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Poetry Readings & Events | Words Well Aimed
AUTUMN 2015
DOUBLE SHOT series of poetry readings returns this Autumn, with readings planned for September, October & November 2015, at our usual venue of BOOKS UPSTAIRS on D'Olier Street, Dublin 2.
The first event, presented in conjunction with the long-running Cork-based Ó BHÉAL, features Cork poets, Gerry Murphy and Afric McGlinchey, along with Dublin-based emerging poet, Erin Fornoff.
It takes place on Wednesday, 16 September from 6.30pm, entry €6 — book September tickets online now at Eventbrite >>>
Stay tuned for more from the Autumn DOUBLE SHOT series!
Afric McGlinchey
Afric McGlinchey grew up in Ireland and Africa. A Pushcart and Forward nominee, and 2010 winner of the Hennessy Emerging Poetry Award, she also won the 2012 Northern Liberties poetry prize (USA) and 2015 Poets Meet Politics competition. Her début poetry collection, The lucky star of hidden things, was published in 2012 by Salmon. Afric has just completed a five month residency at the Uillinn, West Cork Arts Centre and has received a Cork Country Council grant this year to work towards her second collection, due out in 2016. www.africmcglinchey.com
Gerry Murphy
Gerry Murphy was born in Cork in 1952. His poetry collections include A Small Fat Boy Walking Backwards (1985, 1992) and five previous collections from Dedalus, Rio de la Plata and All That (1993), The Empty Quarter (1995), Extracts from the Lost Log-Book of Christopher Columbus (1999), Torso of an Ex-Girlfriend (2002) and My Flirtation with International Socialism (2010). Dedalus also publish End of Part One: New and Selected Poems (2006). Murphy's poems have appeared in many journals and anthologies, and Pocket Apocalypse, his translations of the Polish poet Katarzyna Borun-Jagodzinska, appeared in 2005 from Southword Editions. Murphy's own poems form the basis for a live poetry-and-music show by Crazy Dog Audio Theatre, entitled The People's Republic of Gerry Murphy, which ran at the Cork Guinness Jazz Festival in 2010 to considerable critical success. His latest collection, Muse, was published by Dedalus Press in 2015. www.dedaluspress.com
Erin Fornoff
A native of the Appalachian mountains of North Carolina, Erin Fornoff has performed poetry at Glastonbury, Electric Picnic and many other festivals and events. Called 'deliciously exotic' (Irish Independent), and 'one of the top performance poets in Ireland' (Electric Picnic), in 2013, she was featured poet at Farmleigh House's 'New Voices', alongside Hollie McNish and Hozier. Her work is published in the Stinging Fly, Cyphers, New Planet Cabaret and Burning Bush II, among others. She won First Prize for Poetry in The Cellar Door, Third Prize in the Strokestown International Poetry Award, and won the 2013 StAnza Digital Slam. She is Artistic Director for Lingo, Ireland's first spoken word festival, and her debut poetry pamphlet, Folk Heroes, was published by Stewed Rhubarb Press in 2015. www.erinfornoff.wordpress.com