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TWO OF Ireland’s leading contemporary writers - Michael Longley and Jennifer Johnston - will be reading at the Cúirt International Festival of Literature later this month.

JESSIE LENDENNIE, the co-founder and managing director of Salmon Poetry, will read at the next Over The Edge in the Galway City Library, St Augustine Street, this evening at 6.30pm.

THE POEMS Gerard Manley Hopkins left us when he died in 1889, have a stylish gloom which makes him strangely representative of the more thoughtful type of Roman Catholic.

THE ACCLAIMED Derry poet Colette Bryce and the playwright and novelist Miriam Gallagher will be reading at two different literary events in Galway next week.

Kilkenny County Council’s Arts Office has announced the launch of the fifth edition of Rhyme Rag, a poetry publication featuring the work of young people.

GALWAY ACADEMIC and musician Seán Crosson has published a new book entitled The Given Note - a major study on the relationship between poetry and Irish trad and song.

As the Kilkenny Arts Festival came to a close, the number of tickets sold for in 2009 was up 25 per cent versus 2008, with the final day's sales still to go.

GIVEN THE flow of negativity that has permeated our daily lives over the last six months, a book that brings with it a sense of positive and sensible calm could be favourably compared with a refreshing elixir of life.

TWO DIFFERENT books, both from Salmon Poetry, will be launched in Sheridan’s Wine Bar, Church Yard Street, on Friday March 13 at 8pm.