July Over The Edge Writers' Gathering with Mary O'Donoghue, Eamonn Wall, Elizabeth Reapy, & James Finnegan

July Over The Edge Writers’ Gathering presents readings by Mary O’Donoghue, Eamonn Wall, Elizabeth Reapy, & James Finnegan.

The July Over The Edge Writers’ Gathering presents an exciting variety of poetry and fiction. The event will take place on Thursday, July 12th, 6.30pm at Galway City Library, St. Augustine Street. All are welcome. There is no cover charge.

Mary O’Donoghue’s stories have most recently appeared in Granta, The Georgia Review, The Kenyon Review, The Irish Times, Stinging Fly, Dublin Review, and elsewhere. Her novel Before the House Burns was published by The Lilliput Press in 2010. Awards and recognition for her fiction include the Irish Times prize for short fiction responding to economic crisis; two Massachusetts Cultural Council fellowships; and longlisting for the Sunday Times/EFG Short Story Award. She is Fiction Editor at the journal AGNI, and Professor of English in the Arts and Humanities division of Babson College, Massachusetts. She lives with her husband and step-daughter in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

Eamonn Wall is the author of Junction City: New and Selected Poems 1990-2015 (Salmon Poetry, Ireland, 2015), among other poetry publications. His prose books include Writing the Irish West: Ecologies and Traditions (Notre Dame, 2011) and From the Sin-é Café to the Black Hills: Notes on the New Irish (Wisconsin, 2000). He recently co-edited Coleridge and Contemplation, published by POETICA (Tokyo). Articles, essays, and poems have been published in The Irish Times, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Irish Literary Supplement, New Hibernia Review and other publications. An Enniscorthy native, Eamonn Wall lives in St. Louis, Missouri, where he is the Smurfit-Stone Corporation Professor of Irish Studies/International Studies & Programs at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. He is a past-president of the American Conference for Irish Studies and is currently a vice-president of Irish American Writers & Artists Inc.

Dublin-born James Finnegan has been highly commended in the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Competition, short-listed in Over The Edge New Writer of the Year, short-listed in The Canterbury Anthology for Poet of the Year, and published in The Irish Times – Hennessy New Irish Writing, Poetry Ireland Review, CYPHERS, Skylight47, North West Words, and the anthology The Best New British & Irish Poets 2018. Finnegan, who holds a doctor of philosophy in living educational theory, is married to Livinia and lives outside Letterkenny in the countryside. His first full collection of poems, Half-Open Door, is published by Eyewear Publishing and was launched in Listowel on June 1^st 2018.

Elizabeth (EM) Reapy is originally from Claremorris County Mayo. She currently a Dublin UNESCO City of Literature Writer-In-Residence. Her debut novel Red Dirt is published by Head of Zeus and was awarded Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, September 2017. Elizabeth gave her first major reading at the February 2010 Over The Edge: Open Reading.

Over The Edge acknowledges the ongoing financial support of the Arts Council,

Poetry Ireland, and Galway City Council.

June Over The Edge Writers' Gathering presents Louis de Paor, Eamonn Wall, Anne Tannam, Brian Kirk, Alan McMonagle, Carlos Reyes in SKYLIGHT 47 SPECIAL

June Over The Edge Writers’ Gathering

at Galway City Library

presents readings by

Louis de Paor, Eamonn Wall,

Anne Tannam, Brian Kirk,

Alan McMonagle,  Carlos Reyes

in a special

SHOWCASE READING

for contributors to

Skylight 47

probably Ireland’s most interesting poetry publication 
THURSDAY, JUNE 25th, 6.30-8PM 

The June Over The Edge Writers’ Gathering presents a special showcase reading by contributors to Skylight 47, probably Ireland’s most interesting poetry publication. Those reading their poetry on the evening will be Carlos Reyes, Alan McMonagle, Brian Kirk, Anne Tannam, Eamonn Wall, & Louis de Paor, The event will take place at Galway City Library, St. Augustine Street, Galway on Thursday, June 25th, 6.30-8pm. All are welcome. There is no cover charge. 

Louis de Paor

Louis de Paor is one of Ireland's leading Irish-language poets, and was a key figure in the Irish language poetry renaissance of the 1980s and 90s. He has worked closely on English translations of his poetry, with his co-translators fully engaging with the original poem in Irish. Louis is director of the Centre for Irish Studies at NUI Galway. His most recent publication The Brindled Cat and the Nightingale’s Tongue – an Irish-English bilingual edition of his poems in the original Irish and in translation – was co-published by Bloodaxe and Cló Iar-Chonnachta. Louis is interviewed, by Deirdre Kearney, in the current issue of Skylight 47.

Eamonn Wall

A native of Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford, Eamonn Wall lives in Missouri, where he is Smurfit-Stone Corporation Professor of Irish Studies/Professor of English at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. He is the author of Writing the Irish West: Ecologies and Traditions which was published by University of Notre Dame Press in 2011. His most recent publication Junction City: New & Selected Poems was published earlier this year by Salmon Poetry. Kevin Higgins’s Galway Advertiser review of that book can be read here http://www.advertiser.ie/galway/article/77676/poet-leaves-enniscorthy-to-drive-around-america . Eamonn was a contributor to issue no. 3 of Skylight 47.

Anne Tannam’s has poems published, or forthcoming, in Poetry Ireland Review, The Moth, The Poetry Bus, Prairie Schooner, Literature Today, and several anthologies. Take This Life, her first book of poems, was published by 6^th House in 2011. She has performed her work at the Electric Picnic, Cúirt, and other festivals and is co-founder of the Dublin Writers’ Forum. Anne is a contributor to the current issue of Skylight 47.

Brian Kirk is an award winning poet and short-story writer from Clondalkin, Dublin. He was selected for the Poetry Ireland Introductions Series in 2013, and highly commended in the 2014 Patrick Kavanagh Award. His poems have appeared in many journals and anthologies. He is a members of the Hibernian Poetry Workshop. Brian is a contributor to the current issue of Skylight 47.

Alan McMonagle lives in Galway. His poems have appeared in The Shop, The Moth, The Stony Thursday Book, and Crannóg. He has published two collections of short stories Liar Liar (Wordsonthestreet, 2009) & Psychotic Episodes (Arlen House, 2013). Last year, his radio play, Oscar Night, was produced and broadcast as part of RTE’s Drama on One series. Alan has contributed poems to previous issues of Skylight 47; his review of Alan Jude Moore’s poetry collection Zinger is in the current issue.

Carlos Reyes is a noted Portland poet and translator, world traveller and story teller.  His latest books of poetry are Pomegranate, Sister of the Heart  and The Book of Shadows: New and Selected Poems.  He is currently travelling in Ireland to promote his first book of prose, The Keys To The Cottage, Stories from the West of Ireland, which tells the story of his life in Co. Clare over the last 40 years. Carlos has had fellowships from the Oregon Arts Commission, Yaddo (New York), Fundacion Valparaiso (Spain), Heinrich Boll Association (Ireland), Island Institute (Sitka, Alaska), as well as been poet-in-residence at Joshua Tree National Park, Acadia National Park, and Devil's Tower National Monument. He was a contributor to issue no. 3 of Skylight 47. 

There is no entrance fee. 

For further information contact 087-6431748.

 Over The Edge acknowledges the ongoing financial support 

of the Arts Council, Poetry Ireland, and Galway City Council.

Eamonn Wall launches Second Issue of Skylight 47-probably Ireland’s most interesting poetry publication

July Over The Edge Writers’ Gathering

at Galway City Library

presents The Launch

by Eamonn Wall,

Smurfit-Stone Professor of Irish Studies 

at the University of Missouri-St. Louis,

of the second issue of Skylight 47

probably Ireland’s most interesting poetry publication

The July Over The Edge Writers’ Gathering will see the launch of the second issue of Skylight 47, probably Ireland’s most interesting poetry publication, with SPECIAL GUESTS EAMONN WALL & PATRICK KEHOE. All contributors to this issue of Skylight 47 are invited to come along and read their poem from the magazine. Eamonn Wall will officially launch the new issue and read some of his own poems. There will is also be a reading by poet Patrick Kehoe. 

The event will take place at Galway City Library, St. Augustine Street on Thursday, July 11^th, 6.30-8pm. All are welcome. There is no cover charge. Skylight 47 is generously sponsored by Food 4 Thought. Copies of the magazine will be on sale on the evening and can also be purchased here http://www.overtheedgeliteraryevents.blogspot.ie/2012/11/skylight-47-possibly-irelands-most.html. Skylight 47 is edited by Nicki Griffin, Kevin 0’Shea & Susan Lindsay, participants in the Advanced Poetry Workshop at Galway Arts Centre. 

A native of Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford, Eamonn Wall lives in Missouri, where he is Smurfit-Stone Corporation Professor of Irish Studies/Professor of English at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. His poetry has been included in anthologies in Ireland and the United States including The Book of Irish-American Poetry from the 18th Century to the Present & Irish Writing in the Twentieth Century: a Reader. Eamonn’s essays, articles, and reviews in The Irish Times, New Hibernia Review, The Washington Post & Chicago Tribune. Through his involvement in the Launchpad and Scallta Media initiatives, which he helped set up to encourage the development of young writers and artists in Co. Wexford, he has continued to play a role in the artistic life of Co. Wexford. Sailing Lake Mareotis, Eamonn’s fifth collection of poems, was published by Salmon Poetry in 2011. He is also the author of Writing the Irish West: Ecologies and Traditions which was published by University of Notre Dame Press in 2011. Eamonn’s New and Selected Poems will be published by Salmon next year.

Patrick Kehoe's first poems were published by the late James Liddy in broadsheets and issues of The Gorey Detail. Early poems of his were also published in the Irish Press. In recent times his work has appeared in The Irish Times, Enniscorthy Echo, Natural Bridge, Cyphers and The Scaldy Detail. His debut collection, Its Words You Want was published by Salmon Poetry in July 2011. Paddy will read from his debut collection on the evening. http://www.salmonpoetry.com/bookshop-search.php

Paddy Kehoe

There is no entrance fee.

For further information 087-6431748.

Over The Edge acknowledges the ongoing generous financial support

of Galway City Council & The Arts Council.