The
January ‘Over The Edge: Open Reading’ takes place in Galway City Library
on Thursday, January 24th, 6.30-8.00pm. The Featured Readers
are Sarah Padden, Jonathan Harper, & Tim Cumming. The evening will also see the
launch, by Tim Cumming, of issue eleven of perhaps Ireland’s most exciting,
informative, and accessible poetry magazine Skylight 47. There will
be readings by contributors. All welcome. This reading marks the sixteenth anniversary
of the first Over The Edge reading in Galway City Library.
Sarah
Padden is of Irish descent and was raised in
West Yorkshire. She returned to live in her dad’s county of Mayo over a decade
ago and moved to Galway, to attend NUIG. Since living in Galway, she has
attended Kevin Higgins’s poetry workshop and many Over The Edge events. Her
poetry has been published in the 2017 anthology Washing Windows? Irish Women Write Poetry (Arlen House). She has
also had poems published in Skylight 47,
ROPES, A New Ulster, & Freehand.
She won the June 2017 Galway Poetry Slam and was shortlisted for both the Over The
Edge New Writer of the Year 2017 competition and the Poems for Patience
Competition 2018.
Jonathan Harper
has participated in creative writing classes with Susan Millar
DuMars at Galway Technical Institute and is currently a participant in Susan’s
Advanced Fiction Writing class. He arrived in Galway from the UK via a
short stay of a few years in Australia. Having held many jobs since leaving
school he is currently an engineer. Writing influences are varied, from J.K
Rowling (non Harry Potter) to Jim Crace. He aims to finish his first novel this
year.
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| Tim Cumming |
Tim
Cumming’s first collection, The
Miniature Estate was published in 1991, and subsequent books include Apocalypso (1992, 1999, 2004), Contact Print (2002), The Rumour (2004), The Rapture (2011), Etruscan
Miniatures (2012) and Rebel Angels in
the Mind Shop (2015). He has made a series of acclaimed film poems and
exhibited poems and paintings at Sladers Yard gallery in Dorset, and wrote and
narrated the acclaimed Hawkwind: Do Not Panic BBC documentary. His work
has appeared in three editions of The
Forward Book of Poetry, its 2004 Best of the Decade anthology, and Bloodaxe
Books’ 2010 anthology, Identity Parade.
He lives in London.
There will be a limited open-mic after the Featured Readers and Skylight 47 contributors have finished. New readers are always especially welcome. The MC for the evening will be Susan Millar DuMars. For further details phone 087-6431748. Afterwards we will celebrate Over The Edge’s sixteenth birthday.
Over The Edge acknowledges the ongoing generous financial support of Galway City Council, Poetry Ireland, & The Arts Council.