Trim Poetry Festival 2021 : Saturday 13 March.

This is the third annual Trim Poetry Festival and the second virtual festival. As last year it will be a mixture of live Zoom events and pre-recorded videos on YouTube with links here and on Facebook.

Here is the programme.

10am: Live Online Poetry Workshop 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 this summer.

Workshop will take place on Zoom starting at 10 am on Saturday 13 March. The cost is 20 Euro and it is limited to 15 participants. Book using the PayPay button on the right..

 3pm: Readings by members of Boyne Writers Group.

 4pm: Results of Trim Poetry Competition 2021:

Introduction and Comments by the judge, Jean O’Brien.

Readings by the winner, the runners up and some of the shortlisted poets.

6pm: Poetry Reading by Jean O’Brien.

Jean O’Brien has five poetry collections to her name; The Shadow Keeper (1997), Dangerous Dresses (2005), Lovely Legs (2009), Merman (2012) and Fish On A Bicycle: New & Selected Poems (2016 & 2018). Her Awards include the Arvon International Poetry Award, and the Fish International Poetry Award. She holds an M. Phil in Creative Writing from Trinity College, Dublin, and tutors in Creative Writing.

 7pm: Poetry Reading by Orla Fay from her chapbook “Drawn to the Light”.

Orla Fay, a member of Boyne Writers, edits Drawn to the Light Press, a new online magazine of poetry. Her chapbook Drawn to the Light was published in October 2020, and her first full collection is forthcoming from Salmon Poetry. She edited Boyne Berries for six years. 

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

Five minutes each. Use this link to join the Zoom Opem Mic. The room opens at 7.45pm and people can register to read by adding their names to the chat in Zoom. Readers will be chosen on a first come basis. Maximum five minutes each.

 https://us02web.zoom.us/j/5340756676 : Meeting ID: 534 075 6676

Rachel Coventry’s poetry has appeared in many journals including Poetry Ireland Review, The SHop, Cyphers, The Honest Ulsterman and The Stony Thursday Book. She has just completed a PhD on Heidegger’s poetics at NUIG. Her debut collection, Afternoon Drinking at the Jolly Butchers, was published by Salmon Poetry in 2018.

 A Reminder that most of the events of Festival 2020 are still available to view below on this blog.