Monday, 11th May

This Monday Fringe Event (not managed or produced by the Munster Literature Centre) is an event that we are delighted to draw attention to.

Ó Bhéal go Béal

7.30pm, The Hayloft Bar | Free

7.30 p.m. Cork and Irish Poetry Films
8.30 p.m. Five Word Challenge
9.20 p.m. Guest Poet Bebe Ashley & Open-Mic

Ó Bhéal go Béal is a poetry event held on the 2nd Monday of each month in The Hayloft Bar (upstairs at The Long Valley, Winthrop St). It continues in the footsteps of Ó Bhéal and this edition of Ó Bhéal go Béal will mark the first anniversary of the event in its new form. The guest poet is Bebe Ashley.

Bebe Ashley lives in County Down. Her work is most recently published in Granta, The Stinging Fly, bath magg, and Modern Poetry in Translation. Her debut collection Gold Light Shining (Banshee Press) was selected for Read Mór, a nationwide book-gifting project in Ireland. Work published in Bebe’s second collection, Harbour Doubts, won the Ivan Juritz Prize for Creative Experiment and was Highly Commended in the Forward Prize. Bebe has received a number of grants and awards in support of her writing including a Creative Practitioner Bursary from Belfast City Council, an Agility Award from the Arts Council of Ireland, a British Council Fellowship for Bundanon, Australia and a Digital Evolution Award from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland. Bebe has taught students at universities across the world and represented Northern Ireland at the British Council Literature Seminar in Berlin. www.bebe-ashley.com