{"id":17334,"date":"2021-09-19T12:35:22","date_gmt":"2021-09-19T12:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/?page_id=17334"},"modified":"2021-12-05T11:48:34","modified_gmt":"2021-12-05T11:48:34","slug":"guests-87-oct-nov-2021","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/guest-poets\/guests-87-oct-nov-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Guests (87) Oct\/Nov 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"
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October and November<\/strong><\/center><\/p>\n
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11th October<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00d3 Bh\u00e9al<\/font><\/strong>‘s<\/font> 1st<\/strong> <\/font>Hybrid<\/strong><\/font> Event Presents<\/font><\/p>\n

Neil McCarthy<\/strong> and Dean Browne<\/strong><\/center><\/p>\n

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You can listen to Neil’s reading here<\/a>.<\/center>
\n<\/span>Neil McCarthy<\/strong> hails from West Cork. His first book of poems Stopgap Grace<\/em> was published by Salmon in 2018 and subsequently shortlisted for the Shine Strong Award. His poems have appeared in dozens of international journals, in print and online, and have also been translated and published in Romania, Serbia, Hungary and the Czech Republic. <\/p>\n

McCarthy has been a guest speaker in all sorts of exotic places such as Melbourne, Los Angeles, Amsterdam and Ballydehob. He currently lives in Vienna where he teaches English and sits in cafes muttering poems away to himself. His forthcoming collection Little Empires<\/i> will be published in 2021. <\/p>\n

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You can listen to Dean’s reading here<\/a>.<\/center>
\n<\/span>Dean Browne<\/strong>‘s poems have appeared in Banshee, Bath Magg, Poetry Ireland Review, The Poetry Review, POETRY, Southword, The Stinging Fly<\/em> and elsewhere. He won the Geoffrey Dearmer Prize in 2021 and was a winner of the Poetry Business Pamphlet Competition 2021. <\/p>\n

Dean’s pamphlet Kitchens at Night<\/em> is forthcoming with Smith|Doorstop, Feb 2022. <\/font>
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You can watch a video of the event here<\/font><\/b>
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