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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.

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March 5: CreativeWriting@Comhlamh

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african_labyrinth_4When? Saturday, March 5, 2016, from 10.30 am to 4.30 pm. Where? Comhlamh Office, 12 Parliament Street, Dublin 2 https://goo.gl/0wD1wl. Cost? €75 / Early-bird special €65 before February 27. Pay by Cheque, PO or PayPal.

Have you lived and worked in the Global South? Do you have stories to tell? This workshop is an opportunity to mine the rich veins of your memory under the guidance of writer and AWA certified writing group leader Monica Corish. Monica has travelled and worked widely in Africa, and is a MA graduate of DSC Kimmage.

  • “Bringing together RDWs and creative writing makes such good sense!”

Whether your journey lasted three weeks or many years; whether you came home last week or 30 years ago; whether you worked in an emergency, in long-term development, or in human rights; whether you worked as a volunteer, a missionary, or a professional; whether you are an experienced writer or a novice: if you have a story to tell, this is the workshop for you.

  • “Good facilitation created a safe space to share very personal experiences.…”

Kinlough Women’s Writing Group Spring 2016

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12552640_1517075198586900_4748255615836013050_nIf you are afraid of the blank page, your fear will dissolve. If you’re already writing but your words feel stale, you will come away from these workshops refreshed…

When? Fortnightly on Wednesday evenings: Feb 10 & 24, Mar 9 & 23, April 6 & 20, May 4 from 7 pm until 9:30 pm  

Where? 7 Clanchy Court, Kinlough, Co Leitrim   

How Much? €110 / early bird €95 if paid by February 3

Places limited. Early booking advised. For information or to book, contact:  monicacorish@gmail.com / 087 6414185