Danielle Holian launches new poetry collection
Thu, Oct 07, 2021
SURVIVING YOU, the third poetry collection, or rather “a story told through poetry”, by Galway based writer Danielle Holian, has just been published.
Read more ...Three poets go Over The Edge
Thu, Sep 23, 2021
THE POETS Hannah Lowe, D'or Seifer, and Liz O’Riordan will be the readers at the Over The Edge: Open Reading on Zoom on Thursday September 30 at 6.30pm.
Read more ...One man’s doomed attempt at stand-up comedy
Thu, Sep 16, 2021
THREE YEARS after this critically acclaimed comic short story collection, Juggling With Turnips, Karl MacDermott returns with a comic novel - 58% Cabbage.
Read more ...Catherine Corless to launch her memoir in Galway
Mon, Sep 06, 2021
CATHERINE CORLESS, the historian whose work brought to light the deaths and burials of hundreds of children at the Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home in Tuam, and which led to the establishment of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission, will launch a memoir this month.
Read more ...The thrills, pills, and bellyaches of being a Marxist poet
Thu, Sep 02, 2021
THE PAMPHLET was the chief means by which an 18th century man - particularly one with revolutionary zeal - with things to say got those things off his chest.
Read more ...Rita Ann Higgins receives 2021 Living Poets Society Award
Thu, Aug 26, 2021
GALWAY POET Rita Ann Higgins was presented with the the Living Poets Society Award 2021 at the recent Power of Words Festival in Abbeyleix, last weekend.
Read more ...Barbara Rockman to read at this month’s Over The Edge
Thu, Aug 19, 2021
THE AWARD WINNING poet, Barbara Rockman, along with poets Siobhan Potter and Hannah Ward, will read at the August Over The Edge: Open Reading on Zoom.
Read more ...Poetry workshops in September
Thu, Aug 19, 2021
POETRY WORKSHOPS from beginner to advanced levels, with the poet, Kevin Higgins, begin in September and take place via Zoom.
Read more ...Online creative writing classes for the autumn
Thu, Aug 12, 2021
CREATIVE WRITING classes with the poet Kevin Higgins, and the post and short story writer Susan Millert DuMars, will begin in September.
Read more ...Midnight Macabre - weird and scary stories from Rab Fulton
Tue, Jul 20, 2021
MIDNIGHT MACABRE, an online reading of horror stories by the Galway based, Scottish writer Rab Fulton, takes place this week.
Read more ...Galway poet Mary Lee to launch new collection
Thu, Jul 15, 2021
MARY LEE, the acclaimed Galway poet will launch her latest collection of poetry, Everyday Epiphanies at a special Zoom event on Friday July 23 at 7pm.
Read more ...New novel explores life from an Irish language viewpoint
Thu, Jul 08, 2021
AN TAOIBH Eile Den Scamall, the new novel by Galway born author Conor Bowman - his first novel as Gaeilge - has just been published by Arlen House.
Read more ...Local writer takes his place among the nation's greats
Tue, Jul 06, 2021
GALWAY WRITER Jim Ward will feature alongside Kevin Barry, Lisa McInerney, and Roddy Doyle in a new anthology, The 32 – Anthology of Irish Working Class Voices.
Read more ...John Cooper Clarke - legendary punk poet returns of Galway
Mon, Jun 21, 2021
"I SAY to people, have you heard of John Cooper Clarke and if they say, ‘Yes, yeah he's an absolute genius’, and you just go, 'Oh - OK, you've saved me a lot of time."
Read more ...Black Lives Matter - a night of poetry and discussion
Thu, Jun 17, 2021
TWO POETRY anthologies, which have emerged from the Black Lives Matter movements in both the USA and Britain, will get an Irish launch at the next Over The Edge reading.
Read more ...Jack Taylor’s theatre of the absurd
Literature Reviews Thu, May 27, 2021
IN THE final novel in his Jack Taylor series, Ken Bruen’s most famous creation meets his end on Wolfe Tone Bridge after coming into sudden contact with the wrong end of a decidedly unfriendly blade.
Read more ...Three writers go Over The Edge
Thu, May 20, 2021
A WOMAN from Phoenix, a man from Los Angeles, and a student from Galway will be the featured readers at the next Over The Edge: Open Reading on Zoom.
Read more ...Tommy Tiernan to open Druid’s Coole Park Poetry Series
Mon, May 17, 2021
COMEDIAN TOMMY Tiernan will be the first of 10 performers reading works by some of Ireland’s greatest poets in Druid’s Coole Park Poetry Series.
Read more ...Over The Edge to launch next issue of Skylight 47
Thu, May 06, 2021
AWARD WINNING poet, Grace Wells, will next week launch the next issue of Skylight 47, “possibly Ireland's most interesting poetry publication”.
Read more ...Calling all aspiring young authors
Thu, May 06, 2021
Does your child love writing? A new Galway based education company is running an online creative writing course for aspiring young authors in mid-May.
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