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Coast to Coast to Coast Special Irish issue to launch at Belfast Book Festival 2018
16 May 2018
The Coast to Coast to Coast Journal designed and created by Maria Isakova-Bennett, and edited by Maria and Michael Brown, is a hand-stitched publication designed to be both a small piece of artwork, and a poetry journal. Each issue containing the work of a maximum of twenty poets, is a unique numbered artefact produced as a limited edition.
Maria and Michael will launch a special Irish Issue of Coast to Coast to Coast at Belfast Book Festival which features new work from poets including John Mee, Keith Payne, Heather Richardson, Stephanie Conn, Nessa O’Mahony, Michael Ray, Therese Kieran, Michael Farry, Annette Skade, Moyra Donaldson, James Meredith, Attracta Fahy, Paul Jeffcutt, Michael Sheehan, Karen McDonnell, Olive Broderick, Georgi Gill, Daragh Breen, Jane Robinson and Emma McKervey.
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There will be readings by poets featured in the journal and an opportunity for an open mic
ephemerae Issue #1
2 May 2018
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James has haiku published in the first issue of ephemerae, a new international journal of haikai, tanka & beyond.
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Edited and published by Shrikaanth Krishnamurthy,
ephemerae Volume 1, A, is available from April 2018, runs to 112 pages, & features contributors from around the world.
30 Northern Irish poets for National poetry reading month, including James Meredith
9 April 2018
April may be the cruellest month, as TS Eliot famously suggested, but it is also National Poetry Writing Month (or NaPoWriMo for short). Each April, since 2003, poets have taken up the challenge to try and write a poem a day for thirty days. National Poetry Reading Month arose as an offshoot of NaPoWriMo, encouraging people (and not just poets) to read more poetry, and discover new writers.
Lagan Online presents 30 poems by poets from Northern Ireland. We may be starting late into the month, but there is still plenty here to unearth and revel in, so bookmark this page, start reading, and check back each day. Included are some well known names, work from our 12NOW writers, and some poets you may not be familiar with yet. Enjoy and happy reading.
