Moloch Showcase Night

dublin | arts and media | event notice Tuesday July 15, 2008 09:34 by Ailbhe Darcy - Moloch editor at moloch dot ie

A night of music and poetry at Dublin's Winding Stair

Moloch hosts a showcase night in Dublin on the 31st of July at 7pm, at The Winding Stair, Ormond Quay, Dublin 2. We're going to show off just a few of our lovely talented crew, namely Kevin Higgins, Alan Jude Moore, Stephen Kelly & The Perfect Consonants. Admission is free. See http://molochjournal.blogspot.com/ or contact editor[at]moloch.ie for further details.

Dublin Artist Sarah Quigley features in Moloch at www.moloch.ie

Moloch - an online journal of new art and writing at www.moloch.ie - is hosting a showcase night in Dublin this July. We're going to show off just a few of our lovely talented crew, including Kevin Higgins, Alan Jude Moore, Stephen Kelly and The Perfect Consonants.

Moloch was founded in December 2006 by Ailbhe Darcy and Clodagh Moynan. Tying different art forms together in new and refreshing ways, Moloch aspires to allow artists and writers to find inspiration in each other and, in doing so, add new dimensions to each others work.

For the showcase night, Kevin Higgins will be joining us from Galway. Kevin’s first collection of poems, The Boy With No Face, was published in February 2005. The collection was shortlisted for the 2006 Strong Award for Best First Collection by an Irish Poet. The Boy With No Face was Salmon Poetry’s bestselling book of that year and has recently been reprinted. Kevin’s second collection of poems, Time Gentlemen, Please, was published this year.

In 2000, Kevin was chosen to read his poetry as part of the Poetry Ireland Introductions series. He has also read at the Cúirt International Festival of Literature, The Bowery Poetry Club in New York, and The Poetry Society in London. In June 2002 he was a finalist in the Dublin Writers' Festival/Rattlebag Poetry Slam. His work has been broadcast on national and local radio. With his wife Susan, Kevin co-organises the Over The Edge literary events in Galway City.

According to Juliet Wilson, writing in New Hope International Review, “his is a committed, engaged poetry, shot through with both humour and melancholy.”

We'll also have poetry read by Alan Jude Moore. Alan is a Dubliner whose poetry has been published in a wide range of journals here and abroad, including Poetry Ireland Review, The Stinging Fly, Kestrel (USA), Jacobs Ladder (USA), Pelagos (Italy) – and, of course, Moloch. He took part in the Poetry Ireland Introductions readings in 2001.

Alan’s collection, Black State Cars, was published by Salmon Poetry, and was the recipient of a Salmon Poetry Publication Prize for a first collection.

Poet and songwriter Stephen Kelly is from Drimnagh, Dublin. He has been published in Watermarks and entertained the masses with wonderful readings in a variety of Dublin venues. His poem 'Ladybird' featured in the first issue of Moloch.

Plus there'll be music from The Perfect Consonants, sometimes known as the Darran-Mark-and-Aoife Quartet. Mark Noonan, Darran Kelly and Aoife McGrane have been writing and playing songs together for the past two years. This summer they've been gigging like nobody's business, and the Moloch night will be their last blast for the season. Mark's series of City poems makes an appearance in the current issue of Moloch, while Darran's plays have been hailed by Irish play-writing legend Frank McGuinness as "that rarest of theatrical joys - the real thing!"

The night kicks off at 7pm at The Winding Stair on Ormond Quay. Admission is free, and all are welcome. See http://molochjournal.blogspot.com/ or contact editor[at]moloch.ie for further details.