The
November Over The Edge: Open Reading takes place in Galway City Library on Thursday,
November 23rd, 6.30-8.00pm. The Featured Readers are Penelope Shuttle, Ursula
Shields-Huemer, & Gillian Hamill.
The centre piece of the evening will be the launch of issue nine 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 Penelope Shuttle. 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 here.
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| Gillian Hamill |
Originally
from the village of Eglinton in Derry, Gillian Hamill has lived in Dublin for the past 13 years
(intermingled with stints in Galway, Waterford and Nice). She has a BA in
English Studies from Trinity College, Dublin and a MA in Journalism from NUI
Galway. She is currently the editor of trade publication, ShelfLife
magazine and has acted in a number of theatre productions. Gillian
started writing poetry in late 2014.
Ursula Shields-Huemer is Austrian and has lived in
Ireland for 25 years. She is a psychotherapist and Jungian analyst. Her poems
have grown from a longtime engagement with language and creativity –
supported by classes with Kevin Higgins and Susan Millar DuMars. Ursula was
recently invited to present poems at a conference on artist Caspar Walter Rauh.
She was shortlisted for the 2017 Over the Edge New Writer’s award.
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| Penelope Shuttle |
Penelope Shuttle
has lived in Cornwall since 1970, and is the widow of the poet Peter Redgrove.
Her first collection of poems, The Orchard Upstairs (1981) was followed
by six other books from Oxford University Press, and then A Leaf Out of His
Book (1999) from Oxford Poets/Carcanet, and Redgrove’s Wife (2006)
and Sandgrain and Hourglass (2010) from Bloodaxe Books. Redgrove’s
Wife was shortlisted for both the Forward Prize and the T.S. Eliot Prize in
2006. Sandgrain Her retrospective, Unsent: New & Selected Poems
1980-2012 (Bloodaxe Books, 2012), drew on ten collections published over
three decades. Her most recent collection, Will you walk a little faster?,
was published by Bloodaxe in May . First published as a novelist, her fiction
includes All the Usual Hours of Sleeping (1969), and Rainsplitter in
the Zodiac Garden (1977).With Peter Redgrove, she is co-author of The
Wise Wound: Menstruation and Everywoman (1978) and Alchemy for Women:
Personal Transformation Through Dreams and the Female Cycle (1995).
Shuttle’s work is widely anthologised and has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and
4, and her poem ‘Outgrown’ was used recently in a radio and television
commercial. She is current Chair of the Falmouth Poetry Group, one of the
longest-running poetry workshops in the U.K.
Over The Edge acknowledges the ongoing generous financial support of Galway City Council, Poetry Ireland, & The Arts Council.