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| Caitríona Ó'Reilly |
The September ‘Over The Edge: Open Reading’ takes place
in Galway City Library on Thursday, September 29th, 6.30-8.00pm.
The Featured Readers are Caitriona O’Reilly, Colin Dardis, & James
Anthony. The centre piece of the evening will be the launch of issue seven
of Skylight 47, the exciting bi-annual poetry paper from the Skylight Poets,
which will be on sale on the evening. The publication will be launched by
Caitriona O’Reilly. Skylight 47 is based in Galway and publishes
poems by poets from all around the globe; all poets are welcome to submit poems
for consideration for future issues. For details on how to take out a
subscription to Skylight 47 see https://skylight47poetry.wordpress.com/buy-skylight-47/.
The evening will also see the announcement of the shortlist for this year’s
Over The Edge New Writer of the Year competition, judged by fiction writer
and poet Niamh Boyce.
James
Anthony
is a native of Athlone. He has worked in catering for most of his life and has
always enjoyed writing in his spare time. In January 2015, he took the
train to Galway to attend Kevin Higgins's creative writing class at G.T.I. and
has been a regular participant in Kevin’s poetry workshops ever since. This
year he has published work in Skylight47, the Athlone Advertiser
and a poetry anthology, Open Your Eyes edited by Kevin Watts.
Catríona O'Reilly was born Dublin in 1973, grew up in Wicklow and Dublin, and now lives in Lincoln. She studied archaeology and English at Trinity College Dublin, where she wrote a doctoral thesis on American literature; she has also held the Harper-Wood Studentship from St John's College, Cambridge. Her first collection The Nowhere Birds was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 2001, and won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature in 2002 (given to the best new book by any Irish writer). Her second collection, The Sea Cabinet (Bloodaxe Books, 2006), was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and was shortlisted for the Irish Times Poetry Now Award in 2007. Her third collection, Geis (Bloodaxe Books, UK; Wake Forest University Press, USA, 2015), won the Irish Times Poetry Now Award 2016 and was also a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. She is a freelance writer and critic, has written for BBC Radio 4, translated from the Galician of María do Cebreiro, and published some fiction. She has collaborated with artist Isabel Nolan, edited several issues of Poetry Ireland Review, and was a contributing editor of the Irish poetry journal Metre.
Colin Dardis is a poet,
editor, freelance arts facilitator, creative writing tutor and mental health
advocate, based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. His work has been
published widely throughout Ireland, the UK and USA. He
is one of Eyewear Publishing’s Best New British and Irish Poets 2016, and is
currently an ACES (Artists Career Enhancement Scheme) 2015-16
recipient from Arts Council Northern Ireland. Colin is also online editor for
Lagan Press.
Catríona O'Reilly was born Dublin in 1973, grew up in Wicklow and Dublin, and now lives in Lincoln. She studied archaeology and English at Trinity College Dublin, where she wrote a doctoral thesis on American literature; she has also held the Harper-Wood Studentship from St John's College, Cambridge. Her first collection The Nowhere Birds was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 2001, and won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature in 2002 (given to the best new book by any Irish writer). Her second collection, The Sea Cabinet (Bloodaxe Books, 2006), was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and was shortlisted for the Irish Times Poetry Now Award in 2007. Her third collection, Geis (Bloodaxe Books, UK; Wake Forest University Press, USA, 2015), won the Irish Times Poetry Now Award 2016 and was also a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. She is a freelance writer and critic, has written for BBC Radio 4, translated from the Galician of María do Cebreiro, and published some fiction. She has collaborated with artist Isabel Nolan, edited several issues of Poetry Ireland Review, and was a contributing editor of the Irish poetry journal Metre.
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.