{"id":18070,"date":"2022-05-08T19:43:17","date_gmt":"2022-05-08T19:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/?page_id=18070"},"modified":"2022-07-26T12:42:39","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T12:42:39","slug":"guests-91-jun-jul-2022","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/guest-poets\/guests-91-jun-jul-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Guests (91) Jun\/Jul 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr \/>\n<p><center><strong>June and July<\/strong><\/center><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a name=\"13thJune\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><em>13th June<\/em><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">for the <\/font><b><font size=\"1\" color=\"#00b1a6\">Cork<\/font> <font size=\"1\" color=\"#026060\">Harbour<\/font> <font size=\"1\" color=\"#00b1a6\">Festival<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>Amanda Bell<\/strong> and <strong>Susan Rich<\/strong><br \/>\n<font size=\"1\">(both poets will appear in-person)<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><center>You can listen to Amanda&#8217;s reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/audio\/Guest Reading - Amanda Bell 2022-H.mp3\">here<\/a>.<\/center><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: silver;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"139\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/AmandaBellSm.jpg\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\"\/><\/span><font size=\"1\"><strong>Amanda Bell<\/strong> is a Dublin-based poet and author. She holds a Masters in Poetry Studies, and is a mentor with the Irish Writers Centre and Words Ireland. In 2020 she was appointed inaugural Writer in Residence for Harold\u2019s Cross, and awarded a Literature Bursary by the Arts Council of Ireland. She is an assistant editor of <em>The Haibun Journal<\/em>. Her most recent title is <em>Riptide<\/em> (Doire Press, September 2021). <\/p>\n<p>Previous publications include <em>First the Feathers<\/em> (Doire Press, 2017), which was shortlisted for the Strong Shine Award; <em>Undercurrents<\/em> (Alba, 2016), which won an HSA Kanterman Merit Book Award and was shortlisted for a Touchstone Distinguished Books Award; <em>The Lost Library Book<\/em> (Onslaught, 2017); and<em> the loneliness of the sasquatch<\/em>, from the Irish by Gabriel Rosenstock (Alba, 2018); <em>Revolution<\/em>, a chapbook of haiku, is forthcoming from wildflower poetry press. <\/p>\n<p><center>For more about Amanda please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clearasabellwritingservices.ie\">clearasabellwritingservices.ie<\/a><\/center><\/font><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><center>You can listen to Susan&#8217;s reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/audio\/Guest Reading - Susan Rich-H.mp3\">here<\/a>.<\/center><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: silver;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"181\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/SusanRichSm.jpg\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\"\/><\/span><font size=\"1\">Seattle poet <strong>Susan Rich<\/strong>\u2019s sixth collection, <em>Blue Atlas<\/em>, is forthcoming from Red Hen Press in 2024. Among her other poetry collections are, most recently, <em>Gallery of Postcards and Maps: New and Selected Poems<\/em> (Salmon Poetry, 2022), and <em>Cloud Pharmacy<\/em> (White Pine Press, 2014). <\/p>\n<p>She has been awarded a Fulbright Fellowship, the PEN USA Award for Poetry, and the Times (of London) Literary Supplement Award. Rich&#8217;s publications include: <em>Crannog Journal, Harvard Review<\/em> and <em>Poetry Ireland Review<\/em>. She is cofounder and Director of Poets on the Coast.<\/p>\n<p><center>For more about Susan please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poetsusanrich.com\">www.poetsusanrich.com<\/a>.<\/center><\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/corkharbourfestival.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"490\" height=\"52\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/CHFwide.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><center><b><font size=\"1\">You can watch a video of the event here<\/font><\/b><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/708275608\" width=\"490\" height=\"276\" frameborder=\"1\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><center><strong><font color=\"green\">Hybrid \u00d3 Bh\u00e9al Session<\/font><\/strong><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">This event will be both <strong>in-person<\/strong>, hosted in the Hayloft bar, upstairs in Long Valley, Winthrop St Cork, <strong>as well as<\/strong> on <strong>Zoom<\/strong> (which is limited to 100 people). Participation in the open-mic session and five word challenge is open to both in-person <em>and<\/em> virtual attendees. The session will be live-streamed  at <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/live\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">obheal.ie\/live<\/a><\/b> and via \u00d3 Bh\u00e9al&#8217;s <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vimeo.com\/obheal\">Vimeo<\/a><\/b>, <b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/obheal.poetry\/\">Facebook<\/a><\/b> and <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/obheal\">YouTube <\/a><\/b>channels. <strong><em><font color=\"green\">Note to Participants<\/font><\/em><\/strong>: Our hybrid events are recorded and remain viewable on video via these same channels. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/live\"><font size=\"1\" color=\"green\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/live\/LiveStageLinkWide.jpg\" width=\"492\" height=\"120\" alt=\"Click here for our Live Poetry Stage\"\/><\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We are no longer posting the zoom link via our social media channels. Upon written request to <a href=\"mailto:info@obheal.ie\">info@obheal.ie<\/a> with a sentence outlining your reason for participation, a link to join the session will be emailed to you on the evening of the event, which is expected to run for between 2-3 hours.<\/p>\n<p><center><em><strong>The evening will feature four parts:<\/strong><\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>7-7.45pm: Poetry-Films<\/strong> (random  play from \u00d3 Bh\u00e9al&#8217;s Poetry-Film comp archives &#8211; <strong>NOT STREAMED<\/strong>);<br \/>\n<strong>8.30pm: Five Word Challenge<\/strong> (max 30 &#8211; after the allotted 15 minutes writing time);<br \/>\n<strong>9.30pm: Featured Guest Poets <\/strong>(20 minutes each);<br \/>\n<strong>10:20pm: Open-Mic<\/strong> Session for original poetry (max 30).<\/p>\n<p>(<strong>Entering a Zoom meeting<\/strong> is <a href=\"https:\/\/support.zoom.us\/hc\/en-us\/articles\/201362193-Joining-a-Meeting\">all explained <b>here >>><\/b><\/a>. This link provides you with a step-by-step guide and YouTube tutorial if necessary. You should check this out if you&#8217;re unfamiliar with the Zoom platform &#8211; it also shows you where to download the zoom client\/app for your computer\/phone. <i>Please Make sure to know where the chat box is and how to mute yourself to reduce background sound.<\/i>)<\/font><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a name=\"11thJuly\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><em>11th July<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rosamund Taylor<\/strong>  and <strong>Richie McCaffery<\/strong><br \/>\n<font size=\"1\">(in-person)<\/font>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;  <font size=\"1\">(via Zoom)<\/font> <\/center><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><center>You can listen to Rosamund&#8217;s reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/audio\/Guest Reading - Rosamund Taylor-H.mp3\">here<\/a>.<\/center><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: silver;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"165\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/RosamundTaylorSm.jpg\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\"\/><\/span><font size=\"1\"><strong>Rosamund Taylor<\/strong> is a winner of the London Magazine Poetry Prize 2020 and the Mairt\u00edn Crawford Award for Poetry 2017. Widely published, her work has recently appeared in <em>Butcher&#8217;s Dog, Fourteen Poems, Magma, Mslexia, The Rialto<\/em> and <em>Poetry Ireland Review<\/em>. Her essays have appeared in <em>Banshee<\/em> and <em>The Trumpet<\/em>. A selection of her poems is included in <em>Queering the Green: Post-2000s Queer Irish Poetry<\/em> (Lifeboat Press). <\/p>\n<p>Rosamund&#8217;s debut collection, <em>In Her Jaws<\/em>, was published by Banshee Press in May 2022.<\/p>\n<p><center>For more about Rosamund please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rosamundtaylor.com\/\">www.rosamundtaylor.com<\/a>.<\/center><\/font><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><center>You can listen to Richie&#8217;s reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/audio\/Guest Reading - Richie McCaffery-H.mp3\">here<\/a>.<\/center><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: silver;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"143\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/RichieMcCafferySm.jpg\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\"\/><\/span><font size=\"1\"><strong>Richie McCaffery<\/strong> lives in Warkworth, Northumberland and is the author of four poetry pamphlets, including <em>Spinning Plates<\/em> (HappenStance Press, 2012) and <em>First Hare<\/em> (Mariscat Press, 2020). He&#8217;s published two book-length collections, both with Nine Arches Press &#8211; <em>Cairn<\/em> (2014) and <em>Passport<\/em> (2018) with a third collection <em>Summer \/ Break<\/em> due in 2022 from Shoestring Press. <\/p>\n<p>As an editor, he published <em>Finishing the Picture: Collected Poems of Ian Abbot<\/em> (Kennedy and Boyd, 2015), <em>The Tiny Talent: Selected Poems by Joan Ure<\/em> (Brae Editions, 2018) and <em>Sydney Goodsir Smith: Essays on his life and work<\/em> (Brill, 2020). <\/p>\n<p><center>For more about Richie please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/richiemccafferypoetry.wordpress.com\/\">richiemccafferypoetry.wordpress.com<\/a>.<\/center><\/font><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><center><b><font size=\"1\">You can watch a video of the event here<\/font><\/b><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/720276450\" width=\"490\" height=\"276\" frameborder=\"1\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><center><strong><font color=\"green\">Hybrid \u00d3 Bh\u00e9al Session<\/font><\/strong><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">This event will be both <strong>in-person<\/strong>, hosted in the Hayloft bar, upstairs in Long Valley, Winthrop St Cork, <strong>as well as<\/strong> on <strong>Zoom<\/strong> (which is limited to 100 people). Participation in the open-mic session and five word challenge is open to both in-person <em>and<\/em> virtual attendees. The session will be live-streamed  at <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/live\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">obheal.ie\/live<\/a><\/b> and via \u00d3 Bh\u00e9al&#8217;s <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vimeo.com\/obheal\">Vimeo<\/a><\/b>, <b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/obheal.poetry\/\">Facebook<\/a><\/b> and <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/obheal\">YouTube <\/a><\/b>channels. <strong><em><font color=\"green\">Note to Participants<\/font><\/em><\/strong>: Our hybrid events are recorded and remain viewable on video via these same channels. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/live\"><font size=\"1\" color=\"green\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/live\/LiveStageLinkWide.jpg\" width=\"492\" height=\"120\" alt=\"Click here for our Live Poetry Stage\"\/><\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We are no longer posting the zoom link via our social media channels. Upon written request to <a href=\"mailto:info@obheal.ie\">info@obheal.ie<\/a> with a sentence outlining your reason for participation, a link to join the session will be emailed to you on the evening of the event, which is expected to run for between 2-3 hours.<\/p>\n<p><center><em><strong>The evening will feature four parts:<\/strong><\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>7-7.45pm: Poetry-Films<\/strong> (random  play from \u00d3 Bh\u00e9al&#8217;s Poetry-Film comp archives &#8211; <strong>NOT STREAMED<\/strong>);<br \/>\n<strong>8.30pm: Five Word Challenge<\/strong> (max 30 &#8211; after the allotted 15 minutes writing time);<br \/>\n<strong>9.30pm: Featured Guest Poets <\/strong>(20 minutes each);<br \/>\n<strong>10:20pm: Open-Mic<\/strong> Session for original poetry (max 30).<\/p>\n<p>(<strong>Entering a Zoom meeting<\/strong> is <a href=\"https:\/\/support.zoom.us\/hc\/en-us\/articles\/201362193-Joining-a-Meeting\">all explained <b>here >>><\/b><\/a>. This link provides you with a step-by-step guide and YouTube tutorial if necessary. You should check this out if you&#8217;re unfamiliar with the Zoom platform &#8211; it also shows you where to download the zoom client\/app for your computer\/phone. <i>Please Make sure to know where the chat box is and how to mute yourself to reduce background sound.<\/i>)<\/font><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June and July 13th June for the Cork Harbour Festival Amanda Bell and Susan Rich (both poets will appear in-person) You can listen to Amanda&#8217;s reading here. Amanda Bell is a Dublin-based poet and author. She holds a Masters in Poetry Studies, and is a mentor with the Irish Writers Centre and Words Ireland. 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