July Over The Edge Writers’ Gathering
at Galway City Library
presents
readings by
Justin Conboy, & Diane Fahey,
a Showcase
reading from the anthology
Leabhar na
hAthghabhála
Poems of
Repossession
(published by
Bloodaxe
edited by Louis
de Paor),
& the GALWAY LAUNCH
of Alvy Carragher’s debut poetry
collection
Falling in love
with broken things
(published by
Salmon)
on Thursday, July 14th,6.30pm
The
July Over The Edge Writers’ Gathering
presents readings by fiction writers, poets, and translators Justin Conboy,
Diane Fahey, Micheál Ó Cuaig, Colbert Kearney, & the Galway launch of Alvy
Carragher’s debut poetry collection Falling
in love with broken things (published by Salmon). The event will take place
at Galway City Library, St. Augustine Street on Thursday, July 14th, 6.30pm.
All are welcome. There is no cover charge.
Justin Conboy hails from
Salthill, Galway. Ireland. He graduated in 2015 as an Engineer from NUI Galway
where computers and mathematics were his first love. Justin soon extended his
love to writing and hence combined these attributes into writing his first
novel, Code Thief, which was
published in May.
Diane Fahey is an Australian poet and lives in a bayside
town on the Bellarine Peninsula. She is the author of twelve poetry
collections, most recently A House by the River (Puncher & Wattmann,
2016). The Wing Collection: New & Selected Poems (2011) and The
Stone Garden: Poems from Clare (2013) were both shortlisted for major book
awards. Sea Wall and River Light, a collection of poems set in Barwon
Heads, received the ACT government's Judith Wright Poetry Award in 2007.
Among her awards for individual poems are the Newcastle Poetry Prize and the
Wesley Michel Wright Award. Diane has received literary grants from the
Victorian and South Australian Governments, and from the Australia Council,
including a grant in 2014 to support the writing of a book on the West of
Ireland. She took part in Australian Poetry's 2013 International Poetry Tour of
Ireland. Past writing residencies have taken her to Venice, the Tyrone Guthrie
Centre in Ireland, Hawthornden Castle International Writers' Retreat in
Scotland, and to Varuna, the National Writers House, and Bundanon, both in
N.S.W. She has been writer in residence at Ormond College, Melbourne, and the
University of Adelaide. Her website: <dianefaheypoet.com>
Louis de Paor is Director of the Centre for Irish Studies at NUI
Galway and one of the leading Irish language poets. He is editor of the anthology Leabhar na hAthghabhála -Poems of
Repossession (published recently by Bloodaxe). He will introduce the readings
from Leabhar na hAthghabhála on the
evening.
A
native of Cill Chiaráin, Micheál Ó Cuaig is a sean nós singer
and the author of highly regarded
collections of Irish poetry, such as Uchtóga (1985) and Clocha Reatha (1986)
which critics have applauded for their emotional delicacy and scrupulous use of
language. His poems feature in Leabhar na hAthghabhála.
Colbert Kearney was born in Dublin, went to school in Garbally Park
and attended University College Dublin and Cambridge University. He is emeritus professor of English at
University College Cork and has published studies of Brendan Behan and Sean
O’Casey. He has also published a novel, The Consequence, and has recently
completed a memoir of his parents. A
major influence on his life was his Finglas National School teacher, Eoghan Ó
Tuairisc, whose ‘Aifreann na Marbh’ he translated for Leabhar na hAthghabhála.
Alvy Carragher's first
collection of poems Falling in Love with
Broken Things has been published by Salmon Poetry this year. She is an
award-winning poet and blogger. Her work has appeared in The Irish Times, The
Galway Review, Poet Head, Skylight 47 and many others. She was selected for the
Poetry Ireland Introduction Series 2016 and represented the group at a reading
in New York.
There is no
entrance fee.
For further
information contact 087-6431748.
Over The Edge
acknowledges the ongoing generous financial support of the Arts Council, Poetry Ireland, and Galway City Council.
