July
Over The Edge Writers’ Gathering presents poetry by Roisín Tierney, Yvonne
Green, Yehuda Amichai, & Morag Anderson and the launch of Katherine Noone’s
new poetry collection.
The July Over The Edge Writers’
Gathering in association with the Yehuda
Amichai International Poetry Festival
presents an international poetry extravaganza. The event will take place on Thursday, July 11th, 8pm at The Kitchen @ The Museum, Spanish, Galway.
All are welcome. There is no cover charge. Yehuda Amichai (1924-2000) is widely
regarded as having been Israel’s leading poet.
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| Yehuda Amichai (1924-2000) |
Yvonne Green curates the
Yehuda Amichai International Poetry Festival. She was born in London in 1957,
into a multi lingual family of Central Asian descent (all 4 of her grandparents
left Boukhara in Uzbekistan in 1920), her father was born in Germany her mother
in Egypt. Yvonne is a poet and translator. Her new collection Jam & Jerusalem was published by
Smith/Doorstop in autumn 2018. As well as reading her own poetry on the
evening Yvonne will read her own favourite Yehuda Amichai poem.
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| Róisín Tierney |
Róisín Tierney is an Irish poet who taught English in Spain
for several years (Valladolid
and Granada) and is now based in
London. She read in Dublin as part of
the Poetry Ireland Introduction Series in June 2008 and also featured
as one of Ireland's 'Rising Poets' in Poetry Ireland Review in
2016. Her pamphlet, Dream Endings (Rack Press) won the 2012
Michael Marks Pamphlet Award. She has also won prizes in many national
competitions including the Strokestown, the Brendan Kennelly, the Bridport and
the Winchester Poetry Prize. She is a
Hawthornden Fellow and occasionally teaches at The Poetry School. Her debut
collection The Spanish-Italian Border
is published by Arc (2014). A more recent pamphlet Five Poems is published by Clutag Press. www.roisintierney.blogspot.com As well as
reading her own poetry on the evening Róisín will read her own favourite Yehuda
Amichai poem.
Morag Anderson lives in
Highland, Perthshire in Scotland with her husband, three children, two dogs,
and one cat. She has recently been a regular participant in Kevin Higgins’
online poetry workshop. Morag’s poem ‘Tricky Dicky’ was the over all winner in
the poetry section of the 2018 Over The Edge New Writer of The Year competition
and is published in the most recent issue of Skylight 47 (no. 11).
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| Katherine Noone (pictured centre) |
Katherine
Noone’s
poems have appeared in Boyne Berries, Crannóg,
The Galway Review, Linnets Wings, Orbis , Skylight
47. She was shortlisted for the Vallum (Canada) poetry competition in
2012 and Poem for Patience 2015. She attends Kevin Higgins advanced
poetry workshop in Galway. Katherine’s debut poetry collection, Keeping Watch, was published by Lapwing
Publications in 2017 and The Galway Advertiser said of it “Many of [Noone’s]
poems ache for a gone world, yet gracefully accept that world's passing.”
Her second collection ‘Out Here’, which is
published by Lapwing Press, will be launched on the evening.
AND A SPECIAL GUEST APPEARANCE by American poet Sandy Yannone: Sandra Yanonne grew up near the edge of the Atlantic Ocean off Long Island Sound in Old Saybrook, Connecticut. Her interest in the Titanic disaster of 1912 sparked a dialogue with Ireland, the country where Titanic was built (Belfast) and her last port of call (Cobh, formerly Queenstown), as well as with other international sites connected with the disaster. Her poems and book reviews have appeared in numerous print and online journals including Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, The Stony Thursday Book, Glass: A Poetry Journal, Women’s Review of Books, The Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide, CALYX: A Journal, and Seattle Review. She has written numerous articles about the intersections between poetry and social justice for the monthly newspaper Works in Progress. Her work has received the Academy of American Poets Prize and an AWP Intro Award. She earned her B.A. in writing and literature from Wheaton College (MA); an M.F.A. from Emerson College; and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Currently, she is the Faculty Director of the Writing Center at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA. Her poetry collection Boats for Women is just published by Salmon Poetry.
AND A SPECIAL GUEST APPEARANCE by American poet Sandy Yannone: Sandra Yanonne grew up near the edge of the Atlantic Ocean off Long Island Sound in Old Saybrook, Connecticut. Her interest in the Titanic disaster of 1912 sparked a dialogue with Ireland, the country where Titanic was built (Belfast) and her last port of call (Cobh, formerly Queenstown), as well as with other international sites connected with the disaster. Her poems and book reviews have appeared in numerous print and online journals including Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, The Stony Thursday Book, Glass: A Poetry Journal, Women’s Review of Books, The Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide, CALYX: A Journal, and Seattle Review. She has written numerous articles about the intersections between poetry and social justice for the monthly newspaper Works in Progress. Her work has received the Academy of American Poets Prize and an AWP Intro Award. She earned her B.A. in writing and literature from Wheaton College (MA); an M.F.A. from Emerson College; and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Currently, she is the Faculty Director of the Writing Center at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA. Her poetry collection Boats for Women is just published by Salmon Poetry.
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| Sandy Yannone |
The
evening will be MCed by Kevin Higgins who will read both a poem of his own
which was inspired by one of Yehuda Amichai’s as well as the original Yehuda
Amichai poem.
Over The Edge acknowledges the ongoing financial
support of the Arts Council, Poetry Ireland, and Galway City Council.
