Summer poetry extravaganza at Sheridan’s Wine Bar

galway | arts and media | event notice Tuesday June 26, 2007 16:07 by Over The Edge

Over The Edge presents a reading by Eamonn Wall, Celeste Auge & Michael O’Loughlin, plus the Galway launch of Trio, a collection showcasing Limerick poets, Noel Harrington, Ger Sheehy and Edward O’Dwyer at Sheridan’s Wine Bar, 14-16 Church Yard Street, Galway on Friday, July 13th, 8pm.

Missouri-based, Wexford-born poet Eamonn Wall

Eamonn Wall, born and raised in Co. Wexford, has lived in the US since 1982 and is now settled in Missouri. His poetry collections are Dyckman--200th Street (1994), Iron Mountain Road (1997), The Crosses (2000), and Refuge at Desoto Bend (2004) all published by Salmon. From the Sin-é Café to the Black Hills (2000), a volume of essays on the Irish Diaspora, received the Michael J. Durkan Prize from the American Conference for Irish Studies for excellence in scholarship. Eamonn Wall teaches at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.

Celeste Auge was born in Canada, but moved to Ireland when she was twelve years old. She now lives in County Galway. Her poems have appeared in a wide variety of literary journals in Ireland and internationally. She has read her work at Poetry Ireland Introductions and also read at the inaugural Cuirt Festival/Over The Edge showcase reading in April 2006. In 2006 she was awarded the Assistance Towards Publication Grant by Galway County Council. Tornadoes For The Weathergirl, a chapbook of her poems, was published in November 2006. Celeste has new poems forthcoming in Poetry Ireland Review.

Michael O’Loughlin was born in Dublin in 1958. His poetry collections are Stalingrad: The Street Dictionary (1980); Atlantic Blues (1982); The Diary of a Silence (1985); and Another Nation, New & Selected Poems (New Island Books, 1994/UK Arc Publications, 1996). He published a collection of short stories, The Inside Story (Raven Arts Press, 1999). Michael is also a screenwriter, his most recent feature film is Snapshots (2002).He has lived for many years in continental Europe, mostly Amsterdam but recently returned to Ireland. He is Galway City Council’s Writer In Residence. He is currently completing a new collection of poems.

This reading will be preceded by the Galway-launch of the Revival 'Trio', a collection by Limerick-based poets Noel Harrington, Edward O’Dwyer and Gerard Sheehy
recently published by Revival Press, Limerick

Noel Harrington is from Tuamgraney in Co Clare. In his 20s he did the customary living abroad thing (Copenhagen, Munich, New York etc) and has washed more than his fair share of dishes. In his final year studying for a BA at Maynooth, he won the University's top award for literature, the Barbara Hayley Memorial Prize. Has had work published in Revival and will be appearing in a future issue of The Stinging Fly.

Gerard Sheehy was born in Limerick and has lived there for most of his life. He is a regular reader at the White House Poetry Revival nights. Previous work has been published in the Microphone On anthology and Revival.

Edward O Dwyer is 22 and from Limerick. He's been writing seriously since June 2006, which incidentally is the time he began going to the White House in Limerick. He holds a first class honours degree in English and Media & Communications (U.L.) and in September begins a H.Dip in secondary school teaching (N.U.I Cork). He has been previously published in Revival.

There is no entrance fee. All welcome. For further information contact 087-6431748 or e-mail
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Over The Edge acknowledges the financial support of the Arts Council and Galway City Council.