Busy time for Ballaghaderreen writer
Ballaghaderreen writer Louise G Cole, pictured here reading her poetry at the Granard Booktown Festival.
It has been a busy few weeks for Ballaghaderreen writer Louise G Cole. She was a guest at the recent Poetry and Pints Festival event in Granard, County Longford alongside fellow Midlands writers Mary Melvin Geoghegan and Darragh Coady.
Louise will be back at Roscommon Arts Centre on Saturday, April 26th for the third monthly Literary Leafings, when her guest will be Athlone poet Amy Abdullah Barry. The event, from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. offers an opportunity to hear Louise and guests share their poetry and prose, with a lively open mic at the end for audience members to join in.
Poetry Day Ireland, a national day celebrating poetry on Thursday, May 1st, sees Louise running an informal creative poetry workshop in Castlerea Library. The theme is ‘May Day’ and Louise will take participants through where to look for ideas, poetic forms and styles, and how to turn the mundane into something extraordinary though poetry. The workshop, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., is free, no experience necessary, just a love of words.
