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| Welsh poet Mike Jenkins |
Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop presents ‘A Politicised Evening of Poetry’ with prominent Welsh poet
Mike Jenkins, and Kevin Higgins. Both poets write poems which comment, often
acerbically, on the world as it is. All are welcome
to attend, even members of Fine Gael or visiting British tourists who voted for
David Cameron. There is no cover charge.
The event will take place at Charlie Byrne’s
Bookshop, Middle Street, Galway on Thursday,
August 20th, 6.30pm.
Mike Jenkins is a retired secondary school teacher who lives in
Merthyr Tydfil in south Wales. His first poems were published in the Irish
Press newspaper in the 1970s. He is a winner of the Eric Gregory Award, Wales
Book of the Year and John Tripp Award for Spoken Poetry. Mike is a former
editor of Poetry Wales and co-editor and founder of RED POETS magazine, which has just
celebrated its 20th anniversary. He has published novels, short stories and
children's books. His latest book is called Shedding
Paper Skin, a collection of poetry, is published by Gwasg Carreg
Gwalch. One critic said: “Mike Jenkins writes in a unique style that is
sometimes raucous and often sardonic, but it can also be tender and plaintive."
Kevin
Higgins most recent collection of poems, The
Ghost In The Lobby, was launched at the 2014 Cúirt Festival by Mick Wallace
TD. His poems also feature in Identity
Parade – New British and Irish Poets (Bloodaxe, 2010) and in The
Hundred Years’ War: modern war poems (Ed Neil Astley, Bloodaxe May
2014). Last year his work was the
subject of a paper titled ‘The Case of Kevin Higgins: Or The Present State of
Irish Poetic Satire’ given by David Wheatley at a symposium at the University
of Aberdeen. Mentioning The War, a collection of his
essays and reviews, was published by Salmon in April, 2012. Kevin recently re-joined the British Labour
Party, as an overseas member, almost twenty four years after he was shown the
door for being a tad too Militant in his socialism. He is currently curating an
online project ’21 Poems: 21 Reasons for Choosing Jeremy Corbyn’.
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| Kevin Higgins attending launch of the 21s issue of ROPES magazine |
All are
most welcome to attend. There is no cover charge.
The event will take place at Charlie Byrne’s
Bookshop, Middle Street, Galway on Thursday,
August 20th, 6.30pm.
