LEADING POET John Goodby will read from his work at The November Over The Edge: Open Reading in the Galway City Library, on Thursday November 20 at 6.30pm.
John Goodby lectures at the University of Swansea. His poetry has been described by Sean O’Brien as “bold and sensuous...it reads like a chowder of names laced with methedrine...at once lush and abrasive.”
He is the author of the influential Irish Poetry Since 1950: From Stillness into History (Manchester University Press ) and founder of Wales’s only poetry performance group, Boiled String. He also works a translator.
Also reading on the night are Elizabeth Power, whose poetry has appeared in Crannóg, Force 10, and Tribes‘n’Vibes, and Gordon Hewitt, who initiated the Belfast Poets Touring Group, now known as Scream Blue Murmur.
There will be an open-mic when the featured readers have finished. New readers are especially welcome. For more information contact 087 - 6431748.
