Thursday, October 4, 2018

Beneath Western Skies: programme for SiarScéal Festival 2018 announced

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SiarScéal Festival 2018
19-20 October, Roscommon Town

literary festival inspired by the culture and heritage of County Roscommon, in the heart of Ireland

Beneath Western Skies
- programme for SiarScéal Festival 2018 announced -
SiarScéal Festival 2018 brochure
A photographic and poetry exhibition featuring seascapes, lakes and landscapes of the breathtaking County Sligo, entitled Beneath Western Skies, forms the centrepiece of this year's SiarScéal Festival, the programme for which has just been announced.

Also headlining will be Faye Boland, whose debut collection of poems, Peripheral, takes its title from her overall winning entry at last year's Hanna Greally International Literary Awards that runs as part of the festival. The Awards are on hiatus this year however, a selection of entries from last year accompanies the photographs featured in Beneath Western Skies exhibition.

The festival takes place over two days – Friday and Saturday, 19-20 October – at Roscommon County Library in Roscommon Town. In addition, the Beneath Western Skies exhibition will be on display from 16th to 24th October inclusive.
Peripheral by Faye Boland

Writing workshops, musical performances and the always popular open mike session to close the festival on the Saturday, also feature among the programme of events. The full details for this year's festival have been posted online and also available to download in the form of a festival brochure.

The festival is open to the public and anyone interested in performing their work is asked to contact the organisers by text or SMS to Int+353+(0)86 1649756.

SiarScéal is an annual community festival based in Roscommon and Roscommon County Council Library Services have sponsored this event, along with The Manuscript Publisher and AIB. Photographers and poets from surrounding areas have generously allowed their work to be displayed and performed, including Ann Joyce, who has been a friend of SiarScéal since its inception.
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Tuesday, September 18, 2018

Book Launch: Peripheral by Faye Boland

SiarScéal Festival logo
SiarScéal Festival 2018
19-20 October, Roscommon Town

literary festival inspired by the culture and heritage of County Roscommon, in the heart of Ireland

Book Launch: Peripheral by Faye Boland
- Saturday, 22 September at Tralee Library starting 2.30pm -
Peripheral by Faye Boland is the author's debut collection of poems, to be formally launched at Tralee Library in Co. Kerry on Saturday, 22 September, starting 2.30pm.

Peripheral by Faye Boland
Faye Boland's poetry has been described as "a happy combination of musical lyricism and intellectual subtlety" by well-known Irish poet and novelist, Brendan Kennelly.

The poem from which this collection takes its title was Overall Winner at the 2017 Hanna Greally International Literary Awards, organised as part of the annual SiarScéal Festival in Co. Roscommon. It is also from this that the present volume results, as the prize, on this occasion, was for the winner to have his or her book published professionally by The Manuscript Publisher, an Irish-based publishing services provider.

In her citation of Boland's winning entry, the adjudicator at the awards, Mary Melvin Geoghegan, drew attention to the author's "economy and freshness of language", which she describes as "riveting – words forming as scaffold to arrest the eye and ear":
My roof is the sky,
the wind my walls.

Every night it blows
the same words:

Homeless.
Homeless.

Poet, Eileen Sheehan describes Boland's poetry ("recounted from an eclectic range of perspectives") as charting "a restless search for home, for purpose in an era when people feel increasingly disconnected from their own sense of worth."

So, where does one find that sense of self-worth? Our ability to connect is one place to start looking, or so this collection of poems might appear to suggest: the ability to receive and to acknowledge human distress signals, rather than trying to shut them out. Also, from the pleasure to be found in the mundane, reminding us that we are all somehow connected, no matter how dispersed and disparate our lives become.

Peripheral by Faye Boland is published by The Manuscript Publisher. It is on sale now and available to buy online, as well as from other outlets. RRP €12 plus P&P.

The book will be formally launched at Tralee Library, Co. Kerry on Saturday, 22 September, starting 2.30pm.

Book launch invitation – Peripheral by Faye Boland

Faye Boland will be providing a special writers workshop and reading from her work at this year's SiarScéal Festival. The full programme of events is available online, from this website and can also be downloaded.

She will also be performing her work and giving readings at the following public events and venues during autumn 2018:
  • Irish Writers Centre, Parnell Square, Dublin 1 – Thursday, 27 September @ 6.30pm
  • Carnegie Arts Centre, Kenmare – Friday, 28 September @ 8pm
  • Kinsale Literary Festival – Sunday, 7 October @ 3pm
  • Limerick Writers Centre, The Poetry Circle, Nelly's Cafe, Nicholas Street, Limerick – Thursday, 18 October @ 7.30pm
  • SiarScéal Festival, Roscommon Library, Abbey Street, Roscommon Town – Saturday, 20 October @ 12pm
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