Archive for category Readings
Miriam Gamble
Posted by Malachi in Poets, Readings, Uncategorized on June 3rd, 2010
At a reading in No Alibis Bookshop in Belfast on June 3, Miriam Gamble read from her first collection The Squirrels Are Dead.
Her introduction acknowledges the inspiration of Sinead Morrissey.
Damian Smyth
Damian Smyth reading from his new collection Market Street and other work at the Wild Geese Literary Festival in Strangford, County Down.
Paul Maddern
Paul Maddern read some luxurious poems from his new collection Kelpdings, at the Wild Geese Literary Festival in Strangford on Saturday, February 6. Paul is from Bermuda and brought a warm breeze from the Caribbean into the hall.
Under His Roof
Artstalk editor, Malachi O’Doherty, read from his new book, Under His Roof, at the Wild Geese Literary Festival in Strangford, County Down, on Feb 6.
All Ireland Poetry Slam Champion
All Ireland Poetry Slam Champion Seamus Fox returned in glory to Bookfinders in Belfast last Friday (Oct 30) to thank the audience that has supported him and other performance poets.
It was a big night in Mary Denvir’s famous second hand bookshop, which has been a forum for performance poetry for years now.
This is a raw voice.
Humour and Haikus
The Belfast poet Frank Ormsby, former editor of the famous Honest Ulsterman, launched his fourth collection of poems, Fireflies, at Queen’s University Belfast.
Ormsby was introduced by Michael Longley, one of the distinguished elders of Irish poetry.
It was an occasion for humour and haikus.
Martin Mooney
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At the National Poetry Day readings in Armagh, Martin Mooney read a tribute to his late friend, poet and drinking buddy, Mairtin Crawford.
Kate Newmann
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Kate Newmann’s reading on National Poetry day included a love poem and a reflection on her godmother’s decision to die in a Swiss clinic.
Maureen Boyle
At a reading in Armagh on National Poetry Day, at the Cardinal O Fiaich Library, in an event organised by the John Hewitt Society, poets, Maureen Boyle, Martin Mooney and Kate Newmann, read from their new work.
Here is Maureen Boyle’s reading of part of a long poem about Michael Cleary, one of the Four Masters who translated ancient Irish documents in an effort to preserve the Gaelic legacy after the Flight of the Earls in the seventeenth century.
Life and Writing
Posted by Malachi in Interviews, Novelists, Readings, Writing on September 28th, 2009
Carlo Gebler is a distinguished novelist who made prison his theme is recent books, including the outstanding novel A Good Day for a Dog.
At the Wigtown Booktown Festival he met Erwin James, a convicted lifer who became a columnist for the Guardian while still inside.
I spoke to them together after their presentation.
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