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In 2016 The Stinging Fly magazine described Kevin Higgins as ‘likely Ireland’s most read Irish poet’. Kevin who passed away this week was a passionate and popular poet, a satirist, a fine wordsmith, a romantic with real powers of evocation and a gentle presence too.

President Michael D Higgins paid tribute last night to poet Kevin Higgins who passed away on Tuesday after a short illness.

Over The Edge, Galway City's literary events organisation, organise readings of poetry and fiction at a variety of venues around Galway City. The December ‘Over The Edge: Open Reading’ will take place in Galway City Library on Thursday, December 15 from 6-7.30pm.

Creative Writing for Beginners with Kevin Higgins takes place one evening per week (Monday) from 7-9.30pm (10 weeks). It commences on Monday, September 12, 2022. Advance booking is essential. Places cost €140. Kevin Higgins will provide writing exercises for, and give gentle critical feedback to, those interested in trying their hand at writing stories, poems, or memoir.

The Cúirt International Festival of Literature is back, filling venues across Galway with wordsmiths and their works from April 4 to 10.

TWO POETS and a fiction writer will be the main readers at the next Over The Edge: Open Reading on Zoom on Thursday March 24 at 6.30pm.

POETS AND playwrights, and the launch of issue 15 of Skylight 47, will make up the first Over The Edge: Open Reading of 2022.

TWO LOCAL writers - Denise Commins and Ódhrán Reidy - and an American writer - Sue Pace - will read at the Final Over The Edge of 2021.

WITH 2021 winding to a close and 2022 on the horizon, many will be looking ahead to what they can finally get around to doing in the New Year.