The poet, Van Morrison, and their native Belfast

Literature Reviews Thu, Jan 04, 2018

AT FIRST glance the reader could be forgiven for thinking Gerald Dawe’s new book, In Another World - Van Morrison and Belfast, is a memoir of Van and his life in Belfast. There is some justification for this, but Dawe's short volume is so much more, and in fact packs one hell of a punch.

Creative writing classes at Galway Arts Centre

Thu, Jan 04, 2018

DAYTIME CREATIVE writing classes take place this month, in the Galway Arts Centre, Dominick Street, and will be taught by the poet and short story writer Susan Millar DuMars.

A poet of whom Markievicz would have approved

Literature Reviews Thu, Jan 04, 2018

THE RECENT Cambridge Companion to Irish Poets has been criticised on the grounds that the gender balance is skewed in favour of those in permanent possession of a penis.

Creative writing classes at Galway Arts Centre

Thu, Dec 28, 2017

POET AND short story writer Susan Millar DuMars will host a series of creative writing classes, for those interested in either poetry or fiction, starting in the New Year in the Galway Arts Centre.

The classes are aimed at beginner and continuing creative writing students, and take place on Mondays, from 2.30pm to 4pm, starting January 22, and running for 10 weeks. Susan is the author of the short story collections Lights In The Distance (2010) and the poetry collections Big Pink Umbrella (2008), Dreams For Breakfast (2010), The God Thing (2013), and Bone Fire (2016). She is also co-organiser of the Over The Edge reading series.

New Year poetry workshops

Thu, Dec 28, 2017

ANYONE WHO has long wanted to write poems, but is unsure howe to begin, or even what the methods are, should check out the poetry workshops coming to the Galway Arts Centre.

The classes will be taught by Kevin Higgins, whose poetry collections, The Boy With No Face (2006), Time Gentlemen, Please (2008), Frightening New Furniture (2010), The Ghost in the Lobby (2014), and Song of Songs 2:0 – New & Selected Poems (2017), are all published by Salmon Poetry.

New Year creative writing classes @ GTI

Thu, Dec 14, 2017

THOSE DETERMINED not to let 2018 pas without finally putting pen to paper, and composing the poems of that story they have had in their head for ages, can begin with creative writing classes in the Galway Technical Institute.

Final Over The Edge for 2017

Thu, Dec 07, 2017

A BRAZILIAN woman, a Welsh woman, and an Irishman will walk into the Galway City Library next week, not in a manner that will create the opening line of a joke, but rather to read from their fiction and poetry.

My advice for Ken Bruen

Literature Reviews Thu, Dec 07, 2017

A RECENT article in the Galway Advertiser noted: "Ken Bruen has been weirdly neglected by Galway’s cultural establishment, having never been invited to read at Cúirt or the Galway International Arts Festival, or received any other official recognition.”

Award winning writers announced to read at Cúirt

Wed, Dec 06, 2017

Winter’s Bone author and acclaimed American ‘country noir’ novelist, Daniel Woodrell; Pulitzer Prize-Winning American poet, Jorie Graham; and award winning Irish author Bernard MacLaverty, will all read at next year's Cúirt festival.

Alan McMonagle and Moya Roddy in conversation

Thu, Nov 30, 2017

THE WRITERS Alan McMonagle and Moya Roddy will speak about their work and discuss 'What is imagination?', at Scrutable, a literary event taking place in The Black Gate Cultural Centre, St Francis Street.

Peter Kennedy to launch new children's books

Thu, Nov 23, 2017

PETER KENNEDY, the Belfastman who has been playing the Renmore Panto's pantomime dame for the past 14 years, and writing its scripts for 12 years, is about to launch his latest venture - children's books.

Of witches and mermaids

Literature Reviews Thu, Nov 23, 2017

JUST PICKING up Deirdre Sullivan's Tangleweed and Brine is a pleasure. There is a tactile joy in holding it and when opened, wandering through its pages, enjoying the design and wonderful illustrations by Karen Vaughan.

A different view on the odes of John Keats

Thu, Nov 23, 2017

THE POETRY of John Keats is often discussed in terms of the poet's appreciation of beauty and sensuousness, but a new book by a Galway academic argues there is more to the man's work than that.

An evening of poetry at Over The Edge

Thu, Nov 09, 2017

THE POETS Gillian Hamill, Ursula Shields-Huemer, and Penelope Shuttle will read at the next Over The Edge: Open Reading in the Galway City Library, which also sees the launch of the new issue of Skylight 47.

What Lenin has to teach us

Literature Reviews Thu, Nov 02, 2017

LENIN FOR Today is neither a historical study nor a biography but an attempt by long time Socialist Workers Party member – and leading light in People Before Profit – John Molyneaux to make a case for Lenin’s ideas and organisational methods in the here and now.

What's Lenin's relevance for today?

Thu, Oct 26, 2017

OCTOBER 2017 marks the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, the "10 days that shook the world" in the words of American journalist John Reed, but what is its relevance for today?

A non-fiction Over The Edge

Thu, Oct 19, 2017

NORMALLY THE Over The Edge readings at Galway City Library feature poets and prose writers, but this month's reading will be different, as it will present work by non-fiction authors Angela Nagle, Fiona Neary, and Jonathan Sugarman.

Galway Cartoon Festival makes its bow

Tue, Oct 17, 2017

A NEW entry into the city’s crowded calendar of festivals is the Galway Cartoon Festival, which arrives next week and runs from October 21 to 30, with the aim of celebrating and showcasing drawings which make us laugh and make us think.

Book review: Poets unblinking in the face of breast cancer

Literature Reviews Thu, Oct 12, 2017

IF YOU are a woman, or have a mother, wife, girlfriend, sister, or daughter, the poems included in this new anthology, Bosom Pals: Eight Poets Share Their Experience of Breast Cancer could, some day, perhaps even today, prove invaluable.

Fiction Slam - read your story out loud!

Thu, Oct 05, 2017

THERE ARE many slam events for poets, but fiction writers never get the same look it. To rectify this, the ninth Over The Edge annual fiction slam returns to The Kitchen at the Galway City Museum next week.

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