The May Over The Edge Writers’ Gathering presents an
exciting variety of poetry, including the launch of Aoife Reilly’s debut poetry collection. There will also be readings by the winners of
this year’s Poems for Patience
competition, Lorna Shaughnessy and Marie Cadden, and American poets Ron Houchin and Art Stringer. The event will take place at The Kitchen @ The
Museum, Spanish Arch, Galway on Friday, May 12th, 8pm. All
are welcome. There is no cover charge.
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| Aoife Reilly |
Aoife Reilly is originally from Laois, but has been living in Galway since 2012. She
works as a psychotherapist and teacher and has been attending Kevin Higgins’s
poetry workshops at Galway Arts Centre since Autumn 2013. Aoife’s poetry has
been published in Crannóg, Skylight 47, on the Poethead website, and in a wide variety of other poetry magazines
recently. Aoife was a Featured Reader at the August 2015 Over The Edge: Open
Reading and was also selected to read at the 2016 Cúirt Festival / Over The
Edge New Writers’ Showcase. Her debut poetry collection Lilac and Gooseberries is just
published by Lapwing Press.
Art Stringer is the author of the poetry collections
Channel Markers (Wesleyan University Press), Human Costume (Salmon Poetry) and Late Breaking, also published by Salmon. His work has appeared in
such journals as The Nation, Antaeus, The Ohio Review, Denver Quarterly,
Prairie Schooner, Shenandoah, Poetry Northwest, and in Backcountry:
Contemporary Writing in West Virginia. He also edited and introduced an
edition of Louise McNeill’s Paradox Hill (West Virginia University Press). For
twenty-five years, he taught writing and literature at Marshall University. Art
will be reading from his new poetry collection which is just published by
Salmon Poetry.
Lorna
Shaughnessy
was born in Belfast and lives in Co. Galway, Ireland. She has published three
poetry collections, Torching the Brown River, Witness Trees, & Anchored (Salmon,
2008, 2011, & 2015), and her work was selected for the Forward Book of
Poetry, 2009. She is also a translator of Spanish and South American Poetry. Her
most recent translation was of poetry by Galician writer Manuel Rivas, The
Disappearance of Snow (Shearsman Press, 2012), which was shortlisted for the UK
Poetry Society’s 2013 Popescu Prize for translation. She lectures in Spanish
and Creative Writing in NUI, Galway. Lorna is the joint winner of this year’s Poems
for Patience competition for her poem ‘The Dual Citizen’ which is now
framed and displayed in University Hospital Galway.
Ron Houchin was born in San Diego,
California, and raised from the age of three in Huntington, West
Virginia. He comes from a family of factory workers, coal miners, and
farmers who have always lived in Appalachia. For thirty years he taught
in an Ohio public school in the southernmost tip of Ohio. The Quiet Jars, a new and
selected poetry collection, was published in 2013 by Salmon Publishing and a
short story collection, Tales Out Of
School, was published, also in 2013, from Wind Publications of Kentucky. Ron
lives in a haunted house, built by the grandson of an ex-slave, on the banks of
the Ohio River. He will be reading from his latest poetry collection which is
just published by Salmon Poetry.
Marie Cadden lives
in Spiddal, Co. Galway. Her acclaimed debut poetry collection Gynaecologist in The Jacuzzi was
published last year by Salmon Poetry. Winner of the Cuirt 2011 New Writing Prize for
Poetry, Runner-Up 2012 Westport Arts Festival Poetry Prize, Third
Prize 2012 Francis Ledwidge Poetry Competition. Shortlisted for Desmond
O'Grady Poetry Competition 2012, Bradshaw Books/Cork Literary Review Manuscript
Competition 2011, Over the Edge New Writer of the Year Award 2010. Her poems have been published in The
Recorder (USA), THE SHOp, ROPES, Revival, Boyne Berries, and
the anthologies Mosaic
(2011), and Lady Gregory's Townhouse
(2009).
A co-editor of “Ireland’s most interesting poetry magazine” Skylight 47, Marie
is the joint winner of this year’s Poems
for Patience competition for her
poem ‘In Praise of Denial’ which is now framed and displayed in University
Hospital Galway.
Over The Edge acknowledges the
ongoing financial support of the Arts Council, Poetry
Ireland, and Galway City Council.