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<\/a><\/p>\n & special guest Partridge Boswell<\/strong><\/p>\n (640+ nights of Poetry)<\/span><\/p>\n celebrates Five Words Volume XIII<\/strong> and an open-mic for Only Other Poets’ Poetry<\/strong><\/span><\/center><\/p>\n winner of the 7th <\/span>Five Words International Poetry Competition<\/span><\/strong> <\/center><\/p>\n He has written poetry on topics as diverse as Spanish painters, Korean musicians, a Chinese street vendor and the cave-paintings at Ajanta. He enjoys performing his work and has taken part in readings in the UK and abroad in Ireland, Russia, Slovakia, Germany and Italy. His collection The Other Guernica <\/em>was published by Cultured Llama Publishing in 2018 and has been favourably reviewed in several places – \u2018This is a work of outstanding richness and variety, imagination, thought, storytelling, full of vivid imagery and the pleasures of language.\u2019<\/em> – Professor Janet Montefiore<\/span><\/p>\n Co-founder of Bookstock Literary Festival, he troubadours widely with the poetry\/music group Los Lorcas, performing in such diverse venues as Poetry Center San Jose, Massachusetts Poetry Festival, Burlington Book Festival, New Orleans Poetry Festival, Tucson Book Festival, Bookstock Literary Festival (w\/ Robert Pinsky’s PoemJazz<\/em>), Montreal’s Yellow Door, Chandler Music Hall, Bowery Poetry Club and Nuyorican Poets Caf\u00e9, as well as stages in Ireland and Slovenia. The recipient of fellowships from the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Vermont College of Fine Arts, the University of New Orleans, and the Vermont Studio Center, Boswell teaches at Burlington Writers Workshop and the Vermont Poetry Center.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/span>\u00d3 Bh\u00e9al’s 13th Anniversary<\/strong> event celebrates the launch of Five Words Volume XIII<\/em> and the winner of our 7th Five Words International Poetry competition, Derek Sellen<\/span><\/strong>. We will also have a reading from special featured guest Partridge Boswell<\/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 previous 12 months. The anniversary open-mic is only for poems written by other poets<\/em>, so bring a favourite or two!<\/span>
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<\/span>Derek Sellen <\/strong> lives in Canterbury, UK, and his writing has won awards including first prizes in Poets Meet Politics, Poetry Pulse, Rhyme International. He was Canterbury Festival Poet of the Year after winning the international competition in 2018. He won the \u00d3 Bh\u00e9al Five Words Competition in 2015 and is thrilled and amazed to do so again. His work has also won prizes in Poetry on the Lake, Bristol International Short Story Award and the National Poetry Competition among others.<\/span><\/p>\n
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<\/span>Partridge Boswell<\/strong> is the author of Some Far Country<\/em> (Grolier Poetry Prize). Recent recipients of the Edna St. Vincent Millay, Red Wheelbarrow, Gemini and Lascaux Poetry Prizes, his poems and essays have surfaced in Poetry, The Gettysburg Review, Poetry Ireland Review, Salmagundi, The American Poetry Review, Green Mountains Review, Plume, Prairie Schooner, The Moth, Southword<\/em> and Forklift, Ohio<\/em>, and been anthologized in Roads Taken: Contemporary Vermont Poetry<\/em> and Vermont Poets and Their Craft<\/em>. <\/span><\/p>\n
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