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| MC for evening Kevin Higgins |
The March Over The Edge Writers’ Gathering presents an
exciting variety of poetry, including the Galway launch of new poetry
collections by Katherine Noone and Jean Folan. There will also be readings by prominent
British performance poet and literary activist Steve Pottinger and renowned Mayo poet and short story writer Ger Reidy. The event will take place at
The Kitchen @ The Museum, Spanish Arch, Galway on Friday, March 10th,
8pm. All are welcome. There is no cover charge.
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| Katherine Noon pictured centre |
Katherine
Noone’s
poems have appeared in Boyne Berries, Crannóg,
The Galway Review, Linnets Wings, Orbis , Skylight
47. She was shortlisted for the Vallum (Canada) poetry competition in
2012 and Poem for Patience 2015. She attends Kevin Higgins advanced
poetry workshop in Galway. Katherine’s debut poetry collection, Keeping Watch, is just published by
Lapwing Publications and will be launched on the evening.
Jean
Folan
was born in Galway in 1951. She lives in Inishcrone, Co Sligo and is a graduate
of the MA in Writing at NUI Galway. Her
first collection of poems Between Time was published by Lapwing in 2013.
Jean Folan was shortlisted for the Cúirt New Writing Prize 2007, and the Over
the Edge Cúirt Showcase 2008, and was a featured reader at Over the Edge in 2007.
She was the winner of the Impromptu Haiku, Culture Night 2010, Ballina Arts
Centre, Co. Mayo and runner-up at Culture Night 2012, Kenny’s Bookshop, Galway.
Confluence of Wakes, Jean’s second collection of poetry, was recently published
by Lapwing Publications and will have its Galway launch on the evening.
Steve Pottinger is a British performance
poet and author based in Wolverhampton. He has gigged all over the UK in pubs,
clubs, and at festivals. He wrote a letter to Cafè Nero about their tax
avoidance which went viral, and has co-written the autobiographies of two punk
legends. His volume of poems 'more bees, bigger bonnets' was chosen by
campaigning economist Richard Murphy as one of his books of the year in the TES.
He’s currently collaborating with two other West Midlands poets on some
exciting projects, plotting his fifth volume of poetry, working on another punk
biography, and being inspired by the imagination, resilience, and determination
of people in the face of greed and injustice.
Ger Reidy was born near
Westport, Co. Mayo. He has won several national poetry competitions and has
been the recipient of a number of bursaries and residencies sponsored by the
Arts Council and Mayo County Council. Dedalus Press published his debut
collection, Pictures from a Reservation,
in 1998 and his second collection, Drifting
Under the Moon, in 2010. His third collection, Before Rain, was published by Arlen House in 2015 and was
shortlisted for the Pigott Poetry Prize at Listowel Writers' Week. His poetry
has been published in many literary journals, both at home and abroad and he
has read at numerous literary festivals. Since 2012 Ger has judged the Westport
Arts Festival poetry competition. His debut short fiction collection. Jobs for a Wet Day, was published in
2015 and was long listed for the Edge Hill Prize 2016.
Over The Edge acknowledges the
ongoing financial support of the Arts Council,
Poetry
Ireland, and Galway City Council.