Poetry workshop planned

Following up on their first writers workshop last autumn and fresh from their very successful 'Power of Three' readings event, Kilcullen Writers Group is planning another workshop.

This one is dedicated to poetry and will be held on Saturday 19 April, at a venue yet to be confirmed.

The event will be facilitated by poet Nessa O’Mahony, and the theme is on 'revision/re-writing'.

"Participants will be asked to submit some of their work in advance of the event so that Nessa can give them practical advice on making the most of their pieces," says Pauline Fagan of the KWG.

Nessa O’Mahony is a Dublin-born poet whose work has appeared in a number of Irish, UK, and North American periodicals, and has also been translated into several European languages. Some of her material has been broadcast by RTÉ radio.

She won the National Women’s Poetry Competition in 1997 and was shortlisted for the Patrick Kavanagh Prize and Hennessy Literature Awards. Her first poetry collection, 'Bar Talk', was first published by iTaLiCs Press in Dublin in 1999. Her second, 'Trapping a Ghost', was published by Bluechrome Publishing of Bristol in Spring 2005.

She was awarded an Irish Arts Council literature bursary in 2004. She is Assistant Editor of UK literary journal 'Orbis' and edits the online literary journal 'Electric Acorn'. She teaches creative writing at the University of Wales, Bangor.

Brian Byrne.