‘So Say So’ is an event that spotlights poetry, storytelling, and music. It is curated by the esteemed poet, Stephen James Smith. Each event will feature a distinguished national or international poet. They will be joined by musicians Basciville for a unique, collaborative performance. The 5-Word-Challenge open mic segment is open to everyone, with performers limited to 5 minutes each on a first-come, first-served basis.
Autumn: October 15th – Vona Groarke
Vona Groarke has published fourteen books with The Gallery
Press, including nine original poetry collections, and two translations from
the Irish, most recently Woman of Winter (2023), a version of the much-loved
Irish poem usually known in English as, 'The Lament of the Hag of Beare'. She
published Hereafter: The Telling Life of Ellen O'Hara with New York
University Press (2022). A Cullman Fellow at the New York Public Library
2018-19; former editor of Poetry Ireland Review and selector for the UK's
Poetry Book Society, she has taught at the University of Manchester since 2007.
She is the current Writer in Residence at St John's College, Cambridge, and
otherwise lives in Co. Sligo in the West of Ireland.
Image Credit: Steve Pyke
