{"id":11660,"date":"2019-03-23T16:50:57","date_gmt":"2019-03-23T16:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/?page_id=11660"},"modified":"2019-05-31T15:32:04","modified_gmt":"2019-05-31T15:32:04","slug":"guests-72-apr-may-2019","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/guest-poets\/guests-72-apr-may-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Guests (72) Apr\/May 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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April and May<\/strong><\/center>\n\n
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1st April<\/em>\n\nFaye Boland<\/strong>\n\nYou can listen to Faye’s reading here<\/a>.\n\n<\/center>\n\n<\/span>Faye Boland<\/strong> won the Robert Leslie Boland Prize 2018 and the Hanna Greally International Literary Award 2017. She was shortlisted in 2013 for the Poetry on the Lake XIII International Poetry Competition. Her first poetry collection Peripheral<\/i> was published in September 2018 by The Manuscript Publisher. She is a member of Clann na Farraige writers group in Kenmare, Co.Kerry. <\/span>\n\n \n\n
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8th April<\/em>\n\nTerry McDonagh<\/strong>\n\nYou can listen to Terry’s reading here<\/a>.\n\n<\/center>\n\n<\/span>Terry McDonagh<\/strong>, poet and dramatist works in Europe, Asia and Australia. He\u2019s taught creative writing at Hamburg University and was Drama Director at the International School. He\u2019s currently working with Cuirt, Dublin West Education, Mayo County Council, International School Bonn and others. He\u2019s published eleven poetry collections as well as letters, drama, prose and poetry for young people. <\/span>\n\nMcDonagh’s work has been translated into German and Indonesian. His latest collection Fourth Floor Flat \u2013 44 Cantos<\/i>, was published autumn 2018 by Arlen House. He lives in Hamburg and Mayo.<\/span>\n \n\n
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15th April<\/em>\n\n\u00d3 Bh\u00e9al’s 12th Anniversary<\/span> & Mary Anne Smith<\/strong>\n(600+ nights of Poetry)<\/span>\n\ncelebrates Five Words Volume XII<\/strong> and an open-mic for Only Other Poets’ Poetry<\/strong><\/span>\n\nYou can listen to Mary Anne Smith’s reading here<\/a>\nand to the shortlisted poets & contributors to Five Words Vol XII here<\/a>.\n\n<\/center>\n\n<\/span>\u00d3 Bh\u00e9al’s 12th Anniversary<\/strong> event celebrates the launch of Five Words Volume XII<\/em> and the winner of our 6th Five Words International Poetry competition, Mary Anne Smith<\/span><\/strong>. Other shortlisted poems will also be read on the night – as will poems by contributors to \u00d3 Bh\u00e9al’s Monday night Five Word Challenges held over the past 12 months. The anniversary open-mic is only for poems written by other poets<\/em>, so bring a favourite or two!<\/span>\n
Our congratulations to <\/em><\/span> Mary Anne Smith<\/span><\/strong>\n \n\nwinner of the 6th <\/span>Five Words International Poetry Competition<\/span><\/strong>\n \n\n<\/center>\n\n<\/span>Prize-winning writer Mary Anne Smith<\/strong>‘s work has been recognised in both national and international competitions. Most recently she won first prize in the November 2017 Sentinel Literary Quarterly competition for her poem Dreamland<\/i>, and second prize in their August 2018 competition for Rural Living<\/i>. Two of her poems, Unbroken<\/i> and The Lych Bell<\/i>, were shortlisted in the 2018 Hungry Hill Writers ‘Poets Meet Politics’ competition. <\/span>\n\nMary Anne’s work has been published by Confluence Medway, Camden Lumen Poetry, Spilling Cocoa over Martin Amis<\/i>, and The Kentish Gazette<\/i>, and broadcast on radio programmes and podcasts in both the UK and the USA. In May 2017 she co-developed and took part in a poetry and music event ‘The Colours of Love’ at the Wise Words Festival in Canterbury, and is one of the four poets on the bill for the 2019 WhitLit Festival, in Whitstable, Kent. The natural world, landscape, architecture, history and art are all influences on Mary Anne’s work. She is currently working on poems towards her first full collection. Mary Anne is a bookseller who lives and works in Canterbury. <\/span>\n\n \n\n
\n\n<\/span>The 7th<\/strong> Five Words International Poetry Competition<\/span><\/strong> will begin on Tuesday the 16th of April 2019 (at midday GMT) and run for 41 weeks until the 28th of January 2020. Judges will be announced soon. For submission guidelines and previous winners, visit the competition page here<\/a>.<\/span>\n\n \n \n\n
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22nd April<\/em>\n\nMajella Kelly <\/strong>\n\nYou can listen to Majella’s reading here<\/a>.\n\n<\/center>\n\n<\/span>Majella Kelly<\/strong> is from Tuam, Co. Galway. In 2018 she won the Annual Ambit Poetry Prize, came second in the Gregory O’Donoghue International Poetry Prize, and was shortlisted for a Hennessy Literary Award. In 2017 she was nominated by Crann\u00f3g for a Pushcart Prize and selected for the Poetry Ireland Introductions Series. In 2016 she came third in the Resurgence Eco Poetry Prize (now the Ginkgo Prize). <\/span>\n\nHer poetry has been widely published in such places as The Irish Times, Poetry Ireland Review, Southword, Ambit, Cyphers, The Pickled Body, The Well Review, Best New British<\/i> & Irish Poets 2017<\/i>, and Aesthetica’s Creative Writing Annual 2017 & 2018<\/i>. She holds a Masters in Creative Writing from the University of Oxford. <\/span>\n\n
For more information visit:majellakelly.com<\/a><\/span><\/center>\n \n\n
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29th April<\/em>\n\nTania Hershman <\/strong>\n\nYou can listen to Tania’s reading here<\/a>.\n\n<\/center>\n\n<\/span>Tania Hershman<\/strong>‘s debut poetry collection, Terms & Conditions<\/i>, appeared from Nine Arches Press in July 2017 and her third short story collection, Some Of Us Glow More Than Others<\/i>, is published by Unthank Books. Tania is also the author of a poetry chapbook, Nothing Here Is Wild<\/i>, Everything Is Open<\/i>, and two short story collections, My Mother Was An Upright Piano<\/i>, and The White Road and Other Stories<\/i>, and co-author of Writing Short Stories: A Writers’ & Artists’ Companion<\/i> (Bloomsbury, 2014). <\/span>\n\nTania is curator of short story hub ShortStops (www.shortstops.info<\/a>), celebrating short story activity across the UK & Ireland, has a PhD in creative writing inspired by particle physics and is writer-in-residence in Manchester’s Southern Cemetery. <\/span>\n\n
Find out more about Tania here: taniahershman.com<\/a>\nsoundcloud.com\/taniahershman<\/a>
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6th May<\/em>\n\nJoe Neal<\/strong>\n\nYou can listen to Joe’s reading here<\/a>.\n\n<\/center>\n\n<\/span>Joe Neal was born half way up a mountain in North Wales and now lives near a waterfall in Edenvale, Co Wexford – so the vividness of nature features prominently in his work. In 2017 he won the Anthony Cronin International Poetry Award and has published six collections of poetry \u2013 Telling It at a Slant<\/i>, Turn Now the Tide, Hear the Colour, Still Rise the Sun, The Next Blue Note<\/i> and Rossetti’s Wombat<\/i>.<\/span>\n\nNeal recently returned from an Arts Council Bursary tour of New England and has featured in a number of festivals, including the AberJazz in Wales where he read from his work to the accompaniment of piano. His poetry has been praised for its “impeccable rhythm and lyrical energy.” He says that as a poet one of his greatest privileges was to read alongside Thomas McCarthy at the annual Write By the Sea Festival in Kilmore, Co Wexford \u2013 as well as reading some of Seamus Heaney’s poems on BBC TV on the night it was announced that Heaney had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for Literature.<\/span>\n\n \n\n
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13th May<\/em>\n\n\u00d3 Bh\u00e9al<\/font><\/strong><\/font> in association with <\/font>Foras na Gaeilge<\/strong><\/font> presents<\/font>\n\nYou can listen to \u00c1ine’s reading here<\/a>.\n\n\u00c1ine Durkin<\/strong>\n\n<\/center>\n\n<\/span> Originally from Connemara, \u00c1ine Durkin<\/strong> has been living in Inishowen since 1980. She has won literary prizes at Oireachtas na Samhna for her blog Mise \u00c1ine<\/i> (2010), and for her collection of songs and poetry Mise \u00c1ine, An Bhean Istigh<\/i> (2017). Her songs, Le do Thaobh<\/i> and Gr\u00e1 Faoi Bhl\u00e1th<\/i> have won prizes at the national Pan Celtic Festival in 2013 and in 2018. Her song F\u00e9ile na Nollag<\/i> won the Ros Na R\u00fan\/Raidi\u00f3 na Gaeltacht Christmas Song Competition in 2013. <\/span>\n\n\u00c1ine is the author of the blog Mise \u00c1ine ag R\u00e1mhaille.<\/i> She has contributed Irish language articles and poetry to various media outlets and magazines over the years. She was awarded a first-class honours degree in Irish Language and Literature from the University of Ulster (2007). In March 2019, \u00c1ine won the Pan Celtic national competition prize in Carlow with her song, N\u00ed Thuigim<\/i>, performed by Dar\u00edona N\u00ed Dhonnch\u00fa, which was then chosen to represent Ireland. In April 2019 it went on to win the International<\/b> Pan Celtic Song Contest in Letterkenny, amidst stiff competition from the other Celtic nations of Wales, Scotland, Brittany, Cornwall and the Isle of Man. <\/span>\n\nAs Conamara \u00f3 dh\u00fachas, t\u00e1 \u00c1ine Durkin ina c\u00f3na\u00ed in Inis Eoghain \u00f3 bh\u00ed 1980 ann. Bhain s\u00ed duaiseanna liteartha ag Oireachtas na Samhna d\u00e1 blag Mise \u00c1ine<\/i> (2010), agus d\u00e1 cnuasach fil\u00edochta\/amhr\u00e1n Mise \u00c1ine, An Bhean Istigh<\/i> (2017). Bhain a hamhr\u00e1in, Le Do Thaobh<\/i> agus Gr\u00e1 Faoi Bhl\u00e1th<\/i> duaiseanna (F\u00e9ile Pan Cheilteach, 2013 agus 2018); mar a bhain F\u00e9ile Na Nollag<\/i> (Ros Na R\u00fan\/Raidi\u00f3 na Gaeltachta, 2013). Ise \u00fadar an bhlag Mise \u00c1ine ag R\u00e1mhaille.<\/i> Beidh a hamhr\u00e1n nuachumtha N\u00ed Thuigim<\/i> san ioma\u00edocht ag an bhF\u00e9ile N\u00e1isi\u00fanta Pan Cheilteach, i mbliana. Cuireann s\u00ed d\u00e1nta, agus scr\u00edbhinn\u00ed eile, ar f\u00e1il d\u2019iris\u00ed agus do na me\u00e1in, go rialta. Bhain s\u00ed c\u00e9im ch\u00e9ad on\u00f3racha amach i dTeanga agus i Litr\u00edocht na Gaeilge \u00f3 Ollscoil Uladh (2007). Ba \u00ed \u00c1ine a bhuaigh an com\u00f3rtas n\u00e1isi\u00fanta Pan Cheilteach i m\u00ed an Mh\u00e1rta 2019. I m\u00ed Aibre\u00e1in 2019 bhuaigh an t-amhr\u00e1n c\u00e9anna (‘N\u00ed Thuigim\u2019 – scr\u00edofa ag \u00c1ine) an Com\u00f3rtas Idirn\u00e1isi\u00fanta Amhr\u00e1n Pan Cheilteach i Leitir Ceanainn.<\/span>\n<\/a>\n \n\n
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20th May<\/em>\n\nDerek Sellen<\/strong>\n\nYou can listen to Derek’s reading here<\/a>.\n\n<\/center>\n\n<\/span>Derek Sellen<\/strong> lives in Canterbury and his work has been widely published in magazines, Arts Council<\/i>, Cinnamon Press<\/i> and PEN<\/i> anthologies and online. He won the \u00d3 Bh\u00e9al Five Words competition in 2015 and has also won Poets Meet Politics, Poetry Pulse, Canterbury Festival Poet of the Year and Rhyme International among other competitions. He has read his work in the UK, Ireland, Italy, Germany and Russia. His collection The Other Guernica<\/i> (Cultured Llama, 2018) contains poems inspired by Spanish art which also treat contemporary concerns from modern warfare to social inequality. <\/span>\n\n\u201cThis is a work of outstanding richness and variety, imagination, thought, storytelling, full of vivid imagery and the pleasures of language.\u201d<\/i> – Professor Janet Montefiore (author of Feminism and Poetry<\/i>)<\/span>\n\n
To see Poems by Derek visit his page at: poetrykit.org<\/a><\/span><\/center>\n\n \n\n
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27th May<\/em>\n\nPhilip Metres<\/strong> and Dave Lucas<\/strong>\n\nYou can listen to Philip’s reading here<\/a>.\n\n<\/center>\n\n<\/span>Philip Metres<\/strong> has written ten books, including Sand Opera<\/i> (2015) and The Sound of Listening: Poetry as Refuge and Resistance<\/i> (2018). He has also published numerous translations of the poetry of Sergey Gandlevsky and Lev Rubinstein. Awarded the Lannan Fellowship and two Arab American Book Awards, he is professor of English and director of the Peace, Justice, and Human Rights program at John Carroll University, Ohio.<\/span>\n\n \n\n
You can listen to Dave’s reading here<\/a>.<\/center>\n\n<\/span>Dave Lucas<\/strong> is the author of Weather<\/i> (University of Georgia Press, 2011), a book of poems for which he was awarded the 2012 Ohioana Book Award for Poetry. His poetry has appeared in such journals as The American Poetry Review, Blackbird, The Paris Review, Poetry, Slate, The Threepenny Review<\/i> and Virginia Quarterly Review<\/i>. In 2018, he was appointed the second Poet Laureate of the State of Ohio. He lives in Cleveland, Ohio, and teaches at Case Western Reserve University.\n<\/span>\n\n \n\n
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April and May 1st April Faye Boland You can listen to Faye’s reading here. Faye Boland won the Robert Leslie Boland Prize 2018 and the Hanna Greally International Literary Award 2017. She was shortlisted in 2013 for the Poetry on the Lake XIII International Poetry Competition. Her first poetry collection Peripheral was published in September […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":19,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11660","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11660"}],"version-history":[{"count":135,"href":"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12773,"href":"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11660\/revisions\/12773"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}