the life of Edmund Spenser was published under his own
imprint in 2011. His subsequent poetry collections, Scarecrow (1998), Erris (2002), The Mouth of a River (2007), his translations after Goethe, Venetian Epigrams and Selected Poems are published by The Gallery Press. His most recent collection Carnival Masks was published in 2014. In 2007 he received the O’Shaughnessy Award
for Poetry.
As usual there will be an
open-mic after the Featured Readers have finished. New readers are always most
welcome at the open-mic. 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, Poetry Ireland & The Arts Council.
Over The Edge acknowledges the ongoing generous financial support of Galway City Council, Poetry Ireland & The Arts Council.