Noel King, Clare Sawtell and Mary O'Sullivan for Gort, Co. Galway

galway | arts and media | event notice Thursday May 06, 2010 15:01 by Fred Johnston - The Western Writers' Centre - Ionad Scríbhneoirí Chaitlín Maude, Galway westernwriters at eircom dot net Canavan House, Nuns Island, Galway 087.2178138

The Gallery Café on June 10th for poetry and music

Poet débuts his collection to a musical background

NOEL KING was born and lives in Tralee, Ireland. His poems have been published in over thirty countries in journals such as: A Bard Hair Day, Canopy, Cork Literary Review, Cyphers, Eclipse, Fife Lines, Image Nation, Kotaz, Merseyside Arts Journal, Moonstone, New England Review, New Orphic Review, Orbis, Perimeter, Poetry Ireland Review, Poetry Salzburg Review, Pulsar, still, Studies, The Poet Tree, Ropes, THE SHOp, The Stinging Fly, Studies, The Sunday Tribune, The Word and Zygote. His debut collection, Prophesying the Past, appears from Salmon in 2010. Clare Sawtell, a cellist, has already produced one collection of poems and she and musician Mary O'Sullivan (accordeon and vocals) have played music together at many readings in the area.

The event starts at 8pm, Thursday, June 10th.