{"id":19107,"date":"2023-01-08T13:10:48","date_gmt":"2023-01-08T13:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/?page_id=19107"},"modified":"2023-04-05T12:11:18","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T12:11:18","slug":"guests-95-feb-mar-2023","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/guest-poets\/guests-95-feb-mar-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Guests (95) Feb\/Mar 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"
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February and March 2023<\/strong><\/center><\/p>\n
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13th February<\/em><\/p>\n

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

Hannah Myers<\/strong>, Rob Worrall<\/strong>, Gabbi Dufrene<\/strong>, John McLeod<\/strong>,<\/p>\n

Alice Barry<\/strong>, Kemi George Simpson<\/strong> and Fiona Tracey<\/strong><\/p>\n

You can listen to all seven 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. This event will be held both in-person<\/strong>, hosted in the Hayloft bar, upstairs in Long Valley, Winthrop St Cork, as well as<\/strong> on Zoom<\/strong>.
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<\/font><\/font>Hannah Myers<\/strong> is originally from British Columbia and grew up in Glasgow. She is studying for an MA in creative writing at UCC. Hannah adores writing narrative for games, flash, scripts for animation, lyric writing, poetry and musicals. Authors she is interested in and influenced by are Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, Sylvia Plath and Mary Shelley. <\/p>\n

 
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<\/font><\/font>Rob Worrall<\/strong> has been writing poetry since he was 15 years old. He has performed at De Barra\u2019s spoken word events, as well as at Poetry Town events which led to him being awarded a Poetry Town bursary from Poetry Ireland. This project has subsequently evolved as a performance piece with poetry and narrative \u2013 a piece of theatrical memoir on identity, relationships, love and loss \u2013 with the working title Love Child<\/i>. <\/p>\n

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<\/font><\/font>Gabbi Dufrene<\/strong> is a poet and writer of creative nonfiction; she is currently in the Creative Writing MA program at University College Cork in Ireland. She is originally from the American South, and her work often focuses on the interactions between religion, sexuality, place and acceptance.<\/p>\n

 
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<\/font><\/font>John McLeod<\/strong> is an English-born writer and poet raised in the American South currently completing the Creative Writing MA at University College Cork. His current collection-in-progress extends the arch of strained family life, mid-twenties existentialism, and grief over a foundation of alcoholic recovery and personal growth. Often spotted in strange forests or on park benches, John spends his days writing to contribute to the literary tradition that has saved his life on countless occasions.
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<\/font><\/font>Alice Barry<\/strong> is from Cork and has returned here after working nationally and internationally as a writer, actor, producer and director. She graduated from The Samuel Beckett Centre, Trinity College in 1995 and has worked extensively in theatre, radio and television. She has a certificate in screen writing from UCLA. Theatre work includes Fruitcake, Violet Gibson: The Woman Who Shot Mussolini<\/em> and Livwhich<\/em> were all performed at The Everyman Theatre as part of a national tour. Alice is Artistic director of Noggin Theatre<\/a> and creative director on Boo at Ballymaloe. She is currently studying a masters in creative writing at UCC.<\/font><\/p>\n

<\/font>Kemi George Simpson<\/strong> lives in Cork and has been a Stay at Home Mum since before the iphone was invented. She has four sons so her house and nerves are wrecked. Kemi is excited to read her poetry as she doesn’t get out much. Poetry is a distraction from teenage tantrums and from the fear of aging. Her next door neighbour but one found one of her poems inspiring and shared it on Facebook once. Urban trees, and the steep inclines contribute to her health and wealth. <\/font><\/p>\n

 
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<\/font>Fiona Tracey<\/strong> is a poet from West Virginia. She earned her Bachelor’s degree in Creative Writing from Shepherd University and is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Creative Writing at UCC. Her writing explores women, place, and identity, and has been published in The Naugatuck River Review, Orchards Poetry Journal, The Stonecoast Review<\/em> and The Blackwater Review<\/em>.<\/font><\/p>\n

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