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Brave New Voices |1| Poet Profile: Iobhar Stokes
Ireland is sending its first poetry team to compete on the world stage at Brave New Voices in Atlanta. In this series, we meet the four young poets that will be making the journey to represent us on the world stage. First up is Iobhar…
Meet the Poet |7| Colm Keegan
Colm Keegan isn’t the sort of person you’d suspect would be one of Ireland’s leading spoken word and contemporary poets. You would never guess that he’s been shortlisted for multiple Hennessey’s, is the Dun Laoghaire/Rathdown Writer in…
Meet the Poet |6| Victoria Kennefick
Victoria Kennefick's poems have been published or are forthcoming in Poetry (Chicago), The Stinging Fly, New Irish Writing, Bare Fiction, The Penny Dreadful, And Other Poems and elsewhere. She won the Red Line Book Festival Poetry Prize…
Meet the Poet |5| Colm Scully
Colm Scully is a Cork poet whose first Collection 'What News, Centurions?' was launched by New Binary Press in December 2014. His poems have been published in periodicals such as Cyphers, Burning Bush 2, Abridged, The Stony Thursday Book,…
Meet the Poet |4| Sarah Clancy
Sarah Clancy, being all kinds of awesome, agreed to meet me for an interview in a small café in Galway last month. I had met her once before, at an Over The Edge reading, when I was but a young lass, and she had complimented a poem I had…
Meet the Poet |3| Doireann Ní Ghríofa
Doireann Ní Ghríofa, an award-winning bilingual poet, currently holds the Ireland Chair of Poetry Bursary awarded by Paula Meehan. Her most recent book is Clasp (Dedalus Press, 2015). She will appear at Cúirt 2015 alongside Elaine Feeney…
Meet the Poet |2| Breda Wall Ryan
Breda Wall Ryan is an award-winning poet and writer. Her stories have been broadcast on RTE and published in journals and anthologies, including Sunday Tribune/New Irish Writing, The Faber Book of Best New Irish Short Stories and The New…
Meet the Poet |1| Kevin Higgins
It was a sweltering July evening when I read at my very first Over the Edge Summer Open Mic in Galway. I, in my (friend's) blue dress, was TERRIFIED. I was having visions of bursting into flames mid-verse. And then, like an angel from God,…