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Poetry Readings & Events | Words Well Aimed
SPRING 2015
The inaugural DOUBLE SHOT series of poetry readings took place across February, March and April of 2015, and featured poets, Graham Allen, Jessica Traynor, Kate Quigley, Eleanor Hooker, Angela Carr and Ciarán O' Rourke, Martin Dyar, Breda Wall Ryan and Helena Nolan --->>>
Jessica Traynor
Jessica Traynor is a writer from Dublin. Her first collection, Liffey Swim, was published by Dedalus Press in 2014 and is currently shortlisted for the Strong/Shine Award. Poems are forthcoming in Poetry Ireland Review, The Penny Dreadful and Hallelujah for Fifty Foot Women (Bloodaxe) and her work has been broadcast on RTÉ’s Arena. She is the 2014 recipient of the Ireland Chair of Poetry Bursary and is currently nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She was named Hennessy New Irish Writer of the Year in 2013 and won the 2011 Listowel Poetry Prize. She was the 2010 recipient of a Dublin City Council Literature Bursary and in 2009, was chosen for the Poetry Ireland Introduction Series. Her work has been translated into Irish, Polish and Italian. www.jessicatraynor.wordpress.com
Eleanor Hooker
Eleanor Hooker is an award-winning poet and writer, with an MPhil in Creative Writing (Distinction) from Trinity College, Dublin.
She is a founding member and Programme Curator for the
Dromineer Literary Festival. Eleanor was selected for the Poetry
Ireland Introductions Series in 2011. Her poetry has been published
in a number of literary journals and magazines, in print and online,
and have been broadcast on local and national radio. Eleanor's
profile and poems are featured in the Irish page of Poetry International. Her first collection of poems, The Shadow Owner’s
Companion (The Dedalus Press), was shortlisted for the
Strong/Shine award for best first collection from 2012. She is
currently completing her second collection, a poem from which has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize; a selection of her poems have been translated into Polish.www.eleanorhooker.com
Ciarán O’ Rourke
Ciarán O' Rourke was born in 1991 and is based in Dublin. His work has been widely published, and his pocket-pamphlet Some Poems was issued as a Moth Edition in 2011. He is co-founder of the TCD Apartheid-Free Campus Campaign.
Breda Wall Ryan
Breda Wall Ryan is from Co Waterford and lives in Co. Wicklow. She has an M.Phil. in Creative Writing (Distinction) from Trinity College, Dublin. Her fiction has been shortlisted for a Hennessy Literary Award, Francis MacManus Award, Elizabeth Bowen / William Trevor Award and The Davy Byrnes Irish Writing Award. She won the iYeats, Poets Meet Painters and Dromineer Poetry Competitions, and Over the Edge New Writer of the Year, 2013. Selected for Poetry Ireland Introductions 2014, she placed second in Patrick Kavanagh Awards and third in RSPB/The Rialto Nature Poetry Competition. A Pushcart and Forward Prize nominee, she won The Gregory O’Donoghue International Poetry Competition, 2015. In a Hare’s Eye (Doire Press) is her first poetry collection. www.bredawallryan.com
Graham Allen
Graham Allen is Professor in English at University College, Cork, Ireland. His books include Harold Bloom: Towards a Poetics of Conflict (1994); Intertextuality (2000; 2nd edition 2011); Roland Barthes(2003); The Salt Companion to Harold Bloom, co-editor with Roy Sellars (2007); Mary Shelley (2008), The Reader’s Guide to ‘Frankenstein’ (2008). He has published extensively on literary and cultural theory and on Romantic literature; his work has been translated into Japanese, Korean, French, Portuguese, and Persian. Professor Allen has published poetry in numerous journals. He was the winner of the 2010 Listowel Poetry Prize and has been short-listed for various prizes, including the Crashaw Poetry Prize for 2013 and The Fool for Poetry Prize for 2014. His epoem Holes and his collection The One That Got Away (2014) are published by New Binary Press. The One That Got Away is currently shortlisted for the Strong/ Shine Award. www.grahamallen.org
Kate Quigley
Kate Quigley is a graduate of NUI Galway’s BA with Creative Writing programme & her poetry has previously been published in several Irish & UK journals including The Stinging Fly, Revival, The Shop, Orbis & The Moth, as well as her other writing & photography appearing in The Jerome Hynes One Act Play Series & ROPES. She has read her work at events in Dublin & in Galway & recently spent a year living in a forest in Poland volunteering & working on her poetry & other creative pursuits. She is currently involved with The Big Smoke Writing Factory & LINGO Spoken Word Festival is working towards a first collection of poetry.
Angela Carr
Angela T. Carr is a poet and writer, based in Dublin; her work has been published in a number of Irish / UK literary journals and anthologies, including Mslexia, Bare Fiction, Abridged, and broadcast on RTE Radio One's Arena arts programme. Three times short-listed for the Patrick Kavanagh Award, in 2013, she won the Cork Literary Review Poetry Manuscript Competition. In 2014 she was selected for Poetry Ireland's Introductions series, short-listed for the Listowel Single Poem award, was a finalist in the Mslexia Poetry Comeptition, judged by Wendy Cope, a runner up in the Over the Edge New Writer of the Year and won the Allingham Poetry Prize. Her debut collection, How to Lose Your Home & Save Your Life, was published in November 2014. www.adreamingskin.com.
Martin Dyar
Martin Dyar grew up in Swinford in County Mayo. His debut collection of poems,Maiden Names (Arlen House, 2013) was chosen as a book of the year in both theGuardian and The Irish Times, and was shortlisted for the Pigott Poetry Prize and the Shine/Strong Award. Martin won the Patrick Kavanagh Award in 2009, and the Strokestown International Poetry Award in 2001. He has also been a recipient of two Irish Arts Council Bursary Awards for literature. Most recently, he was a writer in residence at the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa, where he was a Dublin UNESCO City of Literature Fellow. Martin completed an MA in English at NUIG, and a PhD in English at Trinity College Dublin.
Helena Nolan
Helena Nolan is a poet and short fiction writer from Dublin. Helena has been selected for this year’s Poetry Ireland Introductions Series and will read as part of the International Literature Festival in May. She won the Patrick Kavanagh Award in 2011, having come second in 2010. She was shortlisted for a Hennessy Award in 2013 and has featured in a number of National & International Poetry Competitions, including Strokestown, Fish, The Kilkenny Broadsheet, Anam Cara & RTE/John Murray Show. Her work has appeared in a range of publications including; The Irish Times, The Irish Independent/New Irish Writing, Poetry Ireland Newsletter, The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph and literary journals such as The Stinging Fly, The Moth and Abridged, as well as extensively online. She has an MA in Creative Writing from UCD.