The first ‘Over The Edge: Open Reading’ after the summer break takes place in Galway City Library on Thursday, August 31st, 6.30-8.00pm. The Featured Readers are Ailbhe DArcy, Art Ó Súilleabháin, & Bobbie Sparrow. There will as usual be an open-mic after the Featured Readers have finished. The evening will also see the announcement of the long list for the 2017 Over The Edge New Writer of The Year competition which received a large number of entries again this year.
Bobbie Sparrow is a poetry writing Psychotherapist living in Co.
Galway. She was long listed for the Over The Edge new writer's award
2015/16 and short listed for the Galway University Poetry Competition 2016. Her
poems have been published in Orbis, Picaroon,
and The Rose Magazine. Bobbie has taken part in many poetry workshops with Kevin Higgins and
Jim Bennet of Poetry Kit. She is a member of the online poetry group, Poets
Abroad. Bobbie has found a good poem to be a good friend.
Art Ó Súilleabháin was born in Galway, spent a few years in Boston but
now lives in Corr na Móna, in north Connemara. He has published a number of
books for children as Gaeilge but is now working on poems and stories in
English for adults. His work has been regularly broadcast on RTE Radio One’s Sunday Miscellany. He lives on the
shores of Lough Corrib with his artist son Fiachra, one of his six children.
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| Ailbhe Darcy |
Ailbhe Darcy grew
up in Dublin, and has since lived in the United States, Germany and Wales,
where she teaches creative writing at Cardiff University. Selections of her
work are included in the Bloodaxe anthologies Identity Parade and Voice
Recognition, and in the Wake Forest
Series of Irish Poetry, Vol 4. Her
first full-length collection was ImaginaryMenagerie,
published by Bloodaxe Books in 2011. A collaboration with S.J. Fowler,
Subcritical Tests, was published by Gorse in June 2017. Recent poems have
appeared in POETRY, Poetry Ireland Review
and Poetry Wales, and a second
solo collection, Insistence, is
forthcoming from Bloodaxe in 2018.
As usual there will be an open-mic after the Featured
Readers have finished. New readers are always most welcome. The evening will
also see the announcement of the long list for this year’s Over The Edge New
Writer of The Year competition, which has again received a very healthy
number of entries this year.
The MC for the evening will be Susan Millar DuMars. For
further details phone 087-6431748.
Over The Edge acknowledges the ongoing financial support of Galway City Council, Poetry Ireland, & The Arts Council.
Over The Edge acknowledges the ongoing financial support of Galway City Council, Poetry Ireland, & The Arts Council.