LISTOWEL: Sue Hubbard

Friday, 31st May, 2013, 1.30pm

The Plaza Centre,

Listowel,

Ireland

The Irish launch of Sue Hubbard's third poetry collection, The Forgetting and Remembering of Air.

"There  is nothing safely aesthetic about these poems, beautifully observed though they frequently are. The watching intelligence reaches so far into the places, situations or works of art that it nearly forgets itself, and maybe desires to. The central block of poems on the tragic deaths of women signal that danger, and make it all the more of an achievement when the closing poems journey to the edge of the Atlantic, almost beyond comfort or habitable land, and come back with a final, hard-won ‘...yes’" —Philip Gross

GALWAY: May Over The Edge Open Reading

Thursday, May 30th, 2013, 6.30pm-8pm, FREE

Galway City Library

The Featured Readers are Thomas McCarthy, Eileen Ní Shuilleabháin and Seán Kenny. Sean was the over-all winner of the 2012 Over The Edge New Writer of The Year competition and this reading is part of his prize. This is the final Over The Edge: Open Reading before the summer break.

Seán Kenny’s fiction has appeared in Crannóg, The Irish Times, New Irish Writing in The Irish Independent, Southword and Wordlegs. He won the 2012 Over The Edge New Writer of the Year competition and was shortlisted for a 2013 Hennessy Literary Award.

Eileen Ní Shuilleabháin grew up in the parish of Carna in the Connemara Gaeltacht. She lives and works in Galway city as a social worker and psychotherapist. She has been attending poetry workshops with Kevin Higgins this last two years. Eileen contributed towards a group poetry anthology Wayword Tuesdays in 2012. Her work has also been published by Emerge Literary Journal, The Burning Bush, Aperçus Quarterly, Boyne Berries, The Galway Review and Scissors & Spackle.

Thomas McCarthy was born in Co. Waterford in 1954 and educated at University College, Cork. He has published eight collections of poetry, two novels and a memoir. He has won the Patrick Kavanagh Award, the American-Irish Foundation’s Literary Award, and the O’Shaughnessy Prize for Poetry. He has worked for Cork City Libraries since 1987. He is a member of Aosdána. In a review Pat Cotter has said of him: “McCarthy is a poet primarily concerned with politics and family. His work's importance lies in its unremitting and detailed examination of the Republic's failures and successes as an independent state. Described by Eavan Boland as the first poet born into the Republic to write about it critically, McCarthy has done so from the perspective of a family dedicated and loyal to the state's most successful and powerful political party: Fianna Fail. But his poems are not eulogies to the party or apologies for its policies; they are more like an exploration of the party as an object of loyalty and devotion (like a lover objectified) with all the potential such an object has for empowerment and betrayal.”


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 & The Arts Council. http://overtheedgeliteraryevents.blogspot.com 

EDINBURGH: We Are Poets

Tuesday, 28th May, 2013, doors open 7pm, £5 advance, £6 on the door

The Banshee Labyrinth,

Niddry Street,

Edinburgh

Inky Fingers presents...We Are Poets

We Are Poets swept the boards of international film festivals in 2011 and 2012, and Inky Fingers is delighted to bring this extraordinary film to Edinburgh audiences for one night only.  We Are Poets follows six Leeds teenagers as they prepare for the world's most prestigious poetry slam - Brave New Voices.

From the red-bricked streets of Northern England to a stage in front of the White House, this is a moving and radical story of youth, art and freedom of expression. This independent film was five years in the making, and the film makers were allowed unprecedented access to the Brave New Voices slam world.

For one night only, this film will be shown in Edinburgh. Book tickets now at http://wearepoetsedinburgh.eventbrite.co.uk

The screening will be followed by a wildcard open mic, running 9.30pm – 11.30pm. Come along, add your name to the hat before or after the film, take your chances for five minutes on the Inky Fingers stage!

Inky Fingers is an Edinburgh based spoken word collective that works to create platforms for people to perform their words, whether poetry, prose, or all the variations in between. Find out more at http://inkyfingersedinburgh.wordpress.com

LONDON: Jazz Verse Jukebox

Sunday, 9th June, 2013, doors 6.30pm, show 7.30pm, £8 (tickets on door only)

Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club (Upstairs),

47 Frith Street,

London

W1D 4HT

Tube: Tottenham Court Road or Leicester Square

Web:www.jumokefashola.com

Email: JazzVerseJukebox@me.com

The Jazz Verse Jukebox celebrates the power and inspiration of the 'female pen' with an all women line-up with special guests including - poets Sabrina Mahfouz, Hollie McNish, Indigo Williams, Agnes Meadows plus music from singer/songwriter Lánre.

Since its inception in 2009, the Jazz Verse Jukebox, (the brainchild of broadcaster & Vocalist Jumoké Fashola), has welcomed established poets and musicians such as Lemn Sissay, Soweto Kinch, Michael Horovitz, David Grant, Anthony Joseph, Colin Salmon, Jacob Sam-La Rose & Katrina Naomi. 

Join us for what promises to be a thrilling night of diverse spoken word & jazz from some of the freshest exponents on the scene. With a live jazz trio & Open Mic, cushions to lounge on, cocktails to imbibe & surprises, this is one night not to miss!

**Jukebox Open Mic**

Come & sing with the amazing Jazz Verse Jukebox trio (Dorian Ford - Piano / Oli Hayhurst - Bass/ Winston Clifford-Drums) or perform some poetry.

Special Guests

Sabrina Mahfouz / Hollie McNish / Indigo Williams / Agnes Meadows / Lánre

Compered by & with music from Jumoké Fashola

www.jumokefashola.com

CAMBRIDGE: Allographic – Other Voices featuring Martin Figura and Justina Kehinde

Sunday, May 26th, 2013, 7.30pm for 8pm start, £5, £3.50 concessions

The Fountain,

12 Regent Street,

Cambridge

CB2 2DW

Open mic poetry and storytelling with free snacks. Martin Figura is many other things, but mostly a poet. His show Whistle was shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry http://www.martinfigura.co.uk

Justina Kehinde is a jazz singer, public speaker, poetic dreamer, social warrior, award-winner...

Contact details: events@allographic.co.uk; 07904 488009

Website address: http://www.allographic.co.uk

LONDON: Camden Poetry Series

Friday, 7th June, 2013, 7pm (doors open 6.30pm), £5/£4, WINE

Trinity United Reform Church,

1 Buck Street,

Camden Town

1-2 mins. Camden Town tube

Ruth O'Callaghan presents The launch of the Poets from the Floor Anthology, courtesy of Soaring Penguin. Poets from the floor very welcome. Please bring a copy of your poem if you wish to be considered for the new anthology.

LONDON: Velvet Tongue

Monday, 3rd June, 2013, Doors open 7pm; show starts 7.30pm, £5/£3, free to participants

Bar Kick,

127 Shoreditch High Street,

E1 6JE,

London.

Old Street/Liverpool St. tube stations; Shoreditch High Street overground.

http://velvettongueuk.blogspot.co.uk/

Featured authors and performers for spring 2013 are: 

SEASON BUTLER (live art), SHAUN LEVIN (fiction), AMY NEILSON SMITH (poetry), MICHAEL DARLING (boylesque) 

…and a special appearance by VAN ROBERTS (fiction/poetry), all the way from Australia

Plus the usual five-minute Open Mic slots.

Hosted by Erotic Award winning poet, Ernesto Sarezale 

(http://www.sarezale.com/)

THINGS PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT VELVET TONGUE:

"Velvet Tongue had the perfect mix of engaging and mesmerising wordplay and pure hilarity" Thisiscabaret.com

"I was really impressed with the night in total. I feel like I expanded my mind, took in some culture and best of all got inspired." thingsipickedupontheway.blogspot.co.uk/

"For literature really laid bare, poet Ernesto Sarezale’s Velvet Tongue in Shoreditch is just the titillating ticket." metro.co.uk

"Fun, diverse and so sexy!" (Five stars) Remotegoat.co.uk

"Whether you're a performer, a poet, or just like listening to other people's fantasies, Velvet Tongue offers a place to hear and be heard." Erotic Review Magazine

"Velvet Tongue is the word-spinning sister of the burlesque revival that has stormed London - humorously titillating with tongues very firmly in cheeks" "...a wonderfully entertaining way to spend the night" thisislondon.co.uk

"...exploratory literary night of performance and poetry with a raunchy edge" Time Out 

“It's the perfect place to try new work and show off your talent with a room buzzing full of writers and fans of poetry and word. It's not simply readings though, the performers that it attracts are hands on, hansom and props and interaction with the audience often occur...” eroticmeet.net

Velvet Tongue is dedicated to erotic writing and performance, with poetry, fiction, spoken word, plays, stand-up, comic strips, cabaret, monologues,… Velvet Tongue celebrates the hot, the sweet, the viscous, the carnal, the sexy, the racy, the provocative, the lustful, the voluptuous, the libidinous, the playful, the flirtatious, the teasing, the suggestive, the explicit, the cheeky, the bold, the brash, the brassy, the flashy, the risque, the pervy, the licentious, the queer, the depraved and the downright kinky.

LONDON: Lumen Poetry Series

Tuesday, May 21st, 2013, doors open 6.30 for 7pm, £5/£4, WINE

LUMEN

88 Tavistock Place

WC1 

Tubes: Russell Square, Kings Cross, St Pancras

Ruth O'Callaghan presents Anne Stevenson and Richard Berengarten.

Poets from the floor very welcome. Please leave the  poem you read to be considered for the next anthology.

LISTOWEL: Sue Hubbard

Friday, 31st May, 2013, 1.30pm

The Plaza Centre,

Listowel,

Ireland

The Irish launch of Sue Hubbard's third poetry collection, The Forgetting and Remembering of Air.

"There  is nothing safely aesthetic about these poems, beautifully observed though they frequently are. The watching intelligence reaches so far into the places, situations or works of art that it nearly forgets itself, and maybe desires to. The central block of poems on the tragic deaths of women signal that danger, and make it all the more of an achievement when the closing poems journey to the edge of the Atlantic, almost beyond comfort or habitable land, and come back with a final, hard-won ‘...yes’" —Philip Gross

GALWAY: May Over The Edge Open Reading

Thursday, May 30th, 2013, 6.30pm-8pm, FREE

Galway City Library

The Featured Readers are Thomas McCarthy, Eileen Ní Shuilleabháin and Seán Kenny. Sean was the over-all winner of the 2012 Over The Edge New Writer of The Year competition and this reading is part of his prize. This is the final Over The Edge: Open Reading before the summer break.

Seán Kenny’s fiction has appeared in Crannóg, The Irish Times, New Irish Writing in The Irish Independent, Southword and Wordlegs. He won the 2012 Over The Edge New Writer of the Year competition and was shortlisted for a 2013 Hennessy Literary Award.

Eileen Ní Shuilleabháin grew up in the parish of Carna in the Connemara Gaeltacht. She lives and works in Galway city as a social worker and psychotherapist. She has been attending poetry workshops with Kevin Higgins this last two years. Eileen contributed towards a group poetry anthology Wayword Tuesdays in 2012. Her work has also been published by Emerge Literary Journal, The Burning Bush, Aperçus Quarterly, Boyne Berries, The Galway Review and Scissors & Spackle.

Thomas McCarthy was born in Co. Waterford in 1954 and educated at University College, Cork. He has published eight collections of poetry, two novels and a memoir. He has won the Patrick Kavanagh Award, the American-Irish Foundation’s Literary Award, and the O’Shaughnessy Prize for Poetry. He has worked for Cork City Libraries since 1987. He is a member of Aosdána. In a review Pat Cotter has said of him: “McCarthy is a poet primarily concerned with politics and family. His work's importance lies in its unremitting and detailed examination of the Republic's failures and successes as an independent state. Described by Eavan Boland as the first poet born into the Republic to write about it critically, McCarthy has done so from the perspective of a family dedicated and loyal to the state's most successful and powerful political party: Fianna Fail. But his poems are not eulogies to the party or apologies for its policies; they are more like an exploration of the party as an object of loyalty and devotion (like a lover objectified) with all the potential such an object has for empowerment and betrayal.”


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 & The Arts Council. http://overtheedgeliteraryevents.blogspot.com