LONDON: Camden Poetry Series

Friday, 1st March, 2013, 7pm (doors open 6.30pm), £5/£4, Wine

Trinity United Reform Church,

1 Buck Street,

Camden Town

Ruth O'Callaghan presents the launch of Soaring Penguin Poet Annmarie Cooper, supported by Miriam Halahmy, Anna Meryt, Jonathan Portman.

Poets from the floor very welcome.

Please bring a copy of the poem if you wish to be considered for the new anthology.

GALWAY: February Over The Edge Open Reading

Thursday, February 28th, 2013, 6.30pm-8pm, FREE

Galway City Library

The Featured Readers are Mia Gallagher, Dawn Wisniewski and Ruth Quinlan. There will as usual be an open-mic after the Featured Readers have finished. New readers are especially welcome. The evening will also see the announcement of details of this year’s Over The Edge New Writer of The Year competition, which will then be made available on our website http://overtheedgeliteraryevents.blogspot.com

Ruth Quinlan is from Tralee, County Kerry. She worked in IT before taking a break in 2011 to try and scratch the writing itch and graduated from the MA in Writing at NUI Galway in 2012. She was shortlisted for the 2012 Cúirt New Writing fiction prize and longlisted for last year's Over the Edge New Writer of the Year competition. Her work has been published by Emerge Literary Journal, Thresholds, SIN, Scissors and Spackle and she is longlisted for the current Irish Independent Hennessy New Irish Writing awards. She recently contributed towards two group anthologies, Abandoned Darlings (fiction) and Wayword Tuesdays (poetry). You can find her blogging occasionally at ruthquinlan.wordpress.com. 

Despite a lengthy career in the logical world of information technology, Dawn Wisniewski has carved a tunnel into the creative side of her brain, allowing her to formulate everything from poetry to fantasy worlds, and even a little artistry on the side.  With the help of Kevin Higgins’ poetry workshops, she has gained not only confidence in her poetic ventures but better skills to craft her prose.  Also aided by Susan Millar-Dumars’ classes, Dawn has developed a portfolio of short stories and enhancements to the series of fantasy novels she has written.  With the first of the series of novels finally ready for submission, Dawn is actively seeking an agent or publisher.

Mia Gallagher is a writer and performer based in Dublin. She has written many short stories and is working on a third novel. Her short fiction won the START Short Fiction award (2005) and was shortlisted for the Fish, Hennessy and William Trevor/Elizabeth Bowen Awards. Her debut novel HellFire (Penguin Ireland, 2006) was critically acclaimed and received the Irish Tatler Literature Award. An extract from her second novel Beautiful Pictures of the Lost Homeland appeared last year in Literary Imagination (Oxford University Press).  In September 2012, Carpet Theatre produced The Trick and Burning Love, two of her adaptations of plays from the classic if schlocky Grand Guignol Theatre of Horror! In 2012 she appeared as the female lead in TG4 docudrama The Enigma of Frank Ryan, which has shown at film festivals internationally. Mia was writer-in-residence at IADT/dlr Arts Office in 2009-2010.

As usual there will be an open-mic after the Featured Readers have finished. New readers are always most welcome at the open-mic. THE EVENING WILL ALSO SEE THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF DETAILS OF THIS YEAR’S OVER THE EDGE NEW WRITER OF THE YEAR COMPETITION. 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: North Beach Poetry Nights

Monday, 25th February, 2013, 6.30pm, €5/€3

The Crane Bar,

Sea Road,

Galway

with special guest Kimberly Campanello (Dublin)

Kimberly Campanello was born in Elkhart, Indiana. She now lives in Dublin. Her chapbook 'Spinning Cities' was published by Wurm Press in 2011. She was featured poet in the Summer 2010 issue of The Stinging Fly; her poems have appeared in magazines in the US, UK, and Ireland, including Tears in the Fence, nthposition, Burning Bush II, Abridged, The Penny Dreadful, and Irish Left Review. In 2011, she was selected to read as part of the Poetry Ireland Introductions Series. Kimberly's first full collection 'CONSENT' will be available from Doire Press in May 2013.

Poets wishing to enter the Slam on the night need 2 max. three minutes poems. The poem for the 2nd round should be performed without script. The prize for the winner is a bottle of wine and entry to the North Beach Grand Slam in December.

Info: john @091/593290 

North Beach Poetry Nights wishes to acknowledge the continued support of Galway City Council.

LONDON: Grey Hen Press reading

Thursday, 21st February, 2013, 7pm-8.30pm, FREE

Queen's Park Books

87 Salusbury Road

London

NW6 6NH

A reading from the Grey Hen Press anthology The Price of Gold, with Maggie Butt, Katherine Gallagher, Joy Howard, Marianne Burton and Christine Webb.

LONDON: Paper Tiger Poetry

Friday, February 15th, 2013, £5

Tea House Theatre

139 Vauxhall Walk

Vauxhall

London SE11 5HL (round the corner from Vauxhall tube on Victoria line)

Maplink: http://binged.it/sePcHW

It's Valentine's Day at Paper Tiger Poetry. We have Edward Unique, Ant Smith and magnificent Joshua Idehen featuring, along with the usual open-mic slots. Hosted by Alain English.

GALWAY: 2013 Over The Edge Poetry Book Showcase

Friday, February 15th, 2013, 8pm, FREE

The Kitchen @ The Museum

Spanish Arch,

Galway



The 2013 Over The Edge Poetry Book Showcase, featuring Mary O’Rourke, Sarah Clancy, Máire Holmes, Kevin O’Shea, The Tuesday Knights poets, James Lawless, The Abandoned Darlings writers, Elaine Feeney, Micheál Ó’Coinn, Away With Words writers, Michael Faherty, Merlin Park Hospital Writers and Amit Mediratta.



In this annual retrospective of the year just past, Galway-based poets who published a new collection of poems during 2012 are invited to read three poems from the collection in question. There will also be short readings from the anthologies Abandoned Darlings (NUI Galway MA in Writing class of 2012), Wayword Tuesdays (The Tuesday Knights poetry group), Jessica Casey & Other Works (Away With Words writers, published by Salmon), This Never Happened (Merlin Park Hospital Writers) and Infusions (Java Writers). There will also be a reading of poems from Elaine Feeney and Sarah Clancy’s poetry CD Cinderella Backwards. 



For further details phone 087-643 1748.



Over The Edge acknowledges the ongoing generous financial support of The Arts Council and Galway City Council.

LEEDS: Poetry By Heart

Wednesday, 27th February, 2013, 7.30pm, FREE

Headingley Enterprise and Arts Centre (HEART) Ltd,

Bennett Road,

Leeds

LS6 3HN

A reading featuring three Ward Wood poets - Keith Armstrong, David Cooke and Joy Howard.

EDINBURGH: Inky Fingers Open Mic

Tuesday, 26th February
, 2013, 
8pm-11pm, FREE

The Forest Café,

141 Lauriston Place,

Edinburgh


This month we’re bringing you a feature from Ghostboy, the Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde of Australian poetry. Ghostboy won the Performance Poetry World Cup (2005) establishing him as one of Australia’s most innovative "spoken weird" artists. He has been Queensland's  “slammaster” since 2005 coordinating two of the nations biggest slam events in the Australian Poetry Slam (Queensland) and the WordFood slam at the Woodford Folk Festival. Ghostboy also fronts punk kabaret act Ghostboy with Golden Virtues and has performed his work on ABC & Triple J radio. Festivals featured at include the Brisbane Writers Festival, Byron Bay Writers Festival, Tasmanian Poetry Festival, and ‘NightWords’ at the Sydney Opera House. His new collection of poetry And the Ringmaster Said… was released by Small Change Press in 2008. http://www.ghostboy.net

The Inky Fingers Open Mic takes place every fourth Tuesday of the month, from 8-11pm. It’s free to come and free for anyone to perform, regardless of style, experience, or identity.

We want to hear from everybody. We want your poems, your rants, your ballads, your short stories, your diaries, your experimental texts, your heart, your mind, your body. We want the essay on your summer holidays you wrote when you were four, your adolescent haiku, and extracts from your eventually-to-be-completed epic fantasy quadrilogy. We want to hear your best new work as well. And we want people to care about the way words are performed.

Open Mic slots are five minutes long; e-mail inkyfingersedinburgh@gmail.com to sign up and be sure of a slot, and check our website at http://inkyfingersedinburgh.wordpress.com for more details.