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Monthly Hybrid Poetry Events: Guest Poets Listed Below What: Poetry Films, Five Word Challenge, Guest Poets & Open-Mic When: 2nd Monday of each Month @ 7pm (Live Streamed from 8.30pm) Where: Hayloft Bar (Long Valley Bar), Winthrop St, Cork (& online). Guest Poet & Open-Mic mp3s: Monday Event Archive Wordshops: Creative Writing at Ó Bhéal and Beyond … Ó Bhéal – a poem by Anamaría Crowe Serrano |
*** Ópen *** 11th Five Words Poetry Competition *** Ópen ***
Events are posted every 2 months. Click names for biographical details
for the Cork Harbour Festival Sarah Hymas and John O’Donnell – 12th June
Gail McConnell & Gerry Boland – 10th July
Events are held in the Hayloft Bar, upstairs at the Long Valley, Winthrop st,as well as on Zoom and streamed via obheal.ie/live (more details via the links above)
Poetry Films start from 7.00pm (45mins – Not Streamed). Five Word challenge starts at 8.30pm.
Guest poets begin at around 9.20/9.30pm, Open-Mic session from 10.30pm.
The 11th Ó Bhéal Poetry-Film Competition
… is now
Ópen for entries!View submission guidelines at this link.
6th March 2023
David Ross Linklater
We are delighted to announce the winners and shortlisted entries from our 10th Five Words International Poetry Competition, judged by Victoria Kennefick. Our warm congratulations to first place winner David Ross Linklater for his poem Lighthouse / Mother, to second place winner Alison McCrossan for her poem Walking alone and to third place winner Glyn Matthews for his poem Terms of Endearment.
The selection was made from 481 entries representing 24 countries. Winners will read their entries at Ó Bhéal’s 16th anniversary event, during the launch of Five Words Vol XVI (both online and via zoom on the 10th April 2023), as will most of the shortlisted poets and our regular five word challenge contributors.
Congratulations to all the shortlisted poets and our sincere thanks to all who entered!
| Lighthouse / Mother | by David Ross Linklater (Scotland) 1st | |
| Walking alone | by Alison McCrossan (Ireland) 2nd | |
| Terms of Endearment | by Glyn Matthews (England) 3rd | |
| Shive | by David W Evans (Jersey) | |
| Gifted | by Laura Theis (England) | |
| After Eunice | by Jill Munro (England) | |
| Scut | by John Baylis Post (England) | |
| Fump | by Phoebe Colby (Canada) | |
| It Isn’t Inevitable, Just Likely | by Dante Miller (USA) | |
| In praise of liminality | by Gabrielle Deakin (Spain) | |
| The University Of Brattleboro And The Uncluttered Table | by Rolf Parker-Houghton (USA) | |
| Then There Was Only One Foetal Heartbeat | by Mandy Beattie (Scotland) |
The 11th Five Words International Competition will commence at noon on Tuesday the 11th of April 2023 and continue until the 30th of January 2024.
