{"id":16020,"date":"2020-10-24T18:44:23","date_gmt":"2020-10-24T18:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/?page_id=16020"},"modified":"2020-12-04T20:11:05","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T20:11:05","slug":"winter-warmer-festival-2020","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/winter-warmer-poetry-festival\/winter-warmer-festival-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Warmer Festival 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u00d3 Bh\u00e9al’s 8th Winter Warmer<\/strong> (and 1st online<\/strong>) festival presents 36 poets<\/strong> live from fifteen countries, over four days in November. The festival will feature two poetry workshops<\/strong>, four newly recorded Mini-Concerts<\/strong> from Tionscadal na nAmhr\u00e1n Eala\u00edne Gaeilge<\/em> (the Irish Language Art Song Project) devised by D\u00e1irine N\u00ed Mheadhra and John Hess, the shortlist screening and prize-giving for \u00d3 Bh\u00e9al’s International Poetry-Film Competition<\/strong><\/font><\/a>, a Many Tongues of Cork<\/b> session and a closed-mic set for new voices – poets who have featured regularly in \u00d3 Bh\u00e9al’s online open-mic sessions during 2020. <\/font><\/p>\n

A downloadable pdf programme<\/strong> is available HERE<\/strong><\/a>. The festival poster is HERE<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Free Admission<\/font><\/strong> to all events
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Thursday<\/font><\/strong> 26th<\/font><\/strong> November <\/font><\/center><\/p>\n

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Workshop 1<\/font><\/strong><\/center><\/p>\n
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Thursday<\/strong> 26th<\/font><\/strong> November<\/font>
\n3.00pm – 5.00pm<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Your One Human Experience<\/b>: with Tongo Eisen-Martin<\/b><\/font><\/p>\n

WORKSHOP FULL<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n

Cost is \u20ac15. Online via Zoom (12 Places max). To book a place, please email info@obheal.ie<\/a><\/font><\/b><\/center><\/p>\n

The objective of this workshop is to share strategies for writing and editing poems generated by the idea that your poetry is a part of your one human experience taking place in and revealed by an interconnected reality. For each strategy, you will complete a corresponding in-class writing prompt drawing on your own life experiences and worldviews, as well as the critical perception of your craft. <\/p>\n

Poems will be shared both for possibilities of revision and expansion. As a group, we will also work on the practice of reading poems aloud in order to realize the full potential of the poem as it exists in a shared moment. By the end, students will begin an approach to craft in which the objective of craft is the perpetual creation of new writing strategies and new opportunities to relax into one’s own voice. This workshop is for people of all levels and backgrounds. <\/font><\/p>\n

<\/font>Originally from San Francisco,<\/font> Tongo Eisen-Martin<\/strong><\/font> is a poet, movement worker, and educator. His latest curriculum on extrajudicial killing of Black people, We Charge Genocide Again<\/i>, has been used as an educational and organizing tool throughout the country. His book titled, Someone’s Dead Already<\/i> was nominated for a California Book Award. His latest book Heaven Is All Goodbyes<\/i> (City Lights Pocket Poets series, 2017), was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize and won a California Book Award and an American Book Award.
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Readings & Performances<\/font><\/strong><\/center><\/p>\n
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Thursday<\/strong> 26th<\/font><\/strong> November<\/font>
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Irish Language Art Song: Mini<\/font> Concert 1<\/font>\/4<\/i><\/strong><\/font><\/center><\/p>\n

  Andrew Gavin, Ana Sokolovic & Garrett Sholdice<\/font>
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\nTenor: Andrew Gavin<\/font><\/b>
\nPiano: John Hess<\/font><\/strong>
\nRecitation: D\u00e1irine N\u00ed Mheadhra<\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/center><\/p>\n

Ceol\/Music<\/b>: Ana Sokolovic<\/font><\/strong><\/font>
\nTr\u00ed Amhr\u00e1n<\/em><\/b><\/font>\/Three Songs<\/em><\/b><\/font>
\nD\u00ednit an Bhr\u00f3in\/The Dignity of Grief<\/em> (T\u00e9acs\/Text<\/b>: M\u00e1irtin \u00d3 Dire\u00e1in<\/font><\/strong>)
\nMaileo l\u00e9r\u00f3 (L\u00faib\u00edn)\/Mallo lero (Loobeen)<\/em> (T\u00e9acs\/Text<\/b>: Ni fios c\u00e9 a chum\/Anonymous)
\nAmhr\u00e1n an treabhd\u00f3ra (Amhr\u00e1n oibre)\/Ploughing song (Work song)<\/em> (T\u00e9acs\/Text<\/b>: Ni fios c\u00e9 a chum)<\/font><\/p>\n

Ceol\/Music<\/b>: Garrett Sholdice<\/font><\/strong><\/font>
\nTr\u00ed V\u00e9arsa As ‘D\u00f3nall \u00d3g’<\/em><\/b><\/font>\/Three Verses from D\u00f3nall \u00d3g<\/em><\/b><\/font>
\nTa\u0301 mo chroi\u0301se chomh dubh le ha\u0301irne\/My heart is as black as the sloe<\/em>
\nA Dho\u0301naill O\u0301ig, ma\u0301 the\u0301ir thar farraige\/ O Do\u0301nall O\u0301g, if over the sea you go<\/em>
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  D\u00e1irine N\u00ed Mheadhra & John Hess<\/font>
\n<\/font> The Irish Language Art Song Project<\/strong>, devised by project director D\u00e1irine N\u00ed Mheadhra and John Hess, is a collection of fifty new art songs set exclusively to Irish language texts. These were commissioned in 2019 from Irish and international composers with a three-fold goal: to enliven the interaction between classical composers and Irish language poets, to make a significant contribution to the canon of Irish language art song, and to provide the resources to allow singers in Ireland and throughout the world the opportunity to sing art song in the Irish language.<\/p>\n

Is \u00e9 at\u00e1 sa Tionscadal na nAmhr\u00e1n Eala\u00edne Gaeilge<\/b>, a cheap sti\u00farth\u00f3ir an tionscadail D\u00e1irine N\u00ed Mheadhra agus John Hess, baili\u00fach\u00e1n de caoga amhr\u00e1n eala\u00edne, ceol nua curtha le t\u00e9acsanna Gaeilge amh\u00e1in. Rinneadh coimisi\u00fan\u00fa ar na hamhr\u00e1in seo i 2019 \u00f3 chumad\u00f3ir\u00ed \u00c9ireannacha agus idirn\u00e1isi\u00fanta agus tr\u00ed mh\u00f3r-aidhm in aigne againn: caidreamh a spreagadh idir chumad\u00f3ir\u00ed clasaiceacha agus fil\u00ed Gaeilge, cur go suntasach le can\u00f3in na n-amhr\u00e1n eala\u00edne Gaeilge, agus na hacmhainn\u00ed cu\u00ed a chur ar f\u00e1il chun go bhf\u00e9adfadh amhr\u00e1naithe in \u00c9irinn agus m\u00f3rthimpeall an domhain tabhairt faoi amhr\u00e1n eala\u00edne i nGaeilge a chanadh. <\/p>\n

For more \/ Le haghaidh tuilleadh faisn\u00e9ise, tabhair cuairt ar: www.cmc.ie<\/a>.
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Thursday<\/strong> 26th<\/font><\/strong> November<\/font>
\n6.00pm – 7.30pm<\/strong><\/font> <\/p>\n

Chiamaka Enyi-Amadi<\/strong> |<\/font><\/strong> Siobh\u00e1n N\u00ed Dhomhnaill<\/strong> |<\/font><\/strong> Karthika Na\u00efr<\/strong> <\/strong><\/font>
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\n<\/font><\/font> Chiamaka Enyi-Amadi <\/strong><\/font> is a Lagos-born, Galway-bred, and Dublin-based writer, editor, performer, and arts facilitator. Her work is published in Poetry International 25, Poetry Ireland Review 129, RT\u00c9 Poetry Programme, IMMA Magazine, Architecture Ireland, The Irish Times, Writing Home: the \u2018New Irish\u2019 Poets<\/em>, which she co-edited with Pat Boran (Dedalus Press, 2019), as well as The Art of the Glimpse: 100 Irish Short Stories<\/em> (edited by S\u00ednead Gleeson, 2020), amongst others. This year, she participated in C\u00fairt Festival Culture Night: Celebrating the Irish Short Story online event, CIACLA\u2019s Micro-Moments online series, and the Red Line Book Festival. <\/p>\n

Chiamaka was the 2019 recipient of the Poetry Ireland Access C\u00fairt Bursary and her work is longlisted for An Post Irish Book Awards Writing.ie Short Story of the Year 2020. She is the co-founder of @BlackGirlAtEase<\/a>, a new online wellness space, exploring embodied emotional ease, esteem, and intimacy. The platform is co-curated with her sister Ihunanya Enyi-Amadi, lawyer and photographer. The Igbo-Irish duo shares poetry, prose, and photography to encourage healing, rest, and hope. Find out more about her work on Instagram @chiamakaenyiamadi<\/a> and Twitter @AmadiEnyi<\/a><\/font>
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\n<\/font><\/font>Siobh\u00e1n N\u00ed Dhomhnaill<\/strong><\/font> is a bilingual poet. She was born and raised in Listowel, Co.Kerry. After finishing her degree in BCL (Law and Irish), she undertook a Masters in European Law and the Irish Language in University College Cork. She is currently studying to be a Secondary School teacher in NUI Galway. She is the winner of the Collection of Poetry Award at Listowel Writers Week in 2019. Her poems have been published in the magazines Motley<\/em> and Sonder<\/em>. Her book Ait agus Iontach Bheith Beo<\/em> will be coming out with Coisceim soon. The poet Thomas McCarthy has described her poetry as ‘mature yet incredibly youthful, light-footed yet full of terrific literary skill. The unique and sublime bi-lingual collection breaks away from all the competent moulds to create a new kind of energy in poetry.’ <\/p>\n

File d\u00e1theangach \u00ed Siobh\u00e1n N\u00ed Dhomhnaill<\/b>. I Lios Tuathail i gcontae Chiarra\u00ed a rugadh agus t\u00f3gadh \u00ed. Fuair c\u00e9im mh\u00e1istreachta sa Ghaeilge agus i nDl\u00ed na hEorpa le gairid \u00f3 Chol\u00e1iste na hOllscoile Corcaigh i ndiaidh a bhunch\u00e9im BCL (Dl\u00ed & Gaeilge) a chr\u00edochn\u00fa. T\u00e1 s\u00ed ag d\u00e9anamh an M\u00e1istreacht san Oideachas Gairmi\u00fail i nGaillimh f\u00e9 l\u00e1thair. Buaiteoir an Chom\u00f3rtais Chnuasach Fhil\u00edochta ag Seachtain na Scr\u00edbhneoir\u00ed Lios Tuathail 2019. T\u00e1 a d\u00e1nta foilsithe sna hiris\u00ed Motley<\/em> agus Sonder<\/em>. Beidh a leabhar Ait agus Iontach Bheith Beo<\/em> ag teacht amach le Coisceim gan mhoill. Chuir an file Thomas McCarthy s\u00edos ar a cuid fil\u00edochta mar ‘mature yet incredibly youthful, light-footed yet full of terrific literary skill. The unique and sublime bi-lingual collection breaks away from all the competent moulds to create a new kind of energy in poetry.’ <\/font>
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\n<\/font>Poet, dance producer and librettist, Karthika Na\u00efr<\/font><\/b> is the principal scriptwriter of several dance productions, including the multiple-award-winning DESH<\/em> (2011), choreographer Akram Khan\u2019s dance solo. The dance pieces she has scripted and co-scripted have been staged at venues across the world, such as the Palais des Papes (Avignon), Sadler\u2019s Wells (London) and L.G. Arts Center (Seoul).<\/p>\n

Until the Lions: Echoes from the Mahabharata<\/em>, her reimagining of the Mahabharata in multiple voices, won the 2015 Tata Literature Live! Award for fiction and was highly commended in the 2016 Forward Prizes (UK). Akram Khan adapted one chapter of the book into a dance show, also called Until the Lions<\/em>, winner of the 2016 Tanz Award for Outstanding Production. Na\u00efr is a 2012 Sangam House Fellow, a 2013 Toji Foundation Fellow, and was also awarded a Villa Marguerite Yourcenar Fellowship in 2015. <\/p>\n

Her latest book is the collaborative Over and Under Ground in Mumbai & Paris<\/em> (2018), a travelogue in verse, written with Mumbai-based poet Sampurna Chattarji, and illustrated by Jo\u00eblle Jolivet and Roshni Vyam. As dance enabler, Na\u00efr\u2019s closest associations have been with Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Damien Jalet. She is the executive producer of shows including Babel(words), Puz\/zle – both winners of the prestigious Olivier Award – and co-founder of Cherkaoui’s company Eastman.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Thursday<\/strong> 26th<\/font><\/strong> November<\/font>
\n8.00pm – 9.30pm<\/strong><\/font> <\/p>\n

Julie Morrissy<\/strong> |<\/font><\/strong> Musawenkosi Khanyile<\/strong> |<\/font><\/strong> Ellen Hinsey<\/strong> <\/strong><\/font><\/center><\/p>\n

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\n<\/font>Julie Morrissy<\/strong><\/font> is an Irish poet, academic, critic, and activist. Her recent projects emphasise collaboration, and her practice engages animation, moving image and performance. She is the inaugural John Pollard Newman Fellow in Creativity at University College Dublin, where she also teaches creative writing. Her debut collection Where, the Mile End<\/i> (2019) is published by Book*hug (Canada) and tall-lighthouse (UK). <\/p>\n

Morrissy completed her PhD in Creative Writing at Ulster University, and she holds separate degrees in Literature (Ryerson University, Toronto) and Law (University College Dublin\/University of Minnesota). She is a recipient of the \u2018Next Generation\u2019 Artist Award from the Arts Council, and she has represented Ireland at the O, Miami Festival and the Toronto International Festival of Authors. Her poetry has been published internationally, including in The Manchester Review, Winter Papers, The Irish Times, gorse<\/em> and bath magg<\/em>. Her website is juliemorrissy.com<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n

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<\/font>Musawenkosi Khanyile<\/strong><\/font> is a South African poet and clinical psychologist from Nseleni, KwaZulu-Natal, currently living in Cape Town. He is the author of All the Places<\/em> (uHlanga Press, 2019), a debut collection of poems shortlisted for the 2020 Ingrid Jonker Prize and declared co-winner of the 2020 South African Literary Award (SALA) for Poetry. His chapbook, The Internal Saboteur<\/em>, was published by Akashic Books in collaboration with the African Poetry Book Fund as part of the 2019 New-Generation African Poets Chapbook Box Set: Sita<\/em>. <\/font><\/p>\n

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<\/font>Ellen Hinsey<\/strong><\/font> is the author of eight books of poetry, essays, dialogue and literary translation. Her most recent volume of poetry The Illegal Age<\/em> explores the rise of authoritarianism and was the Poetry Book Society’s 2018 Autumn Choice. Hinsey’s reports and essays on democracy in Central and Eastern Europe are collected in Mastering the Past: Contemporary Central and Eastern Europeand the Rise of Illiberalism<\/em> (2017). Her book-length dialogue with Lithuanian poet Tomas Venclova, Magnetic North<\/em>, explores post-war culture and ethics under totalitarianism. <\/p>\n

Hinsey’s other volumes of poetry include Update on the Descent<\/em>, a National Poetry Series Finalist, which draws on her experience at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in the Hague, The White Fire of Time<\/em> and Cities of Memory<\/em>, which received the Yale University Series Award. She has also edited and co-translated The Junction: Selected Poems of Tomas Venclova<\/em> (Bloodaxe 2008). Her work has appeared in publications such as The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Irish Times, Der Tagesspiegel, Poetry Review, Poetry<\/em> and others. A former fellow of the American Academy in Berlin, she is the international correspondent for the New England Review<\/em>. She lives in Paris.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Thursday<\/strong> 26th<\/font><\/strong> November<\/font>
\n10.00pm – 11.30pm<\/strong><\/font> <\/p>\n

Alba Cid<\/strong> |<\/font><\/strong> Brian Kirk<\/strong> |<\/font><\/strong> Susan Musgrave<\/strong> <\/strong><\/font><\/center><\/p>\n

<\/font>Alba Cid<\/strong><\/font> (Ourense, 1989) is a Galician poet and researcher. She lives between Santiago de Compostela and Oxford, where she directs the John Rutherford Centre for Galician Studies at the University of Oxford. She is a contributing editor to Dorna<\/em> (a Galician literary magazine), reviews poetry as a frequent guest on a Galician radio program and various journals, takes photographs and occasionally illustrates. <\/p>\n

Her debut poetry collection is Atlas<\/em> (Galaxia, 2019), for which she won the Miguel Hern\u00e1ndez National Young Poetry Prize 2020. To date, her poems have been translated into English, Greek, Portuguese and Spanish. As one of the four winners of 2019 Words Without Borders Poems in Translation Contest in partnership with the Academy of American Poets, translations of her poems by Jacob Rogers have appeared in Poem-a-Day<\/em>, also in Asymptote, Action Books, The Offing<\/em> (tr. Megan Berkobien) and are forthcoming from the Kenyon Review<\/em> online.
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<\/font>Brian Kirk<\/strong><\/font> is a poet and writer from Dublin. His first poetry collection After The Fall<\/em> was published by Salmon Poetry in 2017. His poem \u201cBirthday\u201d won the Listowel Writers\u2019 Week Irish Poem of the Year at the An Post Irish Book Awards 2018. His short fiction chapbook It\u2019s Not Me, It\u2019s You<\/em> won the Southword Fiction Chapbook competition and was published in 2019. <\/p>\n

Recent poems have appeared in Poetry Ireland Review, Abridged, Boyne Berries, Skylight 47<\/em> and 14 Magazine<\/em>. He was granted a bursary from the Arts Council of Ireland\u2019s Covid 19 Response Award 2020 to write and film a series of formal poems called \u201cFreedom in Constraint\u201d focusing on the themes of isolation and social distancing and the wider issues and challenges to community and family arising out of the current Covid 19 pandemic. He is a member of the Hibernian Poetry Workshop and he blogs at www.briankirkwriter.com<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n

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<\/font>Susan Musgrave<\/strong><\/font> has published more than 30 books. She has been nominated and won awards for writing in five different categories: poetry, fiction, non-fiction, children’s books, and for her work as an editor. A new book of poetry, Exculpatory Lilies<\/em>, will be published by McClelland & Stewart in 2022. In April 2020 her poem, “Wild and Alone,” took third place in the Fish Poetry Prize Competition in Cork, judged by Billy Collins. <\/p>\n

She lives on Haida Gwaii, off Canada’s northwest coast, where she owns and manages Copper Beech Guest House, and teaches poetry in UBC’s Optional Residency MFA Program in Creative Writing. She spends part of every year in the west of Ireland, and would like her obituary to read, “She died in Ireland.” But not yet.
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Praising our mutilated world<\/b>: with Jo Burns<\/b><\/font><\/p>\n

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Cost is \u20ac15. Online via Zoom (12 Places max). To book a place, please email info@obheal.ie<\/a><\/font><\/b><\/center><\/p>\n

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In a testament to resilience, Adam Zagajewski\u2019s poem \u201cTry to praise the mutilated world\u201d weaves beauty, enigma, hope and praise into a poetic call to see the joy of small things, both in our day to day and in treasured memories. Poetry can be a source of reassurance in hard times. <\/p>\n

Think of Walt Whitman\u2019s lines: \u201cAffection shall solve the problems of freedom yet; Those who love each other shall become invincible\u201d<\/em>,<\/p>\n

or Wendell Berry’s: \u201cAnd I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free\u201d<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Remnants of light are what gives us strength; what makes us human. Participants of the workshop will receive poetry prompts that inspire this. The prompts will be sent after registration. First drafts will be collated and shared, throughout the group, prior to the Zoom session, where we will workshop our poems together. Hopefully, by the end, we will have polished poems of praise of our own. Let`s try to praise our mutilated, but still beautiful, world!
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<\/font>Born in Northern Ireland,<\/font> Jo Burns<\/strong><\/font> lives in Germany. Jo’s poetry has been published in Oxford Poetry, Poetry Ireland Review, Poetry News, The Moth, Southword, The Stinging Fly, The Tangerine<\/em> and Magma<\/em> among many others. Jo won the McClure Poetry Prize 2017 at the Irish Writers Festival, CA, the Magma Poetry Competition 2018, the Hamish Canham Award (Poetry Society) 2020 and the Listowel Single Poem Competition 2020 and has been shortlisted for many others. <\/p>\n

Her pamphlet Circling for Gods<\/em> was published by Eyewear Publishing. Her first full collection White Horses<\/em> was published by Turas Press in 2018. She is currently working on both a second collection, and a collaboration with Emily S Cooper, exploring the muses of Pablo Picasso.<\/p>\n

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Irish Language Art Song: Mini<\/font> Concert 2<\/font>\/4<\/i><\/strong><\/font><\/center><\/p>\n

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Friday<\/strong> 27th<\/font><\/strong> November<\/font>
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Natalya O’Flaherty<\/strong> |<\/font><\/strong> Mike Garry<\/strong> |<\/font><\/strong> David Wheatley<\/strong> <\/strong><\/font>
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\n<\/font>Now established as one of the most exciting names on the Irish spoken word scene,<\/font> Natalya O\u2019Flaherty<\/strong><\/font> has emerged from the dankest of dive bars of the Dublin scene to perform at some of the country’s most prestigious cultural centres and undertake many major commissions. Her words carry hard hitting notions and criticisms of modern Ireland, tackling everything from (so called) daddy issues to drug abuse. <\/p>\n

Having found her voice through the cheap rhymes and hard hitting nature of spoken word, an appearance as part of the St Patrick’s Day Festival Young Blood concert at the National Concert Hall brought her to the attention of many, especially the Word Up Collective – whom she joined in 2018. Key appearances since have included RTE Culture Night (at the request of Laureate na n\u00d3g Sarah Crossan), St Patrick\u2019s Festival, The Late Late Show, the Mansion House as part of the 100th anniversary celebrations of the D\u00e1il’s first sitting, Electric Picnic, Music Town and All Together Now. So far in 2020 she has undertaken several online festival projects, recorded a special set for Body & Soul\u2019s virtual weekend and taken part in RTE\u2019s Shine commission, for which she wrote an exclusive new piece.
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\n<\/font>Dr. <\/font>Mike Garry<\/strong><\/font> was a librarian for 15 years before becoming a poet. His work with Manchester Libraries began with the development of Study Support Units or \u201cHomework Centres\u201d throughout Manchester\u2019s local library network. His work with young people in inner city Manchester won him awards from the Princes\u2019 Trust and the National Literacy Trust, awarding him the title of \u201cChampion Reader\u201d for his work in promoting reading to young people. <\/p>\n

Mike has toured with John Cooper Clarke for a decade performing in over 500 venues throughout the UK, US and Europe. He has had many a musical collaboration; working with New Order and performing with Iggy Pop, Patti Smith and the National in New York\u2019s Carnegie Hall, working with classical composer Philip Glass, and collaborating with The Cassia String Quartet, The Northern Chamber orchestra and the Halle orchestra players. Mike has four books \u2013 Men\u2019s Morning, Mancunian Meander, God is a Manc<\/em> and Men\u2019s Mourning<\/em>, which have become schemes of work in hundreds of British schools, receiving wide critical acclaim and success.<\/font>
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Friday<\/strong> 27th<\/font><\/strong> November<\/font>
\n8.00pm – 9.30pm<\/strong><\/font> <\/p>\n

Jean Boase-Beier<\/strong> |<\/font><\/strong> Mary O’Malley<\/strong> |<\/font><\/strong> Sin\u00e9ad Morrissey<\/strong> <\/strong><\/font><\/center><\/p>\n

<\/font>Jean Boase-Beier<\/strong><\/font> is a translator and editor of poetry and an academic writer. She is Professor Emerita of Literature and Translation at the University of East Anglia, where she founded the MA in Literary Translation in 1992 and ran it until 2015. She is Translations Editor for Arc Publications.<\/p>\n

Her academic work focuses on translation, style and poetry, and especially on the translation of Holocaust poetry. Academic publications include Translating the Poetry of the Holocaust<\/em> (2015, Bloomsbury), the co-edited Palgrave Handbook of Literary Translation<\/em> (2018), and Translation and Style<\/em> (2020, Routledge). Jean\u2019s poetry translations (all from Arc Publications) include collections by modern German poets Ernst Meister (2003), Rose Ausl\u00e4nder (2014), and Volker von T\u00f6rne (2017), and she has recently co-edited (with Marian de Vooght) Poetry of the Holocaust: An Anthology<\/em> (2019).
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\n<\/font>Mary O\u2019Malley<\/strong><\/font> has published eight books of poetry and her ninth, Gaudent Angeli <\/em>is due out from Carcanet this September. She has lectured in NUI Galway for many years and is the Trinity College Writer Fellow for 2019. She has won a number of awards, is published in several languages, is working on a book of essays and a prose book, both on the subject of place. She was awarded the Heimbold Chair of Irish Studies at the University of Villanova in 2013 and has held residencies in Paris, Tarragona and the US. <\/p>\n

O’Malley was writer in resident on the Celtic Explorer, a marine research ship, in 2007 and Valparaiso <\/em>was written in part on the ship. She has been involved in environmental education, specifically of the ocean, for over twenty five years, working at Bog Week and Sea Week, and she was on the organizing of an international conference on the de-militarisation of the ocean in 1992. She comes from a fishing background and is currently concerned with the cultural and human fallout from the destruction of the small fishing industry off the West Coast of Ireland, and the rise of questionable EU policy on fishing.
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\n<\/font>The author of six poetry collections, <\/font>Sin\u00e9ad Morrissey<\/strong><\/font> was born in 1972 and grew up in Belfast. Her awards include the Patrick Kavanagh Award, a Lannan Literary Fellowship, first prize in the UK National Poetry Competition, the Irish Times Poetry Prize (2009, 2013), and the T. S. Eliot Prize (2013). In 2016 she received the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. <\/p>\n

On Balance<\/em> was the winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection, 2017 and of the European Poet of Freedom Award 2020. Morrissey has served as Belfast’s inaugural Poet Laureate and is currently Professor of Creative Writing at Newcastle University.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Friday<\/strong> 27th<\/font><\/strong> November<\/font>
\n10.00pm – 11.30pm<\/strong><\/font> <\/p>\n

Rachael Hegarty<\/strong> |<\/font><\/strong> John McCullough<\/strong> |<\/font><\/strong> Chris Mansell<\/strong> <\/strong><\/font><\/center><\/p>\n

<\/font>Rachael Hegarty<\/strong><\/font> is a Dubliner. She was educated by the Holy Faithers in Finglas, the U.Mass Bostonians, the Trinity M.Phillers in Dublin and the Ph.D. Magicians at Queens University, Belfast. Her debut collection, Flight Paths Over Finglas<\/em> won the 2018 Shine Strong Award. A child survivor of the Dublin and Monaghan bombings, her collection May Day 1974<\/em> (Salmon, 2019) has won national and critical acclaim. <\/p>\n

Rachael has also edited a book of poems by community groups from hometown in Making Sense of Finglas<\/em> (2019). Her third collection, Dancing with Memory<\/em> (Salmon, 2021) is a ballroom for her mother who lives with Alzheimer\u2019s. Rachael\u2019s kids say she uses the 3 F- words too much: Finglas, feminism and feckin\u2019 poetry.
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\n<\/font>John McCullough<\/strong><\/font> lives in Hove. His latest book of poems, Reckless Paper Birds<\/em> (Penned in the Margins) won the 2020 Hawthornden prize for literature and was shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award. The Costa judges said ‘This collection \u2013 hilarious, harrowing and hyper-modern \u2013 offers a startlingly fresh insight into vulnerability and suffering.’ In the Times Literary Supplement, head judge for the Hawthornden, Christopher Reid, described it as ‘a rare literary phenomenon . . . a frank and militant declaration of joy.’ <\/p>\n

McCullough has won other awards including the Polari First Book Prize and his collections have been named Books of the Year in The Independent, The Guardian and The Observer as well as his work often appearing in magazines such as Poetry London, Poetry Review<\/em> and The New Statesman<\/em>. He teaches creative writing at the University of Brighton and New Writing South. <\/font><\/p>\n

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\n<\/font>Chris Mansell<\/strong><\/font> studied Economics at the University of Sydney \u2013 because she\u2019d read Das Kapital<\/em> as a teenager and thought economics was the way to understand what is going on. She spent the first ten years of her life on the central coast of NSW, and then she moved to Niugini (Papua New Guinea). <\/p>\n

At 14, she decided that she would be a poet. Mansell has won the Queensland Premier’s Award for Poetry, Amelia Chapbook Award (USA) and the Meanjin Dorothy Porter Poetry Prize, and was short-listed for the National Book Council Award and the NSW Premier\u2019s Award. Her Latest book is 101 Quads<\/em> (Puncher & Wattmann, 2020), a formal experimental work.<\/p>\n

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Many Tongues of Cork<\/strong><\/font> is a space filled with prose & poetry in different languages. All are welcome to enjoy the flavourful sounds of just a few of the many tongues spoken in our diverse city. Five women will read their poems in languages including Ndebele, Swedish and Arabic. This popular Cork event, produced by Joanna Dukkupati<\/strong>, takes place throughout each year, reaching further on each occasion into new corners and immigramt populations of the wider Cork community. Poems will be presented simultaneously in sign language<\/strong> (ISL), by Cork sign-language interpreter Ray Greene<\/strong>. <\/font><\/p>\n

Asmae Ourkiya, Celine Thrane, Nqobizitha Vella, Sananda Mukhopadhyaya and Susanne Araya<\/font>
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\n<\/font>Asmae Ourkiya<\/strong><\/font> is a 27 years old Moroccan researcher, artist, and human rights activist who is currently a third year Ph.D. candidate majoring in ecofeminism. Asmae masters four languages and has never missed an opportunity to speak for minority rights, LGBTQ+ rights, and women’s rights. As a non-binary queer activist, they use their art to break gender norms through their paintings. They have been based in Cork city for over a year now and they love the city!<\/p>\n

<\/font>Celine Thrane<\/strong><\/font> is a writer, photographer, and filmmaker. She has been living in Cork with her partner since July 2019 and they are aiming to found their very own media production company (Shade 52 Media) in January 2021. “Creativity and beauty are all around us, intertwined with the very seams of our reality. Our goal is to capture a little bit of this magic and share it with the world.” <\/p>\n

<\/font>Nqobizitha Vella<\/strong><\/font> is a feminist Zimbabwean writer living in Ireland. She has been in the country for five years and it is here that she has finally found a voice to raise awareness of the injustices of her culture in relation to the girl child and women in the form of writing. She has published a book written in her native language IsiNdebele titled (Umendo So!) and a few short stories she wants to turn into films at a later stage.<\/p>\n

<\/font>Sananda Mukhopadhyaya<\/strong><\/font> is an art based Educator and theatre maker. Her favorite interests are children, cats, trees and textiles. She writes about life as she sees it closely and slowly. Sananda is based in Mumbai and we’re thrilled that she’ll be joining us.<\/p>\n

<\/font>Susanne Araya<\/strong><\/font> is a 29 year old Norwegian engineer, who has a great love for art. Susanne is also a musician, activist and poet. She is extremely passionate about justice and equality. She uses her music and poems to speak for those who can’t, but also for herself, because she believes that everybody should be heard. Susanne moved to Cork with her partner about a year ago, and enjoys the charm of the city and the people.<\/p>\n

<\/font><\/font>Joanna Dukkipati<\/strong><\/font> is an enthusiastic gatherer of all things that raise kindness and positivity in our community. Joanna grew up in India and has the experience of living and working in Kenya, Zimbabwe, Australia, Zambia and Mozambique. She believes in the strength of diversity. She is the founding editor of Good Day News<\/em>, a magazine that only features local uplifting news. Joanna began Many Tongues of Cork <\/strong>to highlight the different languages spoken in Cork with the goals of bringing people closer together and learning about different cultures.<\/font><\/p>\n

<\/font>Ray Greene<\/strong><\/font> became a qualified Irish Sign Language\/English Interpreter in 2004. She has been working as a full time Interpreter ever since and works in a broad variety of settings such as education and training, employment, religious ceremonies, theatre, counselling, medical work … and poetry sessions. This is Ray’s third time interpreting at the festival.<\/font>
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\n5.30pm – 5.45pm<\/strong><\/font> <\/p>\n

Irish Language Art Song: Mini<\/font> Concert 3<\/font>\/4<\/i><\/strong><\/font><\/center><\/p>\n

  John Kinsella & Gavan Ring<\/font>
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\nTenor: Gavan Ring<\/font><\/b>
\nPiano: John Hess<\/font><\/strong>
\nRecitation: D\u00e1irine N\u00ed Mheadhra<\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/center><\/p>\n

Tr\u00ed Amhr\u00e1n<\/em><\/b><\/font>\/Three Songs<\/em><\/b><\/font>
\nB\u00f3ithre B\u00e1na\/ White Roads<\/em> (T\u00e9acs\/Text<\/b>: Eoghan \u00d3 Tuarisc<\/font><\/strong>)
\nFilleadh \u00f3n Antartach\/Return from Antartica<\/em> (T\u00e9acs\/Text<\/b>: Ailbhe N\u00ed Ghearbhuigh<\/font><\/strong>)
\nAn Muince Dreol\u00edn\u00ed\/A Necklace of Wrens<\/em> (T\u00e9acs\/Text<\/b>: Michael Hartnett<\/font><\/strong>)<\/font><\/p>\n

Recording engineer<\/b>: David Stalling<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Saturday<\/strong> 28th<\/font><\/strong> November<\/font>
\n6.00pm – 7.30pm<\/strong><\/font> <\/p>\n

Jane Clarke<\/strong> |<\/font><\/strong> Ranjit Hoskote<\/strong> |<\/font><\/strong> Mary Jean Chan<\/strong> <\/strong><\/font>
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\n<\/font><\/font> Jane Clarke<\/strong><\/font> is the author of two poetry collections, The River<\/em> and When the Tree Falls<\/em> (Bloodaxe Books, 2015 & 2019), as well as an illustrated chapbook, All the Way Home<\/em>, (Smith|Doorstop 2019). In 2020 When the Tree Falls<\/em> was shortlisted for the Pigott Poetry Prize, the Irish Times Poetry Now Award and the Farmgate Caf\u00e9 National Poetry Award as well as being longlisted for the Royal Society of Literature\u2019s Ondaatje Prize. \u2018Copper Soles\u2019 from When the Tree Falls<\/em> was highly commended in the Forward Book of Poetry 2021. <\/p>\n

Her first collection The River<\/em> was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature\u2019s Ondaatje Prize. In 2016 she won the Hennessy Literary Award for Emerging Poetry and the inaugural Listowel Writers\u2019 Week Poem of the Year Award. Originally from a farm in Roscommon, Jane now lives in Glenmalure, Co. Wicklow. She holds a BA in English and Philosophy from Trinity College, Dublin and an MPhil in Writing from the University of South Wales. For more visit www.janeclarkepoetry.ie<\/a>.<\/font>
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\n<\/font><\/font>Ranjit Hoskote<\/strong><\/font> is a poet, translator, cultural theorist and curator based in Bombay. His seven collections of poetry include Vanishing Acts<\/em> (Penguin, 2006), Central Time<\/em> (Penguin\/ Viking, 2014), Jonahwhale<\/em> (Penguin\/ Hamish Hamilton, 2018) and, most recently, The Atlas of Lost Beliefs<\/em> (Arc, 2020). His translation of a 14th-century Kashmiri woman mystic\u2019s poetry has appeared as I, Lalla: The Poems of Lal Ded<\/em> (Penguin Classics, 2011). He is the editor of Dom Moraes: Selected Poems<\/em> (Penguin Modern Classics, 2012). With Ilija Trojanow, Hoskote has co-authored Confluences: Forgotten Histories from East and West<\/em> (Yoda, 2012). With Maria Hlavajova, he has co-edited Future Publics: A Critical Reader in Contemporary Art<\/em> (BAK\/Valiz, 2015). <\/p>\n

Hoskote curated India\u2019s first-ever national pavilion at the Venice Biennale (2011) and co-curated the 7th Gwangju Biennale (2008). He is an alumnus of the International Writing Program, University of Iowa (1995) and has been writer-in-residence at Villa Waldberta, Munich (2003) and the Polish Institute, Berlin (2010). India\u2019s National Academy of Letters has honoured Hoskote with the Sahitya Akademi Golden Jubilee Award and the Sahitya Akademi Translation Award. His poems have been translated into German, Hindi, Bangla, Marathi, Irish Gaelic, Swedish, Spanish, and Arabic. He is on Twitter at @ranjithoskote<\/a> and on Instagram at @rhoskote<\/a>.<\/font>
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\n<\/font>Mary Jean Chan<\/font><\/b> is a London-based poet, lecturer and editor from Hong Kong. Her debut poetry collection, Fl\u00e8che<\/em> (Faber & Faber), is the winner of the 2019 Costa Book Award for Poetry. Chan has twice been shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem, and is the recipient of a 2019 Eric Gregory Award and the 2018 Poetry Society Geoffrey Dearmer Prize. In Spring 2020, Chan served as guest co-editor at The Poetry Review<\/em>. She currently lectures in Creative Writing at Oxford Brookes University.<\/font>
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Saturday<\/strong> 28th<\/font><\/strong> November<\/font>
\n8.00pm – 9.30pm<\/strong><\/font> <\/p>\n

Tongo Eisen-Martin<\/strong> |<\/font><\/strong> Jacob Polley<\/strong> |<\/font><\/strong> Imtiaz Dharker<\/strong> <\/strong><\/font><\/center>
\n<\/font>Originally from San Francisco,<\/font> Tongo Eisen-Martin<\/strong><\/font> is a poet, movement worker, and educator. His latest curriculum on extrajudicial killing of Black people, We Charge Genocide Again<\/i>, has been used as an educational and organizing tool throughout the country. His book titled, Someone’s Dead Already<\/i> was nominated for a California Book Award. His latest book Heaven Is All Goodbyes<\/i> (City Lights Pocket Poets series, 2017), was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize and won a California Book Award and an American Book Award.
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\n<\/font><\/font>Jacob Polley<\/strong><\/font> was born and grew up in Cumbria. He has published four books of poems with Picador, winning the 2016 T.S. Eliot Prize for poetry for his fourth, Jackself<\/em>, which was described by the judges as \u2018a firework of a book; inventive, exciting and outstanding in its imaginative range and depth of feeling.\u2019 His 2009 novel, Talk of the Town<\/em>, set in and around Carlisle, won the Somerset Maugham Award. <\/p>\n

A poet of the uncanny and the startlingly lyrical, Jacob\u2019s work explores his rural upbringing, the forces of tradition and history, and the power of speech as it approaches song. Jacob is Professor of Creative Writing at Newcastle University and lives with his family on the North East coast.<\/font><\/p>\n

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<\/font>Imtiaz Dharker<\/strong><\/font> is a poet, artist and video film maker, awarded the Queen\u2019s Gold Medal for Poetry in 2014. She has been Poet in Residence at Cambridge University Library and worked on several projects across art forms in Leeds, Newcastle and Hull as well as the Archives of St Paul\u2019s Cathedral. Her seven collections include Over the Moon<\/em> (Bloodaxe, 2014) and the latest, Luck is the Hook<\/em> (Bloodaxe, 2018), with poems featured on radio, television, the London Underground and Mumbai buses. <\/p>\n

Dharker has had eleven solo exhibitions of drawings and scripts and directs video films, many of them for non-government organisations working in the area of shelter, education and health for women and children in India. <\/font>
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Saturday<\/strong> 28th<\/font><\/strong> November<\/font>
\n10.00pm – 11.30pm<\/strong><\/font> <\/p>\n

James O’Leary<\/strong> |<\/font><\/strong> Nuar Alsadir<\/strong> |<\/font><\/strong> Robert Sullivan<\/strong> <\/strong><\/font><\/center><\/p>\n

<\/font>James O’Leary<\/strong><\/font> is a poet from Cork. His chapbook There are Monsters in this House<\/em> was published by Southword Editions in 2018. He was selected for The Poetry Ireland Introductions Series in 2017 and received the Poetry Ireland and C\u00fairt bursary in 2016. His poems have been broadcast on RT\u00c9 radio and published in The North, The Irish Examiner, The Honest Ulsterman, Banshee, Magma, Southword<\/em> and elsewhere. He has written and directed several short plays and his poetry-films have screened at festivals in Ireland, Scotland, and Canada. His poems will appear in A Wild and Precious Life: A Recovery Anthology<\/em> in April 2021.
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\n<\/font>Nuar Alsadir<\/strong><\/font> is a poet, essayist and psychoanalyst. She is the author of two poetry collections \u2013 most recently Fourth Person Singular<\/em> (Liverpool University Press, 2017), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry and the 2017 Forward Prize for Best Collection ; and More Shadow Than Bird<\/em> (Salt, 2012). <\/p>\n

Her poems and essays have appeared in numerous publications, including Granta, The New York Times Magazine, Slate, Grand Street, the Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, tender, Magma, Poetry London<\/em>, and the Poetry Review<\/em>. She has a book of nonfiction forthcoming with Fitzcarraldo Editions. She lives in New York.
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\n<\/font>M\u0101ori poet <\/font>Robert Sullivan<\/strong><\/font>‘s tribal a\ufb03liations are to Ng\u0101puhi, and K\u0101i Tahu. He is also Irish. His seven collections of poetry include Captain Cook in the Underworld<\/em> (Auckland University Press), Shout Ha! to the Sky <\/em>(Salt Publishing) and the bestselling Star Waka<\/em> (Auckland University Press). He has co-edited three major anthologies of Paci\ufb01c and M\u0101ori poetry. <\/p>\n

Robert has served on writing committees and judging panels in New Zealand and overseas including the board of the Auckland Writers\u2019 Festival, the M\u0101ori Writers’ Committee, Te H\u0101, and the 2018 poetry panel for the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. Robert for a time led the Creative Writing programmes at the University of Hawai’i, M\u0101noa, and Manukau Institute of Technology where until recently he was Deputy Chief Executive M\u0101ori. <\/p>\n

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\u00d3 Bh\u00e9al’s 8th<\/b> International Poetry-Film Competition<\/b><\/font><\/center><\/p>\n

<\/a><\/font>This year’s shortlist of 38 films<\/a> was chosen from 288 submissions received from 181 filmmakers in 49 countries. The shortlist represents 14 countries: Argentina, Australia, Belarus, Canada, England, Ireland, Isle of Man, Israel, Netherlands, New Zealand, Scotland, Sierra Leone, Spain & the USA.<\/font><\/p>\n

Judges Dareina N\u00ed Chinn\u00e9ide<\/b><\/a> and Paul Casey<\/b><\/a> will select one winner to receive the \u00d3 Bh\u00e9al<\/strong> award for best poetry-film, designed by glass artist Michael Ray<\/a>. The winner will be announced directly after the screenings.<\/font><\/p>\n

 
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Irish Language Art Song: Mini<\/font> Concert 4<\/font>\/4<\/i><\/strong><\/font><\/center><\/p>\n

  Jonathan Nangle & Daire Halpin<\/font>
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\nSn\u00e1th\/Yarn<\/em> (T\u00e9acs\/Text<\/b>: Nuala Ni Chonch\u00fair<\/font><\/strong>)
\nChugat\/Towards You<\/em> (T\u00e9acs\/Text<\/b>: Michael Davitt<\/font><\/strong>)<\/font><\/p>\n

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Deborah Moffatt<\/strong> |<\/font><\/strong> Niall O’Gallagher<\/strong> |<\/font><\/strong> Ceait\u00ed N\u00ed Bh\u00e9ildi\u00fain<\/strong> <\/strong><\/font>
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\n<\/font>Deborah Moffatt<\/strong><\/font>, born in Vermont, USA, has lived in Fife, Scotland since 1982. Her poetry, in English and in Gaelic, has been widely published in the UK and Ireland, and she has won prizes in both languages, including the Wigtown International Competition, the Words on the Waves Award, and the MacDonald of Sleat Poetry Award. She has published two poetry collection in English, Far From Home <\/em>(Lapwing, 2004) and Eating Thistles <\/em>(Smokestack Books, 2018). Her first collection in Gaelic is D\u00e0in nan D\u00f9il<\/em> (Cl\u00e0r, Inverness). <\/p>\n

Is ann \u00e0 Vermont, anns na St\u00e0itean Aonaichte, a tha <\/font>Deborah Moffatt<\/strong><\/font>. Tha i air a bhith a\u2019 fuireach ann am F\u00ecobha, faisg air Cill Rimhinn, bho 1982. Chaidh D\u00e0in nan D\u00f9il<\/em>, a\u2019 chiad chruinneachadh dhen bhardachd Gh\u00e0idlig aice, fhoillseachadh ann an 2019. Tha d\u00e0 chruinneachadh aice ann am Beurla, Far From Home<\/em> (Lapwing, 2004) agus Eating Thistles<\/em> (Smokestack Books, 2018). Tha i air deannan dhuaisean a bhuannachd airson a b\u00e0rdachd, Duais B\u00e0rdachd MacDh\u00f2mhnaill Shl\u00e8ite agus Duais B\u00e0rdachd Baile na h-\u00d9ige nam measg. <\/font>
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\n<\/font><\/font>Niall O’Gallagher<\/strong><\/font> is the City of Glasgow’s first Gaelic Poet Laureate. Described by Aonghas MacNeacail in the Herald as ‘an exciting new (this time essentially urban) voice’, he is the author of two collections, Beatha \u00d9r<\/em> (Cl\u00e0r, 2013) and Suain nan Tr\u00ec Latha<\/em> (2016). A third, Fo Bhl\u00e0th<\/em>, is due in 2020. His poems have been praised for their use of classical Gaelic forms to write modern love poems; Anna Frater described his style as ‘nua-bh\u00e0rdachd anns an t-seann n\u00f2s’ (‘modern poetry in the old style’) while Alan Titley wrote ‘I don’t know if another poet in our time has managed to cross that causeway between the old and the new so capably and so honestly’. A translator from Gaelic and Catalan into English and Scots, he has also published Scottish Gaelic versions of Irish poems by Biddy Jenkinson in STEALL, where he acts as poetry editor. More information about Niall’s work can be found at www.niallogallagher.com<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n

Is e <\/font>Niall O’Gallagher<\/strong><\/font> ciad Bh\u00e0rd Baile Ghlaschu. A r\u00e8ir Aonghais MhicNeacail anns an Herald, ‘an exciting new (this time essentially urban) voice’, ‘s e \u00f9ghdar d\u00e0 chruinneachaidh: Beatha \u00d9r<\/em> (Cl\u00e0r, 2013) agus Suain nan Tr\u00ec Latha<\/em> (2016). Tha d\u00f9il ri treas cruinneachadh, Fo Bhl\u00e0th<\/em>, ann an 2020. Chaidh a bh\u00e0rdachd a mholadh airson meadrachd na seann fhilidheachd a chleachdadh gus d\u00e0in ghr\u00e0idh \u00f9ra a sgr\u00ecobhadh. Thuirt Anna Frater gun sgr\u00ecobh e ‘nua-bh\u00e0rdachd anns an t-seann n\u00f2s’ agus sgr\u00ecobh Alan Titley ‘N’fheadar an bhfuil file ar bith eile len\u00e1r linn ar \u00e9irigh leis dul trasna an cabhsa sin idir an sean agus an nua chomh cumasach, is chomh hionraic sin’. Na eadar-theangaire bhon Gh\u00e0idhlig agus bhon Chatalanais don Bheurla agus don Bheurla Ghallda, dh’fhoillsich e tionndaidhean G\u00e0idhlig na h-Alba bho dh\u00e0in Biddy Jenkinson ann an STEALL far a bheil e na dheasaiche b\u00e0rdachd. Gheibhear barrachd fiosrachaidh mun obair aige aig www.niallogallagher.com<\/a>.<\/font>
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\n<\/font>Ceait\u00ed N\u00ed Bh\u00e9ildi\u00fain<\/font><\/b> is an Irish language writer of poetry and drama. Her latest book, the award winning, Agallamh sa Cheo \u2013 Cnoc Bhr\u00e9anainn, 52.2352\u00b0T, 10.2544\u00b0I<\/em>, is the latest of four volumes of her poetry published by Coisc\u00e9im, 2007-2019. Her fifth collection is underway. Her two short plays have been staged by An Lab, in Dingle, Co. Kerry. Both Eala\u00edn na Gaeltachta and the Arts Council have awarded N\u00ed Bheildi\u00fain bursaries in support of her work. Two books of her poetry were awarded an Oireachtas prize. She has been both prize winner and judge at Strokestown Poetry Festival, and, in 2015, won Duais Foras na Gaeilge, Listowel Writers\u2019 Week. N\u00ed Bheildi\u00fain made a tour of Scotland with Turas na bhFil\u00ed in 2014 and worked as poet in residence at the D\u00edseart in Dingle, 2008-2010. <\/p>\n

Is file agus dr\u00e1mad\u00f3ir \u00ed Ceait\u00ed N\u00ed Bh\u00e9ildi\u00fain<\/font><\/b>. Bhuaigh an cnuasach fil\u00edochta is d\u00e9ana\u00ed uaithi, Agallamh sa Cheo \u2013 Cnoc Bhr\u00e9anainn, 52.2352\u00b0T, 10.2544\u00b0I<\/em>, duais an Oireachtais, 2018. Seo an ceathr\u00fa cnuasach \u00f3na peann agus t\u00e1 an c\u00faigi\u00fa ceann idir l\u00e1mha aici anois. Rug s\u00ed an chraobh l\u00e9i i gcom\u00f3rtas Oireachtais 2007 lena c\u00e9ad leabhar, An Teorainn Bheo. I 2015, ghn\u00f3thaigh d\u00e1n d\u00e1 cuid Duais Foras na Gaeilge. St\u00e1its\u00edodh dh\u00e1 ghearrdhr\u00e1ma\u00ed d\u00e1 cuid ins An Lab, sa Daingean. Bhronn Eala\u00edn na Gaeltachta (2019, 2014) agus An Chomhairle Eala\u00edon (2010) spar\u00e1nachta\u00ed ar N\u00ed Bheildi\u00fain. Ba mholt\u00f3ir \u00ed do Duais de h\u00cdde, F\u00e9ile Fil\u00edochta \u00c1tha na mBuill\u00ed, 2015. Ghlac s\u00ed p\u00e1irt i dTuras na bhFil\u00ed san Albain, 2013, agus chaith s\u00ed tr\u00e9imhse ina scr\u00edbhneoir c\u00f3naitheach sa D\u00edseart sa Daingean, 2008-2010. <\/font>
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Jo Burns<\/strong> |<\/font><\/strong> William Wall<\/strong> |<\/font><\/strong> Dunya Mikhail<\/strong> <\/strong><\/font><\/center>
\n<\/font>Born in Northern Ireland,<\/font> Jo Burns<\/strong><\/font> lives in Germany. Jo’s poetry has been published in Oxford Poetry, Poetry Ireland Review, Poetry News, The Moth, Southword, The Stinging Fly, The Tangerine<\/em> and Magma<\/em> among many others. Jo won the McClure Poetry Prize 2017 at the Irish Writers Festival, CA, the Magma Poetry Competition 2018, the Hamish Canham Award (Poetry Society) 2020 and the Listowel Single Poem Competition 2020 and has been shortlisted for many others. <\/p>\n

Her pamphlet Circling for Gods<\/em> was published by Eyewear Publishing. Her first full collection White Horses<\/em> was published by Turas Press in 2018. She is currently working on both a second collection, and a collaboration with Emily S Cooper, exploring the muses of Pablo Picasso.<\/p>\n

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\n<\/font>William Wall<\/strong><\/font> is the author of six novels, including Suzy Suzy<\/em> (2019) and Grace’s Day<\/em> (2018), three collections of stories including The Islands <\/em>(2017) and Hearing Voices Seeing Things<\/em> (2016), and four of poetry including The Yellow House<\/em> (2017). The first European to win the Drue Heinz Prize (2017), he has won numerous awards and has been longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He has also been widely translated and translates from Italian.<\/p>\n

Grace’s Day<\/em> will soon appear in Italian from Nutrimenti. For more visit www.williamwall.net<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\n<\/font>Dunya Mikhail<\/strong><\/font> was born in Iraq in 1965 and came to the United States in 1996. Her books include In Her Feminine Sign<\/em> (2019); The Beekeeper: Rescuing the Stolen Women of Iraq<\/em> (2018), which was longlisted for the 2018 National Book Award for Literature in Translation; The Iraqi Nights, Diary of A Wave Outside the Sea<\/em>; and The War Works Hard<\/em>. She also edited a pamphlet of Iraqi poetry titled 15 Iraqi Poets<\/em>. <\/p>\n

Her honors include the Kresge Fellowship, Arab American Book Award, and the United Nations Human Rights Award for Freedom of Writing. The War Works Hard was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize and named one of the New York Public Library\u2019s Twenty-Five Books to Remember from 2005. She is the co-founder of Mesopotamian Forum for Art and Culture in Michigan. She currently works as an Arabic special lecturer at Oakland University in Michigan.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Florencia Milito<\/strong> |<\/font><\/strong> Proinsias Mac a’ Bhaird<\/strong> |<\/font><\/strong> Iman Mersal<\/strong> <\/strong><\/font><\/center>
\n<\/font>Florencia Milito<\/strong><\/font> (Rosario, Argentina, 1972). Bilingual poet, essayist, memoirist, and translator whose work has appeared in ZYZZYVA, Indiana Review, Catamaran, Entremares, Digging through the Fat, Di\u00e1logo, 92nd Street Y, Kenyon Review, Quiet Lightning, Ninth Letter, and Latinas: Struggles & Protests in 21st Century USA<\/em>, among others. A Hedgebrook alumna, CantoMundo fellow, San Francisco Grotto fellow, and Community of Writers alumna, she has written extensively on themes of state terror and displacement, as well as imagination and language as counterpoint, influenced by her early experience fleeing Argentina\u2019s 1976 coup, subsequent childhood years in Venezuela, and immigration to the United States at the age of nine. <\/p>\n

In 2011, she read her poetry at the Festival Internacional de Poes\u00eda de Rosario. A resident of San Francisco for the past sixteen years, she reads in various literary series in the Bay Area, works as an educator, and translates the work of contemporary Latin American poets. Her bilingual book of poetry Ituzaing\u00f3: Exiles and Reveries<\/em> is forthcoming from Nomadic Press in January 2021.<\/font>
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\n<\/font>Is as \u00c1rainn Mh\u00f3r i dT\u00edr Chonaill do <\/font>Proinsias Mac a’ Bhaird<\/strong><\/font>. T\u00e1 3 chnuasach fil\u00edochta foilsithe aige, chomh maith le ceithre h\u00farsc\u00e9al agus leabhair do ph\u00e1ist\u00ed. Bhunaigh agus re\u00e1cht\u00e1il s\u00e9 An Ch\u00fairt Fil\u00edochta le deich mbliana anuas agus bronnadh go leor duaiseanna ar a shaothar i gcom\u00f3rtais \u00e9ags\u00fala, ina measc: Com\u00f3rtas U\u00ed N\u00e9ill, Com\u00f3rtas Bh\u00e9al na mBuill\u00ed agus Reclaim the Vision of 1916. Bronnadh duais Leabhar na Bliana ar a \u00farsc\u00e9al Tairngreacht<\/em> (Cl\u00f3 Iar-Chonnacht) ag na An Post Irish Book Awards sa bhliain 2019. Foilseofar a ceathr\u00fa d\u00edolaim fil\u00edochta, Falsca\u00ed<\/em>, n\u00edos moille i mbliana. <\/p>\n

<\/font>Proinsias Mac a’ Bhaird<\/strong><\/font> hails from \u00c1rainn Mh\u00f3r in the Donegal Gaeltacht. He has published three poetry collections in addition to 4 novels and other books for children. He established and has run the annual C\u00fairt Fil\u00edochta gathering for the past 10 years and his work has been awarded prizes in many competitions, including The Colonel O\u2019Neill competition, Strokestown Poetry and Reclaim the Vision of 1916. His novel Tairngreacht<\/em> (Cl\u00f3 Iar-Chonnacht) was named Irish Language Book of the Year at the An Post Irish Book Awards in 2019. His upcoming poetry collection, Falsca\u00ed<\/em>, will be published later this year.<\/font>
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\n<\/font>Iman Mersal<\/strong><\/font> is an Egyptian poet, translator and literary scholar, and Professor of Arabic Language and Literature at the University of Alberta, Canada. She is the author of five books of Arabic poetry, selections from which have been translated into numerous languages. In English translation, her poems have appeared in The New York Review of Books, Parnassus, Paris Review, The Nation, American Poetry Review<\/em> and Michigan Quarterly Review<\/em>.<\/p>\n

A selection of Mersal\u2019s poetry, entitled These Are Not Oranges, My Love<\/em>, translated by the poet Khaled Mattawa, was published in 2008 (Sheep Meadow Press- New York). Her most recent publications include an Arabic translation of Charles Simic\u2019s memoir, A Fly in the Soup<\/em> (Al Kotob Khan, 2016), Kayfa Talta\u2019im: \u2018An al-Umuma wa Ashbahiha<\/em> (Kayfa Ta and Mophradat, 2017), translated into English by Robin Moger as Motherhood and its Ghosts<\/em> (Kayfa Ta and Sternberg Press – Berlin, 2018), and Fi Athar Enayat al- Zayyat<\/em> (In pursuit of Enayat al-Zayyat) (Al Kotob Khan – Cairo, 2019).
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