September Over The Edge: Open Reading with Anne Rouse, Jim Ward, & Fiona Hanley PLUS launch of issue 16 of Skylight 47

  

The September ‘Over The Edge: Open Reading’ takes place in Galway City Library on Thursday, September 29^th, 6-7.30pm. The Featured Readers are Fiona Hanley, Jim Ward, & Anne Rouse. The evening will also see the launch, by Anne Rouse, of issue sixteen of perhaps Ireland’s most exciting, informative, and accessible poetry magazine Skylight 47. There will be readings by contributors. All welcome. 

 

Currently based in Connemara, Fiona Hanley writes poetry and lyrical essays. Previous work can be read in Cassandra Voices and Kunstlicht and forthcoming poems in Howl: New Irish Writing and The Interpreter’s House. She was recently placed 3rd for the Lough Mask Poetry competition and holds a PhD in Cultural Studies from the University of Edinburgh. She recently participated in Kevin Higgins’s Thursday Afternoon advanced poetry workshop via Galway Arts Centre. Fiona read some of her poems at the Poetry Co-operative’s arts for mental healh fundraising gig in aid of Jigsaw at Róisin Dubh in July.

Jim Ward has published for poetry and stories in Irish and English in various publications. His play Just Guff won 'Best in the West' award at Galway Fringe Festival, 2017 and has toured nationally including Town Hall Studio, Galway, Kilkee Playwright Festival and Liberty Hall, Dublin as part of MayFest 2019. His poem 2016 Proclamation was runner-up in the Galway Bay FM/Thoor Ballylee Yeats Poetry Challenge,2017. Another poem Orange Sunset came 3^rd in the Bobby Sands Creative Writing Contest, 2021. A second play Three Quarks was performed live via Zoom on February 2^nd last, Joyce’s birthday, by The James Joyce Centre in Dublin, and is on YouTube. His memoir piece Begging from Beggars was published in The 32 Anthology of Irish Working Class Voices, edited by Paul McVeigh, in 2021. He finished his first novel during the lockdown and is also a published cartoonist. 

Raised in Virginia, Anne Rouse lives in East Sussex. A former health worker, she's held Royal Literary Fund Fellowships in Glasgow, Belfast and London. Her poems have appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, Poetry Review, Magma, the Guardian, and other journals and anthologies. The Upshot: New and Selected Poems was a TLS Book of the Year in 2008.  Ox-Eye, poems on personal and social change, was published by Bloodaxe this June. She can be found on Twitter @rouseanne.

The MC for the evening will be Susan Millar DuMars. The entire event will be broadcast  via Facebook live at https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070193895521

For further details phone 087-6431748.

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

Deirdre Hines, John Noonan, & Daniel Wade PLUS launch of issue 15 of Skylight 47 at January Over The Edge: Open Reading as Over The Edge Celebrates 19th Birthday on Zoom

The January ‘Over The Edge: Open Reading’ takes place on Zoom on Thursday, January 20^th  at the usual Over The Edge time 6.30-8.00pm (local Galway time). The Featured Readers are Daniel Wade, John Noonan, & Deirdre Hines. The evening will also see the launch, by Deirdre Hines, of issue fifteen of perhaps Ireland’s most exciting, informative, and accessible poetry magazine Skylight 47, edited by Bernie Crawford, Nicki Griffin, & Ruth Quinlan. There will be readings by contributors. This reading celebrates the nineteenth anniversary of the first ever Over The Edge reading in Galway City Library and there will be an online birthday party throughout, even possibly a birthday cake to celebrate the fact that Over The Edge is now (easily) old enough to legally drink whiskey, drive a car, or join the French Foreign Legion. The MC for the evening will be Susan Millar DuMars.

Deirdre Hines was born in Liverpool. She moved to Belfast shortly thereafter, and from there to Letterkenny in Co. Donegal, where she now lives. She has written several plays, of which “Howling Moons, Silent Sons” won the Stewart Parker Award fro Best New Play in 1992. Pigsback Theatre Company produced it. She went on to write “Ghost Acreage at Vixen Tine” for Passion Machine’s Songs of the Reaper Festival in 1994.Other plays include “A Moving Destiny”(1996) produced by Yew Theatre Company and “Dreamframe” produced for Fishamble’s “Y2K” Festival. She was short listed for the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award in 2010, and won the Listowel Poetry Collection in 2011. Her debut poetry collection The Language of Coats was published by New Island Press in 2012. New poems have appeared in Poetry Ireland Review, Abridged, Three Drops from a Cauldron, Boyne Berries, The Bombay Review, The Lake, Crannóg, Elsewhere, and The Journal of Intelligent Travel to name a few. Her poetry wards include  being longlisted in The Gregory O’Donohue Competition (2012), and in The Aryamati Poetry Prize (2019), and shortlisted in The Allingham Poetry Prize (2018 and 2019). She reviews poetry for Sabotage, Riggwelter, and the Dublin Review of Books.

John Noonan is a native of Longford and now lives near Dundalk and is a member of Dundalk Writers ; his work has been published in Poetry Ireland Review, Crannóg, Skylight 47, Revival Press, Drawn To the Light Press, Pinewood Review, and Poppy Road Review [USA.]  Boyne Berries, North West Words. His first play "Winter Window" was performed in 2018. John's poetry has also been included in some anthologies also shortlisted in many poetry competitions and was the winner of The Goldsmith International Poetry Competition.

Daniel Wade is a writer from Dublin, Ireland. He is the Hennessy New Irish Writing winner for April 2015 in The Irish Times. In January 2017, his play 'The Collector' was staged at the New Theatre, Dublin. His debut poetry collection Rapids was published by Finishing Line Press in August of 2021, whilst his novel A Land Without Wolves was published by Temple Dark Books in September. 

Over The Edge is inviting you to the January Over The Edge: Open Reading on Zoom. Thursday, January 20^th, 6.30-8pm

Join The Over The Edge Zoom Meeting at

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

Meeting ID: 738 901 3549

The new issue (no. 15 of Skylight 47) will be launched by Deirdre Hines after the Featured Readers have finished. 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 presents the Zoom launch by Grace Wells of issue 14 of Skylight 47 Thursday May 13th

 

On Thursday May 13^th, 6.30pm Over The Edge presents the Zoom launch of issue 14 of Skylight 47 “possibly Ireland's most interesting poetry publication”, edited by Bernie Crawford, Nicki Griffin, & Ruth Quinlan. The issue includes a wide range of poems, reviews of poetry collections, and a poetry master class in which an established poet makes detailed editing suggestions for a poem submitted to them anonymously. The launch will include readings by contributors of their poems and the issue will be launched by award-winning poet Grace Wells who will also read some of her own poems. 

Grace Wells was born in London in 1968, and moved to rural Tipperary in 1991. Nature, spirit of place and ecological concern have been large themes in her writing ever since the publication of her debut children’s novel Gyrfalcon (O’Brien Press, 2002), which won the Eilís Dillon Best Newcomer Award and was an International White Ravens Choice. Her debut poetry collection When God has been Called Away to Greater Things (Dedalus Press, 2010), won the Rupert and Eithne Strong Best First Collection Award, and was shortlisted for the London Festival Fringe New Poetry Award. With her second poetry collection Fur (Dedalus Press, 2015), Wells moved more deeply into eco-poetics and ecofeminism. Fur was lauded in Poetry Ireland Review as ‘a book that enlarges the possibilities of poetry’, and her poem Otter was Highly Commended by the Forward Prize. She has reviewed Irish poetry for a wide range of journals, and has taught and mentored emerging writers on behalf of Poetry Ireland, Words Ireland, and for many County Council Arts Offices. In 2018 Grace Wells moved to County Clare, which has informed her new work with a coastal, marine light. She is currently working on her third collection, Home, a meditation on belonging within culture, body, self and nature in our era of ecological crisis. The poems are accompanied by a sequence of eco-poetry-films, Wells’ Home Movies. 

 Join the Over The Edge Zoom meeting at

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

Meeting ID: 738 901 3549

 6.30pm, Thurs, May 13^th

ALL WELCOME!

Make sure you have your copy of Skylight 47 for the launch by buying a copy in advance here https://skylight47poetry.wordpress.com/buy-skylight-47/

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.