Over The Edge Open Reading

Open Mic Event

Contact: http://overtheedgeliteraryevents.blogspot.com

The Featured Readers are Jean Kavanagh, Paul Casey and Mary O’Donnell.

Mary O’Donnell’s first three poetry collections Reading the Sunflowers in September; Spiderwoman’s Third Avenue Rhapsody; Unlegendary Heroes were published by Salmon Poetry. Her 2003 collection September Elegies was published by Lapwing Press, Belfast and her selected poems, The Place of Miracles, by New Island in 2006. A sixth collection The Ark Builders, appeared from Arc Publications UK in Autumn 2009. She has also written three novels and two collections of short stories. She currently teaches poetry at NUI Maynooth and is co-editor of an anthology of translated poetry from Galicia, Northern Spain, due from Salmon in May this year: http://www.maryodonnell.com

Paul Casey was born in Cork in 1968. He has lived in a number of countries in Europe and Africa working mostly in film, multimedia and teaching. Paul taught scriptwriting at the Nelson Mandela University in South Africa. He now organises the weekly Ó Bhéal poetry event in Cork city. His poetry and reviews have appeared in a number of Irish journals including THE SHOp, Revival, Cork Literary Review, Southword and Census. A chapbook of Paul’s longer poems, It’s Not All Bad, was published by Heaventree Press in May 2009 and he is working towards his first full collection.

Jean Kavanagh is originally from Dublin, and is now living in Lahinch, Co.Clare. She co-founded The Cascades writing group in Ennistymon in 2001, and is now partaking in Kevin Higgins’s Advanced Poetry Workshop in The Galway Arts Centre. Last year her work was published in its showcase anthology, Lady Gregory's Townhouse. She has read her poetry at Clifden Arts Week and at last year’s National Poetry Day event for County Clare.

There will be an open-mic when the Featured Readers have finished. This is open to anyone who has a poem or story to share. New readers are always especially welcome. The MC for the evening will be Susan Millar DuMars.

Entry: Free

Time: 6:30pm