Time: 3.00pm – 4.00pm
Date: 20th of September
Venue – Sligo Central Library, Stephen Street
Phone 0719111675 or email sligolib@sligococo.ie to reserve your place.
Join a quartet of poets, Sinéad Mc Clure, Crona Gallagher, Maggie Kilcoyne and Maeve Mc Kenna for a special poetry reading for Culture Night Sligo 2024.
Maeve McKenna lives in Sligo, Ireland. Her work has appeared in Poetry Ireland Review, Banshee, Rattle and Mslexia. She was a finalist in the Gregory O’Donoghue Poetry Competition 2024. She is the author of two pamphlets, A Dedication to Drowning and Body as a Home for this Darkness. She is currently studying for an MA in Poetry at Queen’s University, Belfast.
Sinéad McClure‘s writing is published on radio, in anthologies, in magazines and online including; HIVE, The Long Poem Journal, The Honest Ulsterman, The Cormorant Broadsheet, The Stinging Fly, Southword, Live Encounters and many other fine publications. In 2022 she was recipient of the Roscommon Bursary Award for her first solo chapbook The Word According to Crow. She co-authored The songs I sing are sisters with Scottish writer Cáit O’Neill McCullagh. She is a winner of the Ó Bhéal Five Words Poetry Award and The Cathal Bui Award. Sinéad graduated with an MA in Creative Practice and a first-class honours degree in February 2024 from ATU Sligo, with a specialism in Poetry.
Cróna Gallagher is an award-winning studio holder at Leitrim Sculpture Centre, Manorhamilton where she practices printmaking alongside the written word.
Fine art Print work has been exhibited at national and international level and is held in both private and public collections including the Government Offices of Northern Ireland, Caddebostan Cultural Centre, Istanbul, Awagami International, Japan and Ginestrelle contemporary art in Assisi, Italy among others.
Short fiction and poetry have been featured in quality literary journals and anthologies including Poetry Ireland Review, The Moth, Magma, The Cormorant, Prairie Schooner, Revival and Global Poetry Anthology among others.
Both her literary and visual practice have been awarded arts residencies, bursaries and grants including from the Arts Council of Ireland, Culture Ireland, Leitrim, Mayo, Offaly and Sligo County Council arts offices.
Mags Kilcoyne is a Singer-Songwriter and Poet based in Sligo.
A recipient of an agility award with the Arts Council in 2021 has offered her time to work on her album and collection of songs which she hopes to release later this year. Mags was delighted to receive a poetry commission from The Brid Festival & Sligo County Council Arts Office this Spring. The Brid festival is Sligo’s first inaugural festival celebrating women in our community through Brigid the Saint, the Goddess and Deity, Mags uses the thematic expression of love, joy, grief, and companionship as inspiration for the writing of her songs. Mags also holds specialties in Theatre and Film and enjoys using strong visual images as a foundation for the construction of her songs and poems
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