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Corafoos / Sigafish at 5 Glens Arts Festival

Looking forward to reading at the Five Glens Arts Festival in Manorhamilton August 26 – 28, and to Crime Writing Workshop with Tom

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At the Five Glens Arts Festival on Saturday, 27 August,

Manorhamilton artist Rachel Webb (see Facebook page Rachel Webb + Camera) will lead the regional launch of A Dying Language, Monica Corish’s poetry collection published by the Irish Hospice Association. Monica will read from that collection and from Gleanings: Poetry Inspired by the Leitrim Observer at 8:30 pm. An open-mic session will follow the launch. For additional information see www.monicacorish.ie.

My Crime Writing Workshop at the Five Glens Arts Festival will run from noon to 2 pm on Saturday in the Glens Centre. The workshop will focus on dialogue and character, highlighted with advice and examples from masters of the genre. Workshop guidelines and a pre-workshop questionnaire are found on-line at www.tomsigafoos.com.

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A Survivor’s Guide to the John Hewitt International Summer School (2016)

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I want to go – great writing Trish

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When Stephen Gordon calls to say that you are one of the ‘chosen few’, it’s ok to go mental like you have won the ‘Literary Lottery’. You get the feeling he’s heard it all before. You know this place will allowyou tobe free of responsibility for a while, to explorewhat’s at your core — the writer. You only realise how lucky you are when the course is over and you’re putting another load into the washing machine from the mountain of washing left by your family, awaiting your return.

IMG_7071 The Royal Grammar School, Armagh The John Hewitt is not any old Summer School. Don’t expect a spa break with 5* accommodation. The basics are covered. It’s clean. If you’re from the North, you will stay in the Royal Grammar School. You will have a bed with clean sheets, pillow and quilt, wardrobe and desk. There’s a shower and toilet down…

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A Dying Language for sale online and in selected bookshops

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“A Dying Language”, published by the Irish Hospice Foundation, is available online from www.monicacorish.ie; from Barnes & Noble and Amazon; and through the Ingram network.
It’s also available from selected independent bookshops: The Winding Stair, Dublin, Liber Books, Sligo and A Novel Idea, Ballyshannon. 
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50% of profits from sales will go to support
the Northwest Hospice
 
It is the kind of collection that one person will give to another and say – I think you might like this, I found it very helpful myself. It is the kind of collection which someone somewhere on a dark night, having changed the sheets for the third time that day, will reach for, read one or two or three of the poems and will feel less alone. – Jane Clarke

Dublin Launch of A Dying Language, with Jane Clarke

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Poet Jane Clarke will launch Poppy at sunsetA Dying Language at the excellent  Winding Stair Bookshop on Tuesday, June 14 at 6:30 p.m. Orla Keegan of the Hospice Foundation will also speak at the event. All are welcome to attend.

The Dublin launch coincides with the 30th anniversary celebrations of the Hospice Foundation, and with Carers Week 2016 – I will also read from the collection at the Launch of Carers Week on June 13, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m.

A Dying Language, inspired primarily by the experience of nursing my mother Teresa when she was dying of cancer, is published by the Hospice Foundation. To read more about the book, read this interview, or click here.

50% of profits from book saleswill go to the Irish Hospice Foundation. For details of launches in Sligo, Manorhamilton, Belfast and elsewhere, click here

 

Limerick Launch of A Dying Language

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Poppy at sunsetMy new poetry collection, A Dying Language, will be launched on Saturday, May 28 at 7:30 PM in Doon Community Centre, Toher Road, Doon, Co Limerick. All are welcome to attend.

The collection is published by the Irish Hospice Foundation. It was inspired by the experience of nursing my mother Teresa in the home where she and my father lived for 35 years. To read more about the book, read this interview, or click here.

Poet Gréagóir Ó Dúill will launch the collection, and Jim Rhatigan of Milford Care Centre’s Compassionate Communities Scheme will also speak. 50% of profits from book sales will go to Milford Hospice.

For details of launches in Dublin, Sligo, Belfast and elsewhere, click here

 

Interview with Crona Gallaher of the Five Glens Festival

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Poet Monica Corish discusses, among other things, her extraordinary new book ‘A Dying Language’, which will be published by the Irish Hospice Foundation Press. Poems from the collection have won the North West Words Poetry Prize and been shortlisted or commended for a number of awards, including the Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine. They have been published widely in Ireland and the UK, including in Poetry Ireland Review.

Monica Corish

Tell us a little about yourself.

I started out studying science. After graduating from college I travelled in Africa. Later I trained as a nurse and worked in South Sudan, Ethiopia, Sierra Leone and Angola. In 2005, the same year that I moved from Dublin to Kinlough, I developed chronic cervical and lumbar disc injuries and had to give up nursing and working overseas. Now I am a full-time writer and writing workshop leader.

You will be launching your new book ‘A…

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