North Beach Nights poetry slam, Galway

galway | arts and media | event notice Tuesday April 25, 2006 00:51 by Kevin Higgins - Over The Edge

Thursday 27th April

North Beach Nights proudly presents

Trish Casey (Cúirt Grand Slam Winner 2004)
Kevin Higgins (Cúirt Grand Slam Winner 2003)
Stephen Murray (Cúirt Grand Slam Winner 2005)

and sponsored by Poetry Ireland

John W. Sexton.

North Beach Nights
proudly presents

Trish Casey (Cúirt Grand Slam Winner 2004)
Kevin Higgins (Cúirt Grand Slam Winner 2003)
Stephen Murray (Cúirt Grand Slam Winner 2005)

and

Sponsored by Poetry Ireland

John W. Sexton.

The Grand Slam Winners will perform their winning Poem
and new material.

Special Guest Reader

John W. Sexton: Poet, short story writer,
> dramatist, children's novelist, radio scriptwriter,
> broadcaster and performer.
>
> He is the author of three collections of
> poetry, The Prince's Brief Career, Foreword by Nuala
> Ní Dhomhnaill, (Cairn Mountain Press, 1995), Shadows
> Bloom / Scáthanna Faoi Bhláth, a book of haiku with
> translations into Irish by Gabriel Rosenstock, and
> most recently Vortex (Doghouse, 2005).
>
> He also created and wrote The Ivory Tower for
> RTE radio, which ran to over one hundred half-hour
> episodes. His novels based on this series, The
> Johnny Coffin Diaries & Johnny Coffin School-Dazed
> are both published by The O'Brien Press, and have
> been translated into Italian and Serbian.
>
> Under the ironic pseudonym of Sex W. Johnston
> he has recorded an album with legendary Stranglers
> frontman, Hugh Cornwell, entitled Sons Of Shiva,
> which has been released on Track Records. His ballad
> the streets beneath the ocean was recorded by
> Cannery Row and appears on their cd No Homes under
> the title Underwater Girl. He has also appeared live
> on stage with The Frames.

PLUS

North Beach Nights Mega-Slam

We are happy to give all the entrants for the
Cúirt Grand Slam on Saturday 29th

this opportunity to test their nerves, their performance and what we are
up against.
Two poems max. 3 minutes each.
The winner on the night could be the next Cúirt Grand Slammer winner
on the way to Slampappi in Chicago!!

So be there on

Thursday 27th April
BK's Winebar
Spanish Parade, Galway
at 9.30 pm

Keep Galway Slamming!!!!

North Beach Nights appreciates and acknowledges the support of
Galway City Council
and
Poetry Ireland