July Over The Edge Writers' Gathering with Alvy Carragher, Justin Conboy, Diane Fahey, & Leabhar na hAthghabhála

July Over The Edge Writers’ Gathering

at Galway City Library

presents readings by

Justin Conboy, & Diane Fahey,

a Showcase reading from the anthology

Leabhar na hAthghabhála

Poems of Repossession

(published by Bloodaxe

edited by Louis de Paor),

& the GALWAY LAUNCH

of Alvy Carragher’s debut poetry collection

Falling in love with broken things

(published by Salmon)

on Thursday, July 14^th,6.30pm

The July Over The Edge Writers’ Gathering presents readings by fiction writers, poets, and translators Justin Conboy, Diane Fahey, Micheál Ó Cuaig, Colbert Kearney, & the Galway launch of Alvy Carragher’s debut poetry collection Falling in love with broken things (published by Salmon). The event will take place at Galway City Library, St. Augustine Street on Thursday, July 14th, 6.30pm. All are welcome. There is no cover charge.

Justin Conboy hails from Salthill, Galway. Ireland. He graduated in 2015 as an Engineer from NUI Galway where computers and mathematics were his first love. Justin soon extended his love to writing and hence combined these attributes into writing his first novel, Code Thief, which was published in May.

Diane Fahey is an Australian poet and lives in a bayside town on the Bellarine Peninsula. She is the author of twelve poetry collections, most recently A House by the River (Puncher & Wattmann, 2016). The Wing Collection: New & Selected Poems (2011) and The Stone Garden: Poems from Clare (2013) were both shortlisted for major book awards. Sea Wall and River Light, a collection of poems set in Barwon Heads, received the ACT government's Judith Wright Poetry Award in 2007. Among her awards for individual poems are the Newcastle Poetry Prize and the Wesley Michel Wright Award. Diane has received literary grants from the Victorian and South Australian Governments, and from the Australia Council, including a grant in 2014 to support the writing of a book on the West of Ireland. She took part in Australian Poetry's 2013 International Poetry Tour of Ireland. Past writing residencies have taken her to Venice, the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Ireland, Hawthornden Castle International Writers' Retreat in Scotland, and to Varuna, the National Writers House, and Bundanon, both in N.S.W. She has been writer in residence at Ormond College, Melbourne, and the University of Adelaide. Her website: <dianefaheypoet.com>          

Louis de Paor is Director of the Centre for Irish Studies at NUI Galway and one of the leading Irish language poets. He is editor of the anthology Leabhar na hAthghabhála -Poems of Repossession (published recently by Bloodaxe). He will introduce the readings from Leabhar na hAthghabhála on the evening. 

A native of Cill Chiaráin, Micheál Ó Cuaig is a sean nós singer and  the author of highly regarded collections of Irish poetry, such as Uchtóga (1985) and Clocha Reatha (1986) which critics have applauded for their emotional delicacy and scrupulous use of language. His poems feature in Leabhar na hAthghabhála.

Colbert Kearney was born in Dublin, went to school in Garbally Park and attended University College Dublin and Cambridge University.  He is emeritus professor of English at University College Cork and has published studies of Brendan Behan and Sean O’Casey.  He has also published a novel, The Consequence, and has recently completed a memoir of his parents.  A major influence on his life was his Finglas National School teacher, Eoghan Ó Tuairisc, whose ‘Aifreann na Marbh’ he translated for Leabhar na hAthghabhála.

Alvy Carragher's first collection of poems Falling in Love with Broken Things has been published by Salmon Poetry this year. She is an award-winning poet and blogger. Her work has appeared in The Irish Times, The Galway Review, Poet Head, Skylight 47 and many others. She was selected for the Poetry Ireland Introduction Series 2016 and represented the group at a reading in New York.

There is no entrance fee.

For further information contact 087-6431748.

Over The Edge acknowledges the ongoing generous 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.

2015 Over The Edge Poetry Book Showcase at Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop

The 2015 Over The Edge Poetry Book Showcase featuring Louis de Paor, Sarah Clancy, Gerry Hanberry, Edward O’Dwyer, Edward O’Dwyer, Celeste Augé, Mary Madec, the Amach! LGBT anthology of poetry and creative writing anthology, Quincy Lehr, Kevin Higgins, The Hundred Years’ War: Modern War Poems (Bloodaxe, edited by Neil Astley), Jean Kavanagh, and Tom Duddy will take place at Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop on Friday, February, 13^th  at 6.30pm.

In this annual retrospective of the year just past, Galway-based poets, who published a new collection of poems during 2014, are invited to read three poems from the collection in question. There will also be a reading from Tom Duddy’s posthumously published poetry collection The Years (HappenStance Press); short readings from the anthologies Amach! LGBT anthology of poetry and creative writing, & The Hundred Years’ War: Modern War Poems; and a special guest appearance from the fiction anthology Noir by Noir West (published by Arlen House, edited by James Martyn Joyce).

All welcome. There is no cover charge. For further details phone 087-6431748.

Over The Edge acknowledges the ongoing generous financial support of The Arts Council, Poetry Ireland and Galway City Council.