{"id":16652,"date":"2021-01-13T13:54:23","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T13:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/?page_id=16652"},"modified":"2021-09-27T15:55:01","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T15:55:01","slug":"guests-83-feb-mar-2021","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/guest-poets\/guests-83-feb-mar-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Guests (83) Feb\/Mar 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"
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February and March 2021<\/strong><\/center><\/p>\n
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8th February<\/em><\/p>\n

New Creative Writing from UCC<\/font><\/strong>, featuring<\/em><\/p>\n

Peggy McCarthy<\/strong>, Lauren O\u2019Donovan<\/strong>,<\/p>\n

R\u00f3is\u00edn Leggett Bohan<\/strong>, Daniel Galvin<\/strong> and Kornelia Mlak<\/strong><\/p>\n

You can listen to all five poets reading here<\/a>.<\/center><\/p>\n

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Each February, \u00d3 Bh\u00e9al presents poets and short fiction writers engaged in UCC’s MA Creative Writing<\/strong> programme, who read from their new work.<\/font>
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<\/font>Peggy McCarthy<\/strong> is completing the M.A. in Creative Writing at U.C.C. this year. Born near Skibbereen in West Cork, she\u2019s lived most of her life in Waterford city. She worked as a primary teacher for many years. She enjoys the great outdoors. She\u2019s had poems published in the Fish Anthology 2020<\/em> and Hold Open the Door<\/em>. <\/p>\n

 
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<\/font><\/font>Lauren O\u2019Donovan<\/strong> is a Cork born poet currently completing her creative writing masters at UCC. She was recently featured at the \u00d3 Bh\u00e9al Winter Warmer Festival’s New Voices Showcase for Poets, and at the 2020 Bookends Conference poetry panel. Lauren is an organizer of Debarra’s Spoken Word literary events, where she has also appeared as a guest speaker. Lauren is looking forward to appearing as a guest poet at Not the Time to be Silent, later in 2021.
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<\/font><\/font>R\u00f3is\u00edn Leggett Bohan<\/strong> is currently studying for her MA in Creative Writing in UCC, Cork. A writer of Short Stories and Poetry, she is moved by the bravery that lies within vulnerability. Her writings have been published by the Amsterdam Quarterly, Eyelands Press, Cork County Library<\/em> and Visual Verse<\/em>. She received a notable mention in the C\u00fairt New Writing Prize for Poetry 2020.<\/p>\n

 
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<\/font><\/font>Daniel Galvin<\/strong> is from County Cork. His writing has been published in The Moth, Honest Ulsterman, Acumen, The West Texas Literary Review, Rock and Sling<\/em> and Ofi Press Mexico<\/em>. He came first place in the Spoken Word Platform at C\u00fairt International Literary Festival 2017 and won the May 2017 Sunday Slam in Dublin. Daniel was also shortlisted for the Red Line Poetry Competition 2018. He is currently completing an MA in Writing at University College Cork.
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<\/font><\/font>Kornelia Mlak<\/strong> is a bilingual poet and artist, who hopes to explore more languages to develop the depth of their work. They were raised in Poland and moved to Wexford, Ireland during childhood. She has completed an undergraduate degree in The Study of Religions & Philosophy, at University College Cork, where she is currently enrolled in the MA Creative Writing programme. Kornelia is interested in the unseen and writes extensively on the themes of search, love and awareness. Her poetry is predominantly displayed in an abstract and surreal manner. <\/p>\n

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You can watch a video of the event here<\/font><\/b>
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