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SIX LEADING Irish and international comedians will present six new shows at the Laughter Lounge in the Róisín Dubh for this year’s Galway Comedy Festival

ROMANIAN POET Denisa Mirena Piscu will read at the Over The Edge: Open Reading in the Galway City Library, St Augustine Street, on Thursday October 29 at 6.30pm.

LINTON KWESI Johnson describes himself as a “reggae artist who is also a poet” and his commitment to reggae and radical politics is as strong now as when he began in the late 1970s.

The redevelopment of Ballina Arts Centre launched The Final Push programme last Wednesday. The new state of the art, centre for Ballina has got funding from various sources and those behind the project launched The Final Push in Murphy’s Longnecks during the week. The campaign needs to raise €500,000 locally for the project and they are asking for local support for it. For more information on the redevelopment log on to www.ballinaartscentre.com/redevelopment.

A NEW series of poetry collections - In Sight of Home by Nessa O’Mahony, Pluto’s Noon Sky by Gary King, and Playing Poohsticks on Ha’Penny Bridge by Edward Lee - illustrate that there is no right way and no wrong way to write poetry.

The Galway University Hospitals Arts Trust has launched a 2010 calendar featuring artwork by patients of Unit 5 and Unit 6 of Merlin Park University Hospital.

TRANSLATIONS OF the French poet, Colette Wittorski, by the Galway based poet, author, and critic Fred Johnston, have just been published by Lapwing Poetry, Belfast.

THE SPIN-DOCTORS of the poetry world so often reach for the term “long-awaited” when describing a new collection of poetry that its meaning has mostly been drained away.

THE OVER The Edge readings will celebrate its seventh birthday on Thursday January 21 with a reading by the poet David Wheatley in the Galway City Library.