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The March ‘Over The Edge: Open Reading’ takes place in Galway City Library on Thursday, March 28th, 6.30-8.00pm. The Featured Readers are Mark Roper, Aelmuire Mullaney, & Anne Donnellan. There will as usual be an open-mic after the Featured Readers have finished. New readers are always especially welcome at the open-mic.
Anne Donnellan was brought up in Co. Clare and has
been living and working in Galway since
1980. Anne is engaged with human rights advocacy works in Age Action. She attends
the Kevin Higgins poetry workshops. Anne’s
poems have been published in ROPES, A New
Ulster, The Linnet’s Wings, the Clare Champion and the Galway City Tribune. She was shortlisted
in the Poems for Patience Competition 2018.
Aelmuire Mullaney was born in
Dublin, went to school in Galway, and now lives in Moycullen. She was brought
up bilingual – in Irish and English. She studied languages at NUI Galway, is fluent
in German and French, and has a diploma in Translation from the Institute of
Linguists in London. She loves reading, writing, theater and travel and walking
the prom in Galway. She writes fiction and is currently a participant in Susan
Millar DuMars’s Intermediate Creative Writing class at Galway Technical
Institute.
Mark Roper’s
latest collection Bindweed, Dedalus
Press (2017), was shortlisted for The Irish Times Poetry Now Award. A Gather of Shadow (2012) was also
shortlisted for that Award and won the Michael Hartnett Award in 2014. With
photographer Paddy Dwan, he has published 3 books, most recently Comeragh: Mountain, Coum, River, Rumour.
He has written the librettos for two operas composed by
Eric Sweeney. He is a former editor of Poetry
Ireland Review.
As usual there will be an open-mic after the Featured Readers have finished. New readers are always particularly welcome. 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.