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Monthly Hybrid Poetry Events: Live Streamed What: Poetry Films, Five Word Challenge, Guest Poets & Open-Mic When: 2nd Monday of each Month @ 8.30pm (+ Poetry Films from 7pm) 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 *** 12th Five Words Poetry Competition *** Ópen ***
Events are posted every 2 months. Click names for biographical details
Ó Bhéal’s 17th Anniversary with the launch of Five Words Vol XVII – 8th April
i.a.w. Foras na Gaeilge Joanne McCarthy and Eoin Mc Evoy – 13th May
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 Comp shortlist
… was screened at Winter Warmer Poetry Festival.
winner of Ó Bhéal’s 11th Poetry-Film Competition!
28th February 2024
We are thrilled to announce the winners and shortlisted entries from Ó Bhéal’s 11th Five Words International Poetry Competition, judged by Theo Dorgan.
Our congratulations go to first place winner Derek Sellen for his poem against cartography, to second place winner Mary Anne Smith Sellen for her poem Gardening in the Otherworld and to third place winner Laura Theis for her poem imagine a field. Remarkably, Derek has won the competition twice before, and Mary Anne has won it once. Marcella Remund, shortlisted beneath, is also listed among our alumni competition winners.
The selection was made from 480 entries representing 16 countries. As per usual, winners will read their entries at Ó Bhéal’s 17th anniversary event, during the launch of Five Words Vol XVII (both online and via zoom, on the 8th April 2024), as will many of the commended (other shortlisted) poets and regular five word challenge contributors.
Congratulations to the shortlisted poets, and our sincere thanks to all who entered!
| against cartography | by Derek Sellen (England) 1st | |
| Gardening in the Otherworld | by Mary Anne Smith Sellen (England) 2nd | |
| imagine a field | by Laura Theis (England) 3rd | |
| Inheritance | by Alison McCrossan (Ireland) | |
| Storm Glass | by Brian Kirk (Ireland) | |
| self-care für unsichtbare | by Laura Theis (England) | |
| To Be Done Before Anything Drastic | by J.A.Speta (USA) | |
| A Tale for No Tail | by Mary Louise Kiernan (USA) | |
| Out of the Woods | by Kevin Conroy (Ireland) | |
| Rapture | by Marcella Remund (USA) | |
| For Sam Lawler, Who Used His Gun | by Tracy Newlands (Australia) | |
| Leaving Ursa Minor | by John D. Kelly (N.Ireland) |
The 12th Five Words International Competition will commence at noon on Tuesday the 9th of April 2024, and will continue until the 28th of January 2025.
