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All Ireland Poetry Slam - the result

28/11/2015

 
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The waiting is over, and we now know our 2015 All Ireland Poetry Slam Champion!

​After preliminary heats in the four provinces, Connacht, Leinster, Munster and Ulster Live Poetry two finalists from each province came to Belfast to slam it out at his year's final.

The finalists were:
Connacht: Fiinn Costelloe & Cathal Holden
Leinster: John Cummins & Clara Rose Thornton
Munster: Cormac Lally & Paul McNamara
Ulster: Philip Doherty & Rory Jones 

Clare Rose Thorton, Paul McNamara and Rory Jones got through to the final, but in the end, the overall winner was the winner of the Belfast heat, Rory Jones.

Commenting on one of the poems he read, 'I Bought an iPhone for my iPhone', Jones said:
"A satirical look at modern dependence on technology, and how the relationship of consumer and product blurs inseparably... but that sounds really pretentious. Really it's a poem about my funny talking phone and funny talking phones are very funny!"

Many thanks goes to our guest judges for the night: Chelley McLear, Elizabeth McGeown, David Braziel and Geraldine O'Kane. Also thank you to our awesome guest readers who performed between the rounds: Elizabeth, Diane Morrison, and the troupe of Zakk Appleyard, Dave Wilson and Anthony Ferguson, united at 'The Australian Paperboy League'. Gratitude also to Brian John Spencer, who sketched beautifully all our readers at their were on the mic.

Phenomenal Woman: A Celebration of Maya Angelou

25/11/2015

 
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Marginal Theatre in association with Poetry NI and Northern Ireland Human Rights Festival will present readings of Dr Angelou's poetry and performance of music associated with this famous American civil rights activist and author.

The event starts at 6.30 with a wine reception and some blues music while people arrive, introduction, a selection of poems and extracts by Angelou , then some Jazz piano, saxophone, vocals; then Angelou-inspired poets will read related work.

Readers include Shelley Tracey, Paula Matthews, Michelle Dowd, Wilma Kenny, Olive Kabuti, Vicky Parsons, Colin Hassard, Nandi Jola, Jim Meredith Patricia-Devlin Hill, David Smylie and Maria McManus.

FourXFour Poetry Journal: Issue 14

19/11/2015

 
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We're delighted to bring you our latest issue of FourXFour Poetry Journal, with Gerard McKeown, Rachel McCrum, Marion Clarke and Jonathan Hicks, showcasing Northern Irish poetry at its best with four more poets from the North, two still here, one now in Edinburgh, and one in London.

Read it online and download for free here.

'Small Miracles' poetry workshop at CS Lewis Festival

15/11/2015

 
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We're hosting a poetry workshop in Linen Hall Library​ this Saturday as part of the wonderful CS Lewis Festival.

Taking Lewis’s idea of ‘retelling in small letters’, this workshop draws upon writing exercises based around short-form poetry, or ‘micropoetry’. Considering the big possibilities that come from brief words, we will explore traditional forms such haiku, tanka, elfchen and limerick, encouraging you to tell your own miracles through the page. 

Time: 11am - 12.45pm
Saturday 21st November
Price: £12: order online

View more events for the CS Lewis Festival here.

Grand Final of the All Ireland Poetry Slam

15/11/2015

 
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Poetry NI present: The Grand Final of the All Ireland Poetry Slam

Doors open 9pm, Start 9.30pm.

This is the ninth annual All Ireland Poetry Slam Final, returning back to the city where the first winner inaugurated the competition, when the Galway Liverpool poet Brendan Murphy was crowned champion in McHugh's bar, Belfast, 2007.

​After 10 preliminary competitive slam poetry heats in the four provinces, one each in Connacht, Leinster, Munster, and six spread across five counties of the north - culminating in a seventh at the inaugural All Ulster Live Poetry (Slam) Final in Fermanagh - two finalists from each province, representing themselves and live poetry on this island, will slam it out at this year's 2015 
final for the title of All Ireland Live Poetry Champion 2015/16.

The finalists are:
Connacht: Fiinn Costelloe & Cathal Holden
Leinster: John Cummins & Clara Rose Thornton
Munster: Cormac Lally & Paul McNamara
Ulster: Philip Doherty & Rory Jones

We'll also be announcing some guest acts joining us across the next few days...

Tickets £4 available on the night or preorder online at:
http://crescentarts.ticketsolve.com/shows/873542690/events
This event is BYOB.

Purely Poetry - October and November readers

7/11/2015

 
Thanking our poets who read at November and October's Purely Poetry open mic nights:

November:
Willetta Fleming, Connaire McCullough, Malachi Kelly, David Davies, Zakk Appleyard, Louise Anne Rowan, Elizabeth McGeown, Nathan Thanki, Peter Francis Fahy, Dave Wilson, Will Donnelly, 'Gerardrick' (plus saxophone), Amy McAllister, Geraldine O'Kane, Mary, Steve Smyth, Robert Wilson, Patrick Taggart, Nikki Cahill and Jason Ashford.

A special thanks to Anthony Ferguson and David Braziel for stepping in to share hosting duties at Colin Dardis was out with a nasty back injury.

October:
David Smylie, Paul Daniel Rafferty, Anthony Ferguson, Helen Harrison, Helen Hastings, Willetta Fleming, Connaire McCullough, Clodagh Harvey, Joyce Louison, Ben Freeman, Louise Anne Rowan, Dave Wilson, Geraldine O'Kane, Peter Adair, Chris Jenkins, Patrick McNicholl, Laura Cameron, Jenny Cleland, Mark Cooper, Colm Bea, Ali Cameron, Lora Corr, Nathan Thanki and Michael Stuart.

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