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"