Boyne
Berries 26 will be launched on Thursday, 03rd October 2019 at 8 pm
in The Castle Arch Hotel, Trim, Co. Meath by poet Maurice Devitt.
MAURICE DEVITT completed the MA
in Poetry Studies at Mater Dei, won the Trocaire/Poetry Ireland Competition and
was placed or shortlisted in many other competitions including The Patrick
Kavanagh Award, The Listowel Collection Competition and Cúirt New Writing
Award. Selected for Poetry Ireland Introductions in 2016, he was a featured
poet at the Poets in Transylvania Festival in 2015 and a guest speaker at the
John Berryman Centenary Conference in both Dublin and Minneapolis. His poems
have been nominated for Pushcart, Forward and Best of the Net prizes. He is
curator of the Irish Centre for Poetry Studies site. He has
recently published his debut collection Growing Up in Colour with Doire
Press.
The
magazine will be available to purchase on the night. A special feature of the
issue is the inclusion of the poems shortlisted for Trim Poetry Competition
2019. Contributors to Boyne Berries 26 will read on the night. All welcome.
Boyne
Berries 26 contains the work of Steve Denehan Fred Johnston Maria Isakova
Bennett Maurice
Devitt Frank Murphy Evan Costigan Tomas McGuiness Polly Richardson Fiona
Sherlock Frances Browner Cathal Ennis Deirdre Crosby Gráinne Daly Nora Brennan Brian
Kirk Jackie Lynam Jean O’Brien Maeve O’Sullivan John Paul Davies Eimear Bourke Marc
Gijsemans Stephen McNulty Christina Hession David Butler Kevin Griffin Kevin
Higgins Harry Owen Orla Fay Esther Murbach Eamon McGuinness Amanda Bell Frank
Farrelly Catriona Clutterbuck Patrick Deeley Ruth Quinlan K.S. Moore Patrick
Lodge Glen Wilson Paddy
Smith Leah McDwyer Karen J McDonnell Margarita Meklina Rachel Sneyd
Boyne
Writers Group acknowledges the generous assistance of Meath County Council Arts
Office.
