The May
‘Over The Edge: Open Reading’ takes place in Galway City Library on Thursday,
May 31st, 6.30-8.00pm. The Featured Readers are Jacqueline Saphra, Jessamine
O’Connor, &Anne Walsh Donnelly. The evening will also see the
launch, by Jacqueline Saphra, of issue ten of perhaps Ireland’s most exciting,
informative, and accessible poetry magazine Skylight 47. There will be readings by contributors. All welcome.
Anne Walsh
Donnelly
lives in Mayo. Her work has been published in literary magazines such as
Crannog, Boyne Berries and Inside the Bell Jar. Her stories have been
shortlisted in competitions such as the Fish International Prize and RTE Radio
One Frances Mac Manus competition. She was highly commended in the OTE New
Writer of the Year (Poetry) Award in 2017 and recently won The Blue Nib Poetry
Chapbook competition.
Jessamine O
Connor
facilitates The Hermit Collective arts troupe, The Wrong Side Of The
Tracks Writers, and the Ballaghaderreen branch of Failte Isteach
conversational English classes. She won the iYeats, the Francis
Ledwidge, and the Poetry Ireland Butlers Café poetry competitions,
and was short-listed for the Hennessy, Over The Edge, Cuirt New Writing,
Galway Hospital Poems For Patience, Bradshaw Books, Leaf Books and Red
Line Book Festival competitions. She is currently promoting her
fifth chapbook Pact, and her first full collection of poems is coming
out with Salmon in early 2020. Jessamine’s website is http://www.jessamineoconnor.com
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| Jacqueline Saphra |
Jacqueline
Saphra’s The
Kitchen of Lovely Contraptions (flipped eye 2011) was shortlisted for
the Aldeburgh First Collection Prize. If I Lay on my Back I Saw Nothing
but Naked Women was published by (The Emma Press 2017) won the
Saboteur Award for Best Collaborative Work. In 2017 A Bargain with the
Light: Poems after Lee Miller was out from Hercules Editions and her
latest collection from Nine Arches Press, All My Mad Mothers, was
shortlisted for the 2017 T.S. Eliot prize. She lives in London and teaches at
The Poetry School. www.jacquelinesaphra.com
Copies of the new issue of Skylight 47 will be on sale on the evening. The MC for the evening will be Susan Millar DuMars. For further details phone 087-6431748
Copies of the new issue of Skylight 47 will be on sale on the evening. 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.