British poet Helen Mort
Rob Childers
& Lorraine Kelly to read with acclaimed British poet Helen Mort at September
Over The Edge: Open Reading and LAUNCH of issue 4 of Skylight 47 poetry
newspaper.
The September ‘Over The Edge: Open Reading’ takes place in Galway City Library on Thursday, September 25th, 6.30-8.00pm. The Featured Readers are Helen Mort, Lorraine Kelly & Rob Childers. The evening will also see the launch of the latest issue (no. 4) of Skylight 47 poetry newspaper, probably Ireland’s most interesting poetry publication, and the announcement of the shortlist for this year’s Over The Edge New Writer of the Year competition, judged by poet Eleanor Hooker.
The September ‘Over The Edge: Open Reading’ takes place in Galway City Library on Thursday, September 25th, 6.30-8.00pm. The Featured Readers are Helen Mort, Lorraine Kelly & Rob Childers. The evening will also see the launch of the latest issue (no. 4) of Skylight 47 poetry newspaper, probably Ireland’s most interesting poetry publication, and the announcement of the shortlist for this year’s Over The Edge New Writer of the Year competition, judged by poet Eleanor Hooker.
Rob Childers
is a retired elementary school teacher from Alaska who now migrates annually
between Alaska, New Zealand and Clifden, Connemara. He is a member of the
Clifden Writer’s Group and has attended Kevin Higgins’s poetry workshops for
the past year. He has read his work on RTE radio and has had poems published in
Skylight 47, and The Tule Review. Rob is longlisted for his poetry in this year’s
Over The Edge New Writer of The Year competition.
Lorraine Kelly
graduated from NUIG in 1989 with a Bachelor Of Arts in English Literature and
became an accountant: the how and the why remains a mystery to this day. Not
one to jump ship easily, she remained in the wonderful world of Finance for 25
years, until she came across a beginners creative writing class with Susan
Millar DuMars; the dormant seed began to grow. She was longlisted for her short
stories in the Over The Edge New Writer of the Year competition in 2013 and is also
longlisted in this year’s competition.
Helen Mort was born in Sheffield
in 1985. Her debut collection Division
Street is published by Chatto & Windus and was shortlisted for the T.S.
Eliot Prize and the Costa Prize. She has published two pamphlets with tall-lighthouse press, 'the shape of every
box' and 'a pint for the ghost', a Poetry Book Society Choice for Spring
2010. Five-times winner of the Foyle Young Poets award, she received an
Eric Gregory Award from The Society of Authors in 2007 and won the Manchester
Young Writer Prize in 2008. In 2010, she became the youngest ever poet in residence at
The Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere. Helen is the new Derbyshire Poet
Laureate. The Daily Telegraph
has described her as “the new star of British poetry”.
Over The Edge acknowledges the ongoing generous financial support of Galway City Council, Poetry Ireland, & The Arts Council.
