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What: Poetry Challenge, Films, Guest Poets & Open-Mic When: Monthly (2nd Monday) @ 9pm (+poetry-films from 8pm) Where: The Long Valley, Winthrop St, Cork. [here’s a map] Original poetry, storytelling and unplugged ceol Ó Bhéal – a poem by Anamaría Crowe Serrano Guest / Open-Mic mp3s: What happened on Monday? Wordshops: Creative Writing at Ó Bhéal and Beyond … Interviews: … with Ó Bhéal guests by Jennifer Matthews Five Words Vol XIII: Submit 5W poems penned at Ó Bhéal |
*** Ópen *** 8th Five Words Poetry Competition *** Ópen ***
Events are posted every 2-3 months. Click names for biographical details
Yuyutsu Sharma & Kobus Moolman – 12th October
Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe with Mícheál McCann & Ashley O’Neal – 9th Nov
the 8th Ó Bhéal Winter Warmer Festival of Poetry – 26th-29th November
The Five Words poetry challenge starts at 8.30pm. Guest poets begin around 9.20pm for up to 20 minutes each, after which follows the usual open-mic session. Be sure to connect early to participate!
followed by the open-mic
For those who missed our end of year reading with Philippe Beck we have all 6 of his poems with English translations on video for you. Philippe gave a wonderful reading followed by a brilliant and large open-mic to end off the year. With thanks to Shane Vaughan for capturing the footage.
(or view on the Ó Bhéal Youtube channel).
followed by the open-mic
For those who missed our end of year reading with Liz Lochhead (the Scots Makar / National poet of Scotland), we have all 13 of Liz’s poems on video for you. Liz gave a fabulous reading and an excellent open-mic followed to end off the year. With thanks to Rab Urquhart for capturing the footage.
(or on the Ó Bhéal Youtube channel).
‘An American fiction writer faces a crisis of self-doubt upon finding the poetry open mic of his literary-tourism dreams in Cork, Ireland’ – World Literature Today
Visiting writer Eric Bosse, Professor in the Expository Writing Program at the University of Oklahoma, came to Ireland to teach travel writing to students for a semester at UCC.
‘And, as I left the pub and raised my umbrella for the long walk to my apartment in the University College Cork dorms, I vowed to carry the spirit of Ó Bhéal home to Oklahoma’.
Enjoy the entire review at World Literature Today right here.
At Ó Bhéal’s 238th event, after a magnificent reading by poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy and musical performance by John Sampson, all sixty-five minutes of which had to remain live for copyright reasons, we managed to video the poets from the open-mic, which you can enjoy right here.
