JAPANESE POET Hisa Kagawa will be the featured reader at the 2010 Over The Edge Poetry Book Showcase at Sheridan’s Wine Bar, near St Nicholas’, on Friday February 12 at 8pm.
Ms Kagawa will be just one of a host of readers featured at the event. The showcase is an annual retrospective of the year just past and every Galway-based poet who published a new collection during 2009 will read three poems from the collection in question.
Reading on the night are Órfhlaith Foyle, Celeste Augé, Gary King, Gerard Hanberry, Ed Madden, Dave Rock, Edward Lee, John Corless, Patricia Byrne, Colette NicAodha, Geraldine Mills, Mary Hanlon, Eamonn Bonner, James Martyn, Alan Garvey, Deirdre Kearney, Terry McDonagh, and Jessie Lendennie.
All are welcome. For more information contact 087 - 6431748.