Thursday, January 24th, 2013, 6.30pm, FREE
Galway City
Library
Over The Edge in
association with Poetry Ireland presents the first Over The Edge: Open
Reading of 2013. The Featured Readers are James Martyn Joyce, Jennifer Matthews and Harry
Clifton. This is a very special occasion as it is now 10 years since Over The
Edge was born in Galway City Library in January 2003.
A most important part of
the evening will be the launch of the first issue of Skylight 47, the new
bi-annual poetry paper from the Skylight Poets, which will be on sale for the
first time on the evening. The first issue includes new poems by established
and emerging poets, an interview with Harry Clifton, a poetry masterclass with
Paul Maddern and reviews.
James Martyn Joyce is from Galway and he is a
member of The Talking Stick Workshop. His work has appeared in The Cúirt
Journal, West 47, Books Ireland, Crannog, The Sunday Tribune, The Stinging Fly
and The Shop. He has had stories broadcast on RTE and BBC and has won the
Listowel Writers Week Originals Short Story Competition. He was shortlisted for
a Hennessy Award in 2006. He was shortlisted for the Francis McManus award in
2007 and 2008 and The William Trevor International Short Story Competition in
2007 and 2011. His first collection of poetry, Shedding Skin, was published by
Arlen House in 2010. His collection of short stories, What’s Not Said, was
published by Arlen House in 2012.
Jennifer Matthews writes poetry and book
reviews, and is editor of the Long Story Short literary journal. Her poetry has
been published in The Stinging Fly, Mslexia, Revival, Necessary Fiction, Poetry
Salzburg, Foma & Fontanelles and Cork Literary Review, and anthologised in
Dedalus's collection of immigrant poetry in Ireland, Landing Places (2010). In
2012 she read at Electric Picnic with Poetry Ireland, and had a poem
shortlisted by Gwyneth Lewis in the Bridport poetry competition. She is
currently working on a collaboration with poet Anamaría Crowe Serrano.
Harry Clifton was born in Dublin in 1952.
He studied at Blackrock College and later at University College Dublin. He was
also an International Fellow at the University of Iowa. In 1981, he won the
Patrick Kavanagh award. He has published seven books of poems and two books of
prose. Le Canto d’Ulysse, his Selected Poems in French, was published in 1996.
His book Secular Eden won the Poetry Now/ Irish Times award in 2008. He teaches
at University College Dublin and is Ireland Professor of Poetry. His most
recent poetry collection is the highly The Winter Sleep of Captain Lemass,
which was published by Bloodaxe in May 2012.
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, who have funded Over The Edge since 2004; The Arts
Council, who have funded us continuously since 2006; and Poetry Ireland who
have sponsored several readings over the years, including this reading by Harry
Clifton.
