Trim Poetry Festival Day 3 - Sunday 7 June 2020

11am: "Tips on How to Sustain a Flourishing Writing Practice" - Clinic by Anne Tannam in which she explores ways to help writers sustain their writing practice. 

Anne Tannam's website

4pm: Anne Tannam launches "Troubles" by Michael Farry. 
Launch of Michael Farry’s new poetry collection, “Troubles” by Anne Tannam. Welcome by the publisher Dominic Taylor of Revival Press followed by a reading from the collection by the author. 

"Troubles" may be purchased on the Revival Press website or on Michael Farry's blog.


6pm: Close of Festival with Some Poet Friends who have had long associations with Boyne Berries, including Carolyne Van Der Meer, Kate Dempsey and Maurice Devitt, reading their poems from the recently published Boyne Berries - The Covid Issue.

Kate Dempsey's The Space Between.

Maurice Devitt's Growing Up in Colour.

Carolyne Van Der Meer's Motherlode, Journeywoman.

8pm: Open Mic on Zoom with Rachel Coventry as MC.

End of Trim Poetry Festival 2020. 
See you all in March 2021!

Trim Poetry Festival : Day 2: Saturday 6 June 2020

10am:  Online workshop by festival poet-in-residence Anne Tannam. 


11.30am: Celebrating Boyne Berries Covers. Slideshows highlighting the striking Boyne Berries magazine covers designed by Greg Hastings (2007-2014) 

and by Rory O'Sullivan (2014-2020).

3pm: Readings by members of local writers groups.

Introduction by Frances Browne, secreatary of Boyne Writers Group.

The Bull’s Arse Group, Navan

Frank Murphy of Meath Writers Circle

LitLab, the Cavan/Meath Writers Group. 

For more information about the latest LitLab anthology, Where You May Find Yourself , edited by Anthony J Quinn (2019), see the group's website here.

5pm: Results of the Trim Poetry Competition 2020

Introduction by judge Orla Fay. Readings by the winner, the runners up and the seven other shortlisted poets. 

7pm: Poetry Reading by Anne Tannam

Anne Tannam is a Dublin poet with two published collections: Tides Shifting Across My Sitting Room Floor (Salmon Poetry 2017) and Take This Life (WordOnTheStreet 2011). Her third, Twenty-six Letters of a New Alphabet, is forthcoming from Salmon Poetry in summer 2020. 

Anne Tannam's website

Anne Tannam's "Tides Shifting Across My Sitting Room Floor"

Trim Poetry Festival - Friday 5 June 2020

Festival Opening and Welcome
by Boyne Writers chair Michael Farry, Welcome to Trim by Noel French, chair of Trim Municipal District and by Trim Tourist Network.

Launch of Boyne Berries 27 
by editor, Orla Fay and readings by contributors Gerard Smyth, Felicity McCarthy, John D Kelly, Lorraine Carey, Peter Goulding and Sinéad MacDevitt.

Readings by contributors Maria Isakova Bennett, Glenn Hubbard, Mark Ward, Elizabeth McGeown, Diarmuid Fitzgerald, Kate Ennals and Kevin Graham.

Readings by contributors Polly Richardson, Richard W Halperin, Peter Adair, Marc Gijsemans, Honor Duff and Anne Callan.

Readings by contributors Orla Fay, Arthur Broomfield, Frances Browne, Eamon Cooke, K S Moore and Linda Ibbotson.

Readings by contributors Liam McNevin and Michael Farry.

Purchase copies of Boyne Berries 27 here.