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Local award-winning poet Seán Lysaght launched a new book called Carnival Masks in the Creel, Westport Quay, last night (Thursday).

To celebrate the publication of his first book of poems, Growling at the Gate, Horseleap poet Patrick Carton will be reciting poetry in the Aiden Heavey, Library Athlone at 4pm on October 3. This is part of National Poetry Day celebrations.

THE NEWBIE writers of Galway are an enterprising lot. Not for them the hours we spent gazing into tepid cappuccinos and complaining about what Cúirt or Poetry Ireland were not doing for us.

The Arts Trust at Galway University Hospital is today celebrating All-Ireland Poetry Day. A poetry project called A Moment in Time has been set up and it will bring a short anthology of poems, selected by renowned poet Mark Roper, to the patients and staff of University Hospital and Merlin Park University Hospital.

Galway-based poet Maureen Gallagher has won the Goldsmith Poetry Award 2011 for her sonnet ‘By The River’.

A Variety Concert will take place on Thursday April 14, in the Set Theatre in aid of locally-based African charity, Kilimanjaro Direct.

PÅRAIC BREATHNACH presenter of The Eleventh Hour on RTE Radio 1, and ‘Jacksie’ in Killinaskully, is to launch a new collection of poetry by renowned Mayo poet Colette Nic Aodha. Scéal ón Oirthear or Story from the West is the name of the new collection which will be launched this evening at the Club Áras Gael, 45 Dominick St, at 8pm.