Over the Edge readings end year on a high note

The Featured Readers for the December Over the Edge reading are Kim Moore, Michael Gallagher, and Felicia ‘Flish’ McCarthy. Over the Edge will take place on Thursday, December 17, at Galway City Library on Augustine Street, from 6.30-8pm.

Salthill-based Felicia ‘Flish’ McCarthy is a regular participant in poetry workshops at Galway Arts Centre and works as a professional energy medicine practitioner when she isn’t writing. A Masters graduate in Language and Literature at Trinity College Dublin, she previously lived in Dublin and Denver. Her poems have appeared in publications such as Boyne Berries, Skylight 47, Infusions, This Never Happened II, and the anthology The Sea.

Michael Gallagher was a successful scriptwriter before switching to prose, having written comedy for the both the BBC and Channel Four. He has also co-authored several plays. In 2014 he won the Galway’s Great Read creative writing competition with his short story, First Light. Michael is currently editor of the free Galway magazine, Westword.

Cumbrian writer, Kim Moore, who was born in 1981, is one of the leading new voices in British poetry. Her first full-length collection, The Art of Falling, was published by Seren in April 2015, and she has won many awards for her work. These include the Poetry Business Pamphlet award for her first pamphlet If We Could Speak Like Wolves, as judged by Britain’s Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy.

If We Could Speak Like Wolves was chosen as an Independent Book of the Year in 2012 and was shortlisted for the Michael Marks Pamphlet Award and the Lakeland Book of the Year Award. Moore’s work has been anthologised in Salt’s Best British Poetry 2012 and Oxfam’s Lung Jazz.

There will be the usual open-mic after the Featured Readers at Over the Edge have finished. New readers are always welcome. The MC will be Susan Millar DuMars.

And the year is ending on a high note for Over the Edge, as the Arts Council is to increase its funding by 75 per cent for next year from €4,000 to €7,060 – which was exactly the amount they requested. So there’ll be plenty of reason to celebrate at the final Over the Edge for 2015.

For further details on the reading phone 087-6431748.