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LOUIS DE PAOR, Eamonn Wall, and Alan McMonagle are among the writers reading at the Over The Edge Writers’ Gathering at the Galway City Library on Thursday June 25 at 6.30pm.

THE CÚIRT International Festival of Literature began life 30 years ago as a festival dedicated exclusively to poetry. Its remit is wider today, but poetry remains a key factor.

WATCHING MY Hands At Work, an anthology of poetry, fiction, drama, and essays honouring NUI Galway’s Prof Adrian Frazier is to be launched.

THE 2011 Over The Edge Poetry Book Showcase takes place on Friday February 11 at 8pm in Café 8 at The Galway City Museum.

LOUIS DE PAOR’S agus rud eile/and another thing was first published in the original Irish eight years ago. In this new edition by Cló Iar-Chonnachta, English language translations perform a valuable service by making the work of one of our best poets available to a wider audience.

THE POETS Louis de Paor, Chris Agee, Chris Nikkel, Kevin O’Shea, and Marcella Morgan will read from their work at Sheridan’s Wine Bar on Friday May 7 at 8pm.

SOME OF the Titans of Irish trad - Frankie Gavin, Máirtín O’Connor, Garry O’Briain, Steve Cooney, and Mary McPartlan, will be in concert at the Bailey Allen Hall, NUI, Galway, on Thursday March 25 at 8pm.

AGUS RUD Eile De/And Another Thing is a collaboration of three different artists working in three different mediums - poetry, art, and music - all contained within a book and CD.

While Labour TD Michael D Higgins is known as a very fine poet, the Mayor of Galway Cllr Padraig Conneely will be reciting verse and stanza for National Poetry Day.

John Spillane will perform at The Royal Castlebar Theatre and Event Centre on Friday January 9. John Spillane is well known in the world of music and has received both national and international acclaim as a singer/songwriter. John is a native of Cork, the county he lovingly describes as “the centre of the universe” and it has been a huge influence on this modern-day troubadour. Vocally, Spillane is quite unique with an almost sean nós element and has been described as having a voice “full of honesty, commitment and sensitivity”.