Poetry Day Ireland in Strokestown – 26th April
Poetry Day Ireland – Strokestown – we are getting ready Come and help us celebrate Poems as Social Objects – http://www.poetryireland.ie/whats-on/20-20-vision
Roscommon Schools Poetry Exhibition
Roscommon Schools (Primary and Secondary) Shortlisted Poems can be seen in Strokestown Library, with kind permission of Helen Kerins, Strokestown Branch Librarian. To read the poems click here HERE The prizes will be awarded in The Percy French Hotel, Strokestown on Friday 4th May, at 5pm. All welcome For further details on the festival click Read more about Roscommon Schools Poetry Exhibition[…]
Jo Shapcott & Maura Dooley Poetry Writing Course
Jo Shapcott and Maura Dooley (future 2019 and former 2017) judges of Strokestown International Poetry Prize are giving a poetry writing workshop. Check it out here, and book your place http://www.tynewydd.wales/course/poetry-at-the-start/
As Moon and Mother Collide
Mary Melvin Geoghegan launched her beautiful new collection – ‘As Moon and Mother Collide’ in Backstage Theatre, Longford on Thursday evening. She will be having another launch at Strokestown on Saturday 5th May at 12pm in Strokestown Park House.
Street Poems Go Live!
Poetry lovers are in for a treat in Strokestown next month as the International Poetry Festival gets under way – but visitors can get in the mood right now with street poems already in place around the town. Some of the winning poems in the 20/20 Poetry Competition, which was arranged to mark the festival’s Read more about Street Poems Go Live![…]
Poetry on the Mountain
Poetry lovers gathered on the side of the mountain on Easter Monday to mark the launch of Strokestown’s 20th International Poetry Festival. They met at Sliabh Bán Wind Farm for a poetry-themed Easter Egg Hunt over a 2.5km route below the wind turbines. Chocolate eggs and tickets to some of the Poetry Festival events were Read more about Poetry on the Mountain[…]
Poetry Treasure Hunt and Festival Launch
Poetry Treasure Hunt and Festival Launch Strokestown’s 20th International Poetry Festival launches with a poetry-themed mountain treasure hunt on Sliabh Bán on Easter Monday. Suitable for families, the two and half kilometre walk includes poetry clues from ‘poets’ such as Bob Dylan, Sam Smith, David Bowie and Joan Baez, alongside Billy Collins and Paddy Bushe and others. There will be Easter Read more about Poetry Treasure Hunt and Festival Launch[…]
Sláinte, Louise!
You can hear poems by this year’s Hennessy award winner, Louise G Cole, at Strokestown International Poetry Festival over May Bank Holiday weekend. On Friday, May 4th at 7pm in the Percy French Hotel, Louise will be helping to launch the Festival’s annual anthology; on Saturday, May 5th in Bawn Street, Louise will be joining the Hermit Read more about Sláinte, Louise![…]
Louise is Hennessy Emerging Poetry winner 2018!
Congratulations to Louise, who is the 2018 Emerging Poetry winner of the Hennessy Literary Awards 2018. https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/hennessy-literary-awards-2018-emerging-poetry-winner-1.3268473?mode=amp Louise will be reading at the Strokestown International Festival, May 3rd – 7th 2018
International gathering to read Poetry in Castlerea
Students from Galway Roscommon Education Training Board, and Strokestown Poetry followers gathered to read poetry (from their own countries) on International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination which coincided with World Poetry Day, on the 21st March 2018. The group included readers from Spain, Romania, Poland, Ireland, Brazil and Mexico. Fernando Cabrita (Portugese poet) Read more about International gathering to read Poetry in Castlerea[…]