{"id":19281,"date":"2023-03-09T16:21:23","date_gmt":"2023-03-09T16:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/?page_id=19281"},"modified":"2023-06-07T09:04:00","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T09:04:00","slug":"guests-96-apr-may-2023","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/guest-poets\/guests-96-apr-may-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Guests (96) Apr\/May 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"
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April and May<\/strong><\/center><\/p>\n
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10th April<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n

\u00d3 Bh\u00e9al’s 16th Anniversary<\/strong><\/span> <\/p>\n

presents the Five Words competition winners:<\/i><\/p>\n

David Ross Linklater<\/strong> (1st<\/b><\/font>), Alison McCrossan<\/strong> (2nd<\/b><\/font>)<\/p>\n

& Glyn Matthews<\/strong> (3rd<\/b><\/font>)<\/p>\n

(celebrating 680+ nights of Poetry)<\/span><\/p>\n

featuring Five Words Volume XVI<\/strong> and an open-mic for Only Other Poets’ Poetry<\/strong><\/span><\/center><\/p>\n

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Congratulations to 1st Place winner <\/p>\n

<\/em><\/font> David Ross Linklater<\/font>!<\/strong><\/center>\u00d3 Bh\u00e9al’s 16th Anniversary<\/strong> event celebrates the launch of Five Words Volume XVI<\/em> and the winners of our 10th Five Words International Poetry competition. The winners and shortlist of 12<\/a> were selected by judge Victoria Kennefick<\/strong>. Shortlisted poets will also read on the night – as will contributors to \u00d3 Bh\u00e9al’s Monday night Five Word Challenges held over the past 12 months. The anniversary open-mic is reserved for poems written by other poets<\/em>, so bring a favourite or two!<\/span><\/p>\n

You can listen to all the Five Words Vol XVI<\/em> contributors reading here<\/a>.<\/center><\/p>\n
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<\/font>David Ross Linklater<\/strong> is a poet from Balintore, Easter Ross in the Highlands in Scotland. He is the author of four pamphlets, most recently Star Muck Bourach<\/i> (Wish Fullfillment Press, 2022). He is the recipient of a Dewar Arts Award and has been shortlisted for a New Writers Award and the Edwin Morgan Award. His work has appeared in The Dark Horse, Bath Magg, New Writing Scotland<\/i> and Gutter<\/i>. He lives in Glasgow where he works as a screen printer.<\/font>
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<\/font>Alison McCrossan <\/strong> is from Cork. She took the Master’s in Creative Writing at UCC in 2019 with an interest in fiction and graduated with a growing interest in poetry. Publications include The Honest Ulsterman, Southword, Crannog, Abridged, Orbis<\/i> and Stand Magazine<\/i> (forthcoming). Her novel in progress, The Archaeologist<\/i>, has been longlisted for the Penguin Michael Joseph Undiscovered Writers’ Prize 2023. <\/font>
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<\/font>Glyn Matthews<\/strong> is an ex-teacher of Art, English and Drama, escaping in 1989 to develop as an artist. A long held love of writing eventually prompted him to enhance his images with poetry. Thus, two art forms, that he had been exploring separately, were brought together. The whole was apparently greater than the sum of its parts and appealed to collectors of his work.<\/p>\n

Now, no longer needing the sale of artwork to support him and with Covid interrupting his preferred route to market of Craft & Design shows, he began concentrating more on his writing, throwing himself into poetry, flash-fiction and short story. He finds working to prompts stimulating and so the \u00d3 Bh\u00e9al competition appealed. His successful poem enabled him to explore repressed emotions based on a true personal experience. He has self-published two books of poetry that he sells alongside his art, maintaining that \u2018A picture on the wall dwells always in the corner of your eye. A book will close to dwell quietly in the corner of your mind.\u2019<\/i><\/p>\n

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