July Zoom Over The Edge: Open Reading with Veronica Volkow, Ailbhe Darcy, Kim Moore PLUS open-mic

After the big success of the June reading, the July ‘Over The Edge: Open Reading’ takes place on Zoom on Thursday, July 9th  at the usual Over The Edge time 6.30-8.00pm (local Galway time). The Featured Readers are Veronica Volkow, Ailbhe Darcy, & Kim Moore. There will, as always at Over The Edge: Open Readings, be an open-mic after the Featured Readers have finished. New readers are always especially welcome at the open-mic. Anyone interested in taking part in the open-mic should text Kevin Higgins on 087-6431748 or email over-the-edge-openreadings@hotmail.com between 6pm and 6.30pm on the evening of the reading. The MC for the evening will be Susan Millar DuMars. 

Join us at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7389013549

Meeting ID: 738 901 3549

                                     

Kim Moore

Kim Moore was born in 1981 and lives and works in Cumbria. She is one of the leading newer voices in British poetry. Kim Moore’s first collection The Art of Falling (Seren, 2015) won the 2016 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. She won a Northern Writers Award in 2014, an Eric Gregory Award in 2011 and the Geoffrey Dearmer Prize in 2010.  Her pamphlet If We Could Speak Like Wolves was a winner in the 2012 Poetry Business Pamphlet Competition.  She is a PhD candidate at Manchester Metropolitan University, working on her second collection and is one of the judges for the 2020 Forward Prizes for Poetry.

Ailbhe Darcy

Ailbhe Darcy was born in Dublin in 1981 and brought up there. She studied for her PhD and MFA at the University of Notre Dame in the US, and taught there and at the University of Münster in Germany. She is now a lecturer in creative writing at Cardiff University. She has published her poetry in Ireland, Britain and the US. Selections of her work are included in the Bloodaxe anthologies Identity Parade and Voice Recognition, and in her pamphlet A Fictional Dress (tall-lighthouse, 2009). Imaginary Menagerie (Bloodaxe Books, 2011), her first book-length collection, was shortlisted for Ireland's dlr Strong Award at Poetry Now / Mountains to Sea. A collaboration with S.J. Fowler, Subcritical Texts, was published by Gorse in 2017. Her second collection, Insistence, was published by Bloodaxe in 2018 and was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2018 and for the Irish Times Poetry Now Award 2019. She has been described as “the best Irish poet of her generation”.

Veronica Volkov

Veronica Volkow lives in Mexico City and is a poet, and travel writer. She is also the great-granddaughter of co-leader of the Russian Revolution Leon Trotsky. She currently works as a professor and senior researcher at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). She has a master's degree in comparative literature from Columbia University, a doctorate in comparative literature from UNAM, and a master's degree in Art History from UNAM. She received the Pellicer Prize for published work in 2004 and the José Revueltas Prize for Literary Essay in 2005. Her line of research is in hermeneutics of art and literature; as a teacher she specializes in poetry-painting relationships. She published a chronicle about daily life in apartheid South Africa, Diary of a Trip in 1988. As a poet her collections include: La Sibila de Cumas, 1974; Ink Coast, 1979; The beginning, 1983; Los caminos, 1989. Arcanos, 1996;  Gold of the Wind, 2003; and Arcana, United Kindom, Shearsman Books, 2009. Her poems have been widely anthologised and translated. Veronica will be reading her poems in both English translation and the original Spanish.

Over The Edge is inviting you to the July Over The Edge: Open Reading on Zoom. Thursday, July 9^th, 6.30-8pm

Join The Over The Edge Zoom Meeting at

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7389013549

Meeting ID: 738 901 3549

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.

Final Over The Edge: Open Reading of 2015 with leading UK poet Kim Moore, Felicia McCarthy, & Michael Gallagher

The December ‘Over The Edge: Open Reading’ takes place in Galway City Library on Thursday, December 17^th, 6.30-8.00pm. The Featured Readers are Kim Moore, Michael Gallagher, & Felicia ‘Flish’ McCarthy. There will as usual be an open-mic after the Featured Readers have finished. New readers are especially welcome. The Over The Edge Christmas celebration will take place afterwards. 

Felicia ‘Flish’ McCarthy took an Honours BA and MA in English Language and Literature at Trinity College Dublin. She has lived in Dublin, Denver, & now Salthill where she works as a professional Energy Medicine Practitioner when she is not fooling around with words. She is a regular participant in poetry workshops at Galway Arts Centre. She was shortlisted for the 2015 Baillieborough Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared in publications such as Boyne Berries, Infusions, This Never Happened II, and the RNLI anthology The Sea. 

Before switching to prose, Michael Gallagher enjoyed considerable success as a scriptwriter. He has written comedy for the both the BBC and Channel Four and has co-written several plays. In 2014 he won the Galway’s Great Read creative writing competition with his short story, ‘First Light’. Michael is a modest man not given to outlandish boasts or hyperbole and is currently employed as editor of the breathtakingly brilliant free Galway magazine, Westword.

Kim Moore was born in 1981 and lives and works in Cumbria. She is one of the leading new voices in British poetry. Her first full length collection The Art of Falling was published by Seren in April 2015.  She won a New Writing North Award in 2014, an Eric Gregory Award in 2011 and the Geoffrey Dearmer Prize in 2012. In 2014 she was Poet in Residence for Ilkley Literature Festival and Digital Poet in Residence for The Poetry School. Her first pamphlet If We Could Speak Like Wolves was a winner in The Poetry Business Pamphlet Competition, judged by Carol Ann Duffy.  If We Could Speak Like Wolves was chosen as an Independent Book of the Year in 2012 and was shortlisted for the Michael Marks Pamphlet Award and the Lakeland Book of the Year Award. Her work has been anthologised in Salt’s Best British Poetry 2012 and Oxfam’s Lung Jazz.  

As usual there will be an open-mic after the Featured Readers have finished. New readers are always most 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.

 

Over The Edge just received the great news that the Arts Council are increasing the funding we will receive for our literary events in 2016 by 75% compared to this year.