Summer Chorus of Irish Poets at the Troubadour, London

international | arts and media | event notice Saturday April 25, 2009 13:10 by Over The Edge

mon 27 apr: 8-10 pm: "a summer chorus" with susan millar dumars, mary o'donnell, jen wainwright, ann pilling, lorna shaughnessy, michael mckimm, john walsh and martina evans

mon 27 apr: 8-10 pm: "a summer chorus" with susan millar dumars, mary o'donnell, jen wainwright, ann pilling, lorna shaughnessy, michael mckimm, john walsh and martina evans___

A stunningly diverse chorus of voices - new and established - to open our Summer Season...

- Galway poet/activist Susan Millar DuMars ("Big Pink Umbrella", Salmon, 2008) - poems & short-stories published in UK, US and Ireland;

- novelist/short-story-writer Mary O'Donnell ("The Place of Miracles: New and Selected Poems", New Island, 2006);

- Jen Wainwright winner/commended in Foyle Young Poet and Ragged Raven comps; - Troubadour Prize commended Ann Pilling (b. Lancs) also a Smith/Doorstop winner - first collection "Home Field" (Arrowhead, 2008);

- Galway-University Spanish lecturer, Belfast-born Lorna Shaughnessy ("Torching the Brown River", Salmon, 2008); - 2007-Gregory-winner Michael McKimm, from Giant's Causeway, Co. Antrim, 1st collection, "Still This Need" (Heaventree, 2009);

- John Walsh ("Love's Enterprise Zone", Doire Press, 2007) from Derry, now Galway's "North Beach Poetry Nights" organiser.

- Martina Evans (b. Co. Cork), lives in London, has published 3 novels & 4 poetry collections including "Facing the Public" (Anvil, 2009) "Martina Evans's poems are a miracle, for the way they combine total clarity with profundity: the way the apparently innocent and observant humour of their narrative surface covers a compassion and understanding that are often heartbreaking and heartbroken. Tragedy and cheerfulness are inextricable here. 'Facing the Public' is my book of the year." Bernard O'Donoghue

Anne-Marie Fyfe is Organiser of coffee-house poetry at the troubadourwww.coffeehousepoetry.org in the famous Troubadour basement: London's liveliest & best-loved poetry venue...___ readings, mondays from 8 to 10 pm at 263-267 Old Brompton Road LONDON SW5