The March ‘Over The Edge: Open Reading’ takes place in Galway City Library on Thursday, March 31st, 6.30-8.00pm. The Featured Readers are Jane Clarke, Molly Twomey, & Eileen Keane. There will as usual be an open-mic after the Featured Readers have finished. New readers are especially welcome.
Eileen P Keane
is from North Connemara, Co. Galway. She is currently studying for an MA in
Writing at NUI Galway. Eileen has
written and performed for theatre and stage and her CD Spaces was released in
2014. She writes Poetry, Memoir and non-fiction. She is also a
Singer/Songwriter and has performed at the: Electric Picnic, Lunasa Festival
Sligo, and at the Clifden Arts Festival. Her songs have featured on RTE Radio
and Television. Her poems appear in the latest edition of the Galway Review and her Flash Fiction was shortlisted for
Allingham Festival 2015.
Born on the twenty sixth of February
1996, Molly Twomey is currently in
her second year of a Bachelor of Arts degree with Creative Writing in NUIG. She
is originally from the historical and picturesque town of Lismore, Co.
Waterford. Winner of the Blackwater Community School Creativity Award
2013, she writes incisively about her observations, in particular how
humans relate to one another. Molly is passionately concerned with regard to
health, food, nature, conservation, inter relational
dynamics and compassion or lack thereof.
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| Jane Clarke |
Originally
from a farm in Roscommon, Jane Clarke now lives near Glenmalure, Co. Wicklow. She won
the 2014 Listowel Writers' Week Poetry Collection Award and also the 2014
Trocaire/Poetry Ireland Competition. She also won the inaugural Poems for
Patience, 2013; Listowel Writers' Week (2007) and the iYeats (2010) and was
shortlisted for the 2013 & 2014 Hennessy Literary Awards. She has had poems
published in Acumen, Agenda, Abridged, The North, The Rialto, Ambit, One,
Poetry Wales, The Irish Times, The Irish Independent - New Irish Writing,
Mslexia, and many more. Jane Clarke's first collection, The River, is published by
Bloodaxe Books. Kevin Higgins’s
Galway Advertiser review of The River
can be read here http://www.advertiser.ie/galway/article/80764/jane-clarke-so-much-more-than-a-pastoral-poet
Over The Edge acknowledges the ongoing generous financial support of Galway City Council, Poetry Ireland & The Arts Council.