Sunday, September 29, 2013

LONDON: Camden Poetry Series

Friday, 4th October 2013, 7pm (doors open 6.30pm), £5/£4, Wine 
Trinity United Reform Church,
1 Buck St,
Camden Town
1-2 mins. Camden Town tube

Ruth O'Callaghan presents Ruth Padel and Matthew Hollis                

Poets from the floor very welcome. Please bring a copy of the poem if you wish to be considered for the new anthology.

LONDON: Hammer & Tongue Camden Slam Final featuring Ross Sutherland

Monday, October 14th, 2013, 7.30-11pm
Green Note Cafe
106 Parkway
Camden Town
London


Ten slammer, three rounds, three guests = ONE ENORMOUS NIGHT OF POETIC GREATNESS.

Yep, we're back for the 2012/13 Camden slam FINAL! Nov 2012-Sept 2013 finalists will be battling it out over three rounds for the title of Camden Slam champion.

SLAMMERS!

Sarah Perry, Charlie Dupré, Gilbert Francois, Katherine Tarka, Matt Cummins,Catalina Ferro, Kemi Taiwo, Stephanie Dogfoot and Kareem Parkins Brown

We're also delighted to be welcoming Hammer & Tongue's October touring poet ROSS SUTHERLAND. Named a literary star by the times in 2008,
Ross Sutherland is one of the most interesting, witty and important poets performing in the UK at the moment. His new show Stand By For Tape Back-up blew us away at Edinburgh and we are really delighted to be welcoming him to Camden.

Sage & Time's
Amy Acre and Richard Marsh will also be guesting. They are simply wonderful and def not to be missed!

It's going to be a big night so we'll be kicking off at 7.30 sharp.

Hosted by Michelle Madsen and
Poetcurious

Wednesday, September 25, 2013

GALWAY: September Over The Edge Open Reading


Thursday, September 26th, 2013, 6.30pm-8pm, FREE

Galway City Library

The Featured Readers are Padhraic Harris, Rachel Coventry and John Foulcher. There will as usual be an open-mic after the Featured Readers have finished.

Rachel Coventry had been writing poetry and fiction since September 2010 when she did a beginners creative writing class with Kevin Higgins. Her work has appeared in Skylight 47, The Burning Bush 2, Boyne Berries, Bare Hands, and the First Cut. She was short listed for the 2012 Over The Edge New Writer of the Year Competition. She is currently studying for a PhD in the philosophy of art at The National University of Ireland, Galway.

Padhraic  Harris lives in Galway where he practises law. He dabbled in writing in his youth. Samples of his early short stories may be found in Criterion magazine. After a long break he renewed his interest in writing in the past year and finds inspiration, encouragement and enjoyment in creative writing classes at Galway Technical Institute.

John Foulcher has published nine books of poetry and a textbook about writing poetry. His poems were set for study on the New South Wales Higher School certificate for over 10 years in the 80′s or 90′s. His poetry is described by the Oxford Companion to Australian Literature as ‘simple, direct and convincing’. John received a Young Writer’s Fellowship from the Oz Council in 1981 (Light Pressure came out of that); Australia Council General Writing Grant, 1977; Australia Council Young Writer’s Fellowship, 1980. He won the National Library Bicentennial Award in 1988, the ACT Book of the Year Award in 1994, received an Established Writers Grant from the Oz Council in 2003, and in 2010-11 was the Oz Council’s resident in the Keesing Studio in Paris. He has been the poetry editor of both The Canberra Times and the Voices, the magazine of the National Library. In 2010, he was awarded a writer in residency in Paris at the Cité Internationale des Arts by the Literature Board of the Australia Council. His most recent and widely acclaimed book, The Sunset Assumption, was the result.

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

Tuesday, September 24, 2013

EDINBURGH: Inky Fingers Open Mic


GALWAY: Special Over The Edge: Open Reading At This Year’s Lady Gregory Autumn Gathering


Thursday, October 3rd, 2013, 7pm, FREE
Gort Public Library
Ireland
 
The Over The Edge: Open Readings in Galway City Library are famed for their large, supportive audiences. During the past decade many now established writers have taken their first early steps at these legendary readings. The venue for these readings since their inception in 2003 has always been Galway City Library. This year’s Lady Gregory Autumn Gathering will include a special Over The Edge: Open Reading. The Featured Readers are Bernie Crawford, Anthony O’Brien & Marie Cadden. There will as is usual at Over The Edge events be an open-mic after the Featured Readers have finished. Everyone who has a poem or page or two of a story they’d like to try out on an audience is most welcome to come along and participate.

Bernie Crawford lives near Oranmore, Co Galway.  She won first prize in The Dead Good Poetry Competition in 2013. She was long-listed for Over the Edge Poetry Competition in 2011 and again this year 2013. She was also long listed this year for Doire Press Annual International Poetry Chapbook Competition. In 2012 she was long-listed for the Powers Irish Whiskey Short Story Competition and was also a finalist in the Baffle poetry festival in Loughrea. She has been invited to read at a number of venues and her poems have appeared in the poetry anthology Behind The Masks and in a number of publications including Irish Left Review and Skylight 47.

Anthony O’Brien was born in Limerick and has been involved in Creative Writing since his schooldays in CBS Sextons Street. As well as his chapbook 21 Poems Anthony’s poems have been published in The Old Limerick Journal, The Limerick Poetry Broadsheet and The Stony Thursday Book and many other magazines. He has translated the poetry of the 19th century poet French Symbolist poet Paul Verlaine two of these translations were published in The Gorey Detail. In the 1990s he was a member of Fourfront poets with fellow Limerick poets Ciaran O Driscoll, Jo Slade and Mark Whelan. They wrote poetic drama pieces for the stage which they performed themselves at venues nationally. Since moving to live in Oranmore he has contributed to many Galway poetry workshops and recently been published in the NUIG creative writing chapbook Sourcings edited by Moya Cannon. Anthony is a member of the Oranmore Library Poetry Reading group and The Weir writing group and was shortlisted for the 2013 Cúirt New Writing prize

Marie Cadden lives in Spiddal, Co. Galway.  Winner of the Cuirt 2011 New Writing Prize for Poetry,  Runner-Up 2012 Westport Arts Festival Poetry Prize,  Third Prize 2012 Francis Ledwidge Poetry Competition.   Shortlisted for Desmond O'Grady Poetry Competition 2012, Bradshaw Books/Cork Literary Review Manuscript Competition 2011, Over the Edge New Writer of the Year Award 2010. Poems published in The Recorder (USA), THE SHOp, ROPES, Revival, Boyne Berries, Skylight 47 and anthologies Mosaic (2011), Behind the Masks (2010 - as co-editor) and Lady Gregory's Townhouse (2009).                    

There will be an open-mic after the Featured Readers have finished, which is open to everyone. 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 

Saturday, September 21, 2013

CAMBRIDGE: Allographic - Open Mic featuring Malcolm Guite and Hannah Chutzpah


Sunday, 22nd September, 2013, 7.30pm for 8pm start, donation (pay as you like)

The Fountain,
12 Regent Street,
Cambridge
CB2 1DW

Open mic poetry and storytelling with free snacks and featured acts. Malcolm Guite is a poet and singer-songwriter living in Cambridge. He is a priest, chaplain, teacher and author. http://malcolmguite.com/ Hannah Chutzpah describes herself as "an all-round wordy show-off," as well as the Editor of the Whippersnapper Press. http://hannahdoublebarrel.wordpress.com

Further details available online at http://agomseptember13.eventbrite.co.uk

Thursday, September 19, 2013

GALWAY: Culture Night Open Mic


Friday, September 20th, 2013, 6pm

Kenny’s Bookshop & Gallery, 
Liosbán Retail Park,
Tuam Road,
Galway

Over The Edge is holding a special Culture Night open-mic, with prizes for the best readers. The event is open to both poets and prose writers and all are welcome to participate.

The evening will be MCed by Dani Gill of Cúirt and will also see the much awaited announcement of the Short List for 2013 Over The Edge New Writer of The Year, for which Kenny’s is one of the generous sponsors.

CLIFDEN: Reading by Galway's Skylight Poets


Friday, September 20th, 2013, 2pm

Clifden Library,
Market Street,
Clifden,
Co Galway,
Ireland

The Galway’s Skylight Poets, who will mostly read poems published in the second issue of the critically acclaimed Skylight 47 poetry newspaper, as part of the 10th anniversary celebration for the Over the Edge readings in Galway City Library. Facilitated by poet and essayist Kevin Higgins.
For more about Clifden Arts Week.
http://www.clifdenartsweek.ie/event/reading-from-the-galways-skylight-poets/

For more about Skylight 47 poetry paper
http://www.overtheedgeliteraryevents.blogspot.ie/2012/11/skylight-47-possibly-irelands-most.html

Tuesday, September 17, 2013

CAMBRIDGE: Allographic - Open Mic featuring Malcolm Guite and Hannah Chutzpah


Sunday, 22nd September, 2013, 7.30pm for 8pm start, donation (pay as you like)
The Fountain,
12 Regent Street,
Cambridge
CB2 1DW

Open mic poetry and storytelling with free snacks and featured acts. Malcolm Guite is a poet and singer-songwriter living in Cambridge. He is a priest, chaplain, teacher and author.  http://malcolmguite.com/ Hannah Chutzpah describes herself as "an all-round wordy show-off," as well as the Editor of the Whippersnapper Press. http://hannahdoublebarrel.wordpress.com

Further details available online at http://agomseptember13.eventbrite.co.uk

Monday, September 16, 2013

LONDON: Lumen Poetry Series


Tuesday, September 17th, 2013, doors open 6.30pm for 7pm, £5/£4, WINE

Lumen,
88 Tavistock Place
WC1
Tubes: Russell Square, Kings Cross, St Pancras.
 

Ruth O'Callaghan presents The SHOp poets Kev
 
in Maynard, 
 
John Mole and 
 
Rosemary Norman.
 

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

Friday, September 13, 2013

SHEFFIELD: Matthew Clegg presents West North East

Thursday, 19th September, 2013, 8pm, FREE
The Shakespeare,

146-148 Gibraltar Street,
Sheffield,
S3 8UB

Matthew Clegg launches his first full-length poetry collection, West North East (Longbarrow Press). The event will explore the dynamic design of the book in a specially devised presentation featuring guest readers Angelina Ayers, Andrew Hirst, Helen Mort, Fay Musselwhite and Karl Riordan and ambient soundscapes by Brian Lewis. Together, the readers will create a fugue of voices that brings out the modulations of pitch, tone and register; the tensions and relationships between worlds and predicaments.

More details at http://westnortheast.wordpress.com/essays/a-fugue-of-voices/

Thursday, September 12, 2013

GALWAY: September Over The Edge Open Reading


Thursday, September 26th, 2013, 6.30pm-8pm, FREE
Galway City Library

The Featured Readers are Padhraic Harris, Rachel Coventry and John Foulcher. There will as usual be an open-mic after the Featured Readers have finished.

Rachel Coventry had been writing poetry and fiction since September 2010 when she did a beginners creative writing class with Kevin Higgins. Her work has appeared in Skylight 47, The Burning Bush 2, Boyne Berries, Bare Hands, and the First Cut. She was short listed for the 2012 Over The Edge New Writer of the Year Competition. She is currently studying for a PhD in the philosophy of art at The National University of Ireland, Galway.

Padhraic  Harris lives in Galway where he practises law. He dabbled in writing in his youth. Samples of his early short stories may be found in Criterion magazine. After a long break he renewed his interest in writing in the past year and finds inspiration, encouragement and enjoyment in creative writing classes at Galway Technical Institute.

John Foulcher has published nine books of poetry and a textbook about writing poetry. His poems were set for study on the New South Wales Higher School certificate for over 10 years in the 80′s or 90′s. His poetry is described by the Oxford Companion to Australian Literature as ‘simple, direct and convincing’. John received a Young Writer’s Fellowship from the Oz Council in 1981 (Light Pressure came out of that); Australia Council General Writing Grant, 1977; Australia Council Young Writer’s Fellowship, 1980. He won the National Library Bicentennial Award in 1988, the ACT Book of the Year Award in 1994, received an Established Writers Grant from the Oz Council in 2003, and in 2010-11 was the Oz Council’s resident in the Keesing Studio in Paris. He has been the poetry editor of both The Canberra Times and the Voices, the magazine of the National Library. In 2010, he was awarded a writer in residency in Paris at the Cité Internationale des Arts by the Literature Board of the Australia Council. His most recent and widely acclaimed book, The Sunset Assumption, was the result.

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 

GALWAY: September Over The Edge Writers' Gathering


Friday, September 13th, 2013, 8pm, FREE

Galway Arts Centre’s Nuns’ Island Theatre

Orla McGovern and Australian poets Robyn Rowland, Andy Jackson and Rachael Guy
PLUS
the Galway launch of Máire T Robinson’s short story chapbook Your Mixtape Unravels my Heart
(Doire Press) and Nicki Griffin’s The Skipper and Her Mate.

Órla Mc Govern is a Writer and Performer living in Galway.  Her work has been commissioned for theatre, film, print and radio projects; including outdoor mythological sagas, political art, radio drama for The Guinness Hopstore, and a floating panto on The Liffey.  She was awarded first place in the Eamonn Kelly Storytelling Competition, in Listowel Writers’ Week, and is the founding member of ‘Moth & Butterfly’, a night of Story and Improvisation. She is a contributor to Liam Duffy’s recently published Artistic Atlas of Galway.

Nicki Griffin has been writing a very popular column for the Inland Waterways Newsmagazine since 2002. The Skipper & Her Mate is her first book. Nicki also writes poetry and is an editor of the acclaimed poetry newspaper Skylight 47. She was the poetry winner in the 2010 Over The Edge New Writer of The Year competition. Nicki’s debut poetry collection, Unbelonging, will be published later this year by Salmon Poetry.

Máire T. Robinson lives in Dublin City. She graduated from NUI, Galway in 2008 with a Masters in Writing. Since then, her short stories have been published in the Irish Independent, Horizon Review, Crannóg, Cuadrivio (in Spanish Translation), Boyne Berries, Wordlegs, WOW! Anthology, Writing4all Anthology, the Chattahoochee Review and Telmetale Bloomnibus (a Ulysses-inspired e-book produced by The Irish Writers’ Centre). She was nominated for a Hennessy Literary Award in Emerging Fiction in 2012. Her debut chapbook collection of short stories, Your Mixtape Unravels my Heart, is the prize awarded Máire for winning the 2013 Doire Press International Fiction Chapbook Competition. 

Andy Jackson has performed at dozens of events and festivals (including The Age Melbourne Writers Festival, Prakriti Poetry Festival [in Chennai, India], Goa Literary & Arts Festival, Australian Poetry Festival, Queensland Poetry Festival, Newcastle Young Writers Festival and Overload Poetry Festival), had poems published in a variety of print and on-line journals, been awarded grants from the Australia Council and Arts Victoria, been the recipient of an Australian Society of Authors mentorship, and self-published two collections of poetry. His most recent collection of poems, Among the Regulars,was published by papertiger media in 2010 – this book was shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Prize for Poetry (the Kenneth Slessor Prize) and Highly Commended in the Anne Elder Award.  Andy has the genetic condition Marfan Syndrome.  He is currently based in Melbourne.

Rachael Guy is a multi-disciplinary artist who makes visual theatre with puppetry. She has also worked as theatre professional for the past decade as a performer/singer and writer in the field of contemporary, experimental music theatre. Most recently she has worked as an arts worker with Arts Project Australia, assisting and facilitating art making with artists with intellectual disability. In 2009 Rachael collaborated with Andy Jackson on a poetry/puppetry work Ambiguous Mirrors which featured at Overload Festival 2009. In 2012 the first iteration of Rachael’s full-length solo work Hutch premiered at TheTarrengower Puppetfest in Central Victoria. This piece was staged underground in a disused gold mine and combined live music, puppetry and physical theatre.

Robyn Rowland has regularly visited Ireland since 1983 and lived there over extended periods of time in Connemara. She has read her poetry and given workshops at among others: Cúirt International Festival of Literature(2004), Éigse Michael Hartnett;  Listowel Writers Week; Boyle Arts Festival; Yeats Society, Sligo;  Scriobh, Sligo;  Clifden Community Arts Week; October Arts in Ennis, Co Clare; Kings House Boyle, Roscommon; The Australian Arts and Culture Festival 1999, Dublin (where her third book Fiery Waters  was launched by the Australian Ambassador). In 2009 she was guest in Istanbul at SiirIstanbul’09, and in Belgrade at the International Writers Meeting 2009; in 2010 at Sarajevo Poetry Days and Austrian Universities in Vienna, Graz and Klagenfurt. In 1996 Robyn was made an Officer in the Order of Australia by the Australian Government for her contribution to higher education and women’s health.

For further information contact 087-6431748.

 Over The Edge acknowledges the ongoing generous financial support of the Arts Council and Galway City Council. http://overtheedgeliteraryevents.blogspot.com

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

GALWAY: Culture Night Open Mic


Friday, September 20th, 2013, 6pm
Kenny’s Bookshop & Gallery, 
Liosbán Retail Park,
Tuam Road,
Galway

Over The Edge is holding a special Culture Night open-mic, with prizes for the best readers. The event is open to both poets and prose writers and all are welcome to participate.

The evening will be MCed by Dani Gill of Cúirt and will also see the much awaited announcement of the Short List for 2013 Over The Edge New Writer of The Year, for which Kenny’s is one of the generous sponsors.