Friday, September 9th, 2011, 8pm, All are welcome, FREE
The Kitchen @ The Museum,
Spanish Arch,
Galway
The September Over The Edge Writers’
Gathering presents readings by poets from Ireland, the UK and France. Visiting
poets Richard Halperin, Jane Clarke and C.P. Stewart will read their work. Also
reading on the night will be members of the legendary Galway-based poetry
workshop, The Skylight Poets, who will showcase their exciting new anthology, Mosaic,
which has already garnered praise from renowned poets Moya Cannon and Mary
O’Malley.
Richard W. Halperin holds a Ph.D. in
English Literature from the City University of New York. Until 2005 he was
chief of teacher education for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Paris, which entailed travel and work in Asia,
Africa and Central and Eastern Europe. For UNESCO, he edited the
downloadable book Reading and Writing Poetry: The Recommendations of Noted
Poets from Many Lands on the Teaching of Poetry in Secondary Schools, available
in English, French and Spanish versions. He will read from his poetry
collection, Anniversary, which was published last year by Salmon Poetry.
Originally from a farm in Roscommon, Jane
Clarke, now lives in Wicklow and is a member of Airfield Writers. She has had
poems published in Cyphers, Crannóg, Revival, The Shop, The Stony Thursday
Book, Southword and has won a number of prizes, including the Listowel Writers’
Week Prize (2007). In 2009 she was selected for the Poetry Ireland
Introductions Series. She is currently studying for an MPhil in Writing with
the University of Glamorgan, Wales. Jane is short-listed for this year’s Over
The Edge New Writer of The Year competition.
C.P. Stewart lives with his family in North
Yorkshire. Formerly singer/songwriter with the cult band Laughing Gravy, his
poetry has been widely published in Canada, Australia, Ireland, England and the
United States. For two years he was the Poetry Editor of Sotto Voce Arts and
Literary magazine (U.S.). A chapbook of his poetry, Taking it In was published
by Koo Poetry Press in 2009. His New and Selected Poems, Considering the Lilies,
was published earlier this year by the Galway-based publisher Wordsonthestreet.
Skylight Poets is the collective name for
an unlikely bunch of writers who have gathered on Thursday afternoons in a
sparsely furnished room with four skylights at the top of Galway Arts Centre in
Dominick Street Galway. Under the guidance of poet and workshop director Kevin
Higgins the first anthology from this motley group Lady Gregory’s Townhouse was
published in 2009. This was followed in 2010 by the highly praised Behind the
Masks and this year sees the publication of the Skylight Poets’ third anthology
Mosaic. Edited by Sarah Clancy, Des Kavanagh, Deirdre Kearney and Kevin O’Shea,
Mosaic has already garnered praise from renowned poets Moya Cannon and Mary
O'Malley.
The Kitchen
@ The Museum has a wine licence. For further information contact 087-6431748.
