Salmon Poetry invites you to the launch by Ailbhe Darcy of 'Naked: New and Selected' poems by Susan Millar DuMars at the House Hotel, Spanish Parade, Galway

Salmon Poetry invites you to the launch by Ailbhe Darcy of Naked: New and Selected poems by Susan Millar DuMars at the House Hotel, Spanish Parade, Galway on Sunday, April 14th at 2pm. All welcome.

These poems were written and published over twenty five years.  There are poems from each of DuMars’ four  previous collections – Big Pink Umbrella (2008), Dreams for Breakfast (2010), The God Thing (2013), and Bone Fire (2016) – along with a generous selection of new work.  Here is demonstrated the development of a poet born in twentieth century America and now dwelling in twenty first century Ireland; a voice all the more valuable for its hybrid nature.

When she writes of bodies (her own, the bodies of women, and the body of the nation), Millar DuMars uses plain and direct speech, ideally suited to the Galway of Savita Halappanavar and “The Lost Children of Tuam”...Millar DuMars draws from a deep technical well, and from rich observational and imaginative spaces. She is possessed of great empathy. Even when the voice rises in anger, it does so to clarify, record, and instruct. Naked: New and Selected is also a book of fables, stories, and magical convergences where public and buried lives are brought out into the light. – poet Eamonn Wall, author of Writing the Irish West: Ecologies and Traditions (Notre Dame Press, 2011)

Her poetry, influenced by the directness of the American tradition, comes as a breath of fresh air...  Jessica Traynor, Poetry Ireland Review

The poetry of DuMars is known for its sensuality, which comes across in the concentration on detail...imagery we can almost taste and feel...writing that lingers in the mind long after the book has been closed.  Adele Ward, Eyewear

Susan Millar DuMars treads her own tightrope with sureness and poise while avoiding showy gestures – all prayer and no pretension. John Hudson, Markings

Ailbhe Darcy reading at this year's TS Eliot Awards

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 is on the shortlist for the Irish Times Poetry Now Award 2019. Ailbhe is reading at this year's Cuirt International Festival of Literature at the Town Hall Theatre, Galway on Saturday, April 13th at 11.30am; she is also launching this year's Poem for Patience at University Hospital Galway on Friday, April 12th, 11am.

2016 Cúirt Festival of International Literature INVITES YOU to launch of 'Bone Fire' by Susan Millar DuMars

The 2016 Cúirt Festival of International Literature 

INVITES YOU 

to THE LAUNCH 

of Bone Fire by Susan Millar DuMars 

Date: Monday 18th April
Time: 8pm
Venue: Dock 1, upstairs 

Publisher: Salmon Poetry

Bone Fire

The bones are the bones of the poet – integral to the landscape of her body. The bones are the spines of trees, the bone white of the moon. They belong to the hawk, the blackbird, the lion and the deer. They are, too, the bones of the dead and discarded, the martyred and maimed and the simply inconvenient. They are the bones of the forgotten, who have not forgotten us...

The fire is love and lust – a lover’s tongue, a naked woman. It’s the red stones of a canyon. The fire is the red hair of the poet’s grandfather, the blood of JFK, a warehouse burning in South Philadelphia. Most of all, the fire is destruction; a torching, a bonfire, a clearing of space for whatever comes next.
Bone Fire is what we feel when history unfolds its dark feathers.

Bone Fire, a new collection of poetry by Susan Millar DuMars will be officially launched by Robyn Rowland.

For more about the launch see the Cúirt Festival website.

2014 Over The Edge New Writer of The Year to be judged by Eleanor Hooker NOW TAKING ONLINE PAYMENTS

2014 Over The Edge New Writer of The Year competition

OPEN TO POETS  FICTION WRITERS WORLDWIDE

NOW TAKING ONLINE PAYMENTS  

COMPETITION JUDGE: ELEANOR HOOKER

Major Sponsor: Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop. 

Other sponsors to date:

ISupply, Flood Street; Ward’s Hotel Lower Salthill;

 Kenny’sBookshop,  Clare Daly TD & Derek Nolan TD

Closing date: Wednesday, August 6^th, 2014

STILL TAKING ENTRIES 

UNTIL MIDNIGHT

 If you make your payment online before midnight on August 6th, we will accept your entry. And we will accept all entries postmarked August 6th or earlier, even if they arrive after that date. Extracts from novels absolutely accepted. As well, of course, as short stories and poems.

In 2014 Over The Edge is continuing its exciting annual international creative writing competition. Since its inception in 2007, it has grown to become one of the most important competition’s for emerging writers in Ireland and internationally. The competition is open to both poets and fiction writers worldwide. The total prize money is €1,000. The best fiction entry will win €300. The best poetry entry will win €300. One of these will then be chosen as the overall winner and will receive an additional €400, giving the overall winner total prize money of €700 and the title Over The Edge New Writer of The Year 2014. The 2014 Over The Edge New Writer of The Year will be a Featured Reader at Ireland’s leading literary reading series, the Over The Edge: Open Readings in Galway City Library, on a date to be scheduled in Winter 2014/15. Salmon Poetry will read, without commitment to publish, a manuscript submitted to them by the winner in the poetry category. Doire Press will read, without commitment to publish, a manuscript of short stories submitted to them by the winner in the fiction category. The overall winner will receive a hamper of books from the famous Kenny’s Bookshop of Galway, Ireland. The winner in the poetry category will have one of the poems from her or his winning entry published in the January 2015 issue of Skylight47 magazine.

Entries should be sent to Over The Edge, New Writer of the Year competition, 3 Carbry Road, Newcastle, Galway, Ireland. Entries will be judged anonymously, so do not put your name on your poem(s) or stories. Put your contact details on a separate sheet. If you live in Ireland and wish to be informed of the results by post, please enclose a stamped addressed envelope. OTHERWISE, YOU DO NOT NEED TO ENCLOSE A STAMPED ADDRESSED ENVELOPE. 

Criteria: fiction of up to three thousand words, three poems of up to forty lines, or one poem of up to one hundred lines. Any of the aforementioned is one entry. Multiple entries are acceptable but each must be accompanied by a fee. 

The fee for one entry is €10. The fee for multiple entries is €7.50 per entry e.g. two entries will cost €15, three entries €22.50 and so on. Fee payable by cheque or  money order to Over The Edge. The competition is open to writers worldwide. We accept payment in Dollars, Sterling, Australian Dollars, Canadian Dollars and so on. Writers from outside the Euro area can calculate the payment for their entry here http://www.xe.com/ucc/ WE ALSO NOW ACCEPT ONLINE PAYMENTS. See the below for details. If you pay the entry fee online you must still post us a hard copy of your entry/entries and enclose with it a note saying ‘entry fee paid online’. PLEASE INCLUDE THE EXACT NAME IN WHICH THE ONLINE PAYMENT HAS BEEN MADE SO THAT WE CAN VERIFY.

To take part you must be at least sixteen years old by September 1st 2014 and not have a book published or accepted for publication in the genre in which you enter. Chapbooks/ pamphlets excepted. Entries must not have been previously published or be currently entered in any other competition. The closing date is Wednesday, August 6th, 2014. A long-list will be announced at the August Over The Edge: Open Reading in Galway City Library on Thursday, August 28th, 2014 (6.30-8pm). THE LONGLIST WILL BE AVAILABLE, BEFORE THAT, AT CHARLIE BYRNE’S BOOKSHOP FROM 5PM ON THURSDAY AUGUST 28^TH.  The shortlist will be announced at the September Over The Edge: Open Reading in Galway City Library on Thursday, September 25^th, 2014 (6.30-8pm). The winners will be announced at the October Over The Edge: Open Reading in Galway City Library on Thursday, October 30^th, 2014 (6.30-8pm).

Eleanor Hooker lives in North Tipperary. Her debut collection of poems  The Shadow Owner's Companion, published by TheDedalus Press in 2012, has recently been shortlisted for the Strong/Shine award  for best first collection in 2012.  Her poetry has been published in Poetry Ireland Review, The Irish Times, The Stinging Fly, The SHOp, Crannog, Can Can, Agenda, POEM: International English Language Quarterly, New Leaf, and in the anthology I Live In Michael Hartnett. Online her poetry has been published in Wordlegs, And Other Poems, Ink Sweat and Tears and Poethead.  In June 2013 Eleanor won the Poetry Ireland/Trocaire poetry competition (Published Author Category). In 2011 she was a winner in the Frank X Buckley Flash Short Story competition at the Irish Writers' Centre, was joint second prize winner in the William Trevor/Elizabeth Bowen International Short Story competition. In December 2012 she was a winner in the ten word short story competition held by @shortstoryday. Eleanor has a BA (Hons 1st) from the Open University, an MA (Hons.) in Cultural History from the University of Northumbria, and an MPhil in Creative Writing (Distinction) from Trinity College, Dublin. She was selected for the Poetry Ireland Introductions Series in 2011. She is the Vice-Chairperson of the Dromineer Literary Festival. She is Helm and Press Officer for Lough Derg RNLI Lifeboat. 


For further details contact Over The Edge on 087-6431748,

or e-mail over-the-edge-openreadings@hotmail.com

If you make your payment online before midnight on August 6th, we will accept your entry. And we will accept all entries postmarked August 6th or earlier, even if they arrive after that date. Extracts from novels absolutely accepted. As well, of course, as short stories and poems.

TO PAY YOUR ENTRY FEE ONLINE SEE BELOW

Competition payments

ONE ENTRY €10.00 EUR TWO ENTRIES €15.00 EUR THREE ENTRIES €22.50 EUR FOUR ENTRIES €30.00 EUR FIVE ENTRIES €37.50 EUR SIX ENTRIES €45.00 EUR SEVEN ENTRIES €52.50 EUR EIGHT ENTRIES €60.00 EUR

Major Sponsor: Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop,

other sponsors to date: ISupply, Flood Street;

Ward’s Hotel, Salthill; Kenny’s Bookshop, 
Clare Daly TD, & Derek Nolan TD