10/11/2024
Ó Bhéal’s 12th Winter Warmer (and 4th hybrid) poetry festival programme is online! Please share!
All the details are here: http://www.obheal.ie/winterwarmer
The 2024 Winter Warmer festival presents over 50 poets, most of whom will read/perform in-person at Nano Nagle Place, with some appearing virtually. All events are free at the venue or via our online Festival Stage and social media channels. In-person audience capacity is 100.
The festival includes a haiku workshop with Anton Floyd, a poetry-film workshop with Colm Scully, a launch of Southword issue 47 from the Munster Literature Centre, two music/poetry fusions from Séamus Barra Ó Súilleabháin, an experimental theatre performance from Strive Theatre and MacBóchra, an Open-Mic Showcase featuring fifteen poets from five Cork-based regular open-mic events, plus a Closed-Mic set, for ten poets from Ó Bhéal’s regular open-mic sessions during 2024.
Guests include Paula Meehan, Maw Shein Win, Pedro Serrano (w/ Anna Crowe), Maria Lado, Louis de Paor, Emma McKervey, Theo Dorgan, Jennifer Horgan, Lorenzo Mari, John Wedgwood Clarke, Sébastien Revon, Afric McGlinchey, Anton Floyd, Bernadette Gallagher and David Mcloghlin.
The shortlist and prize-giving for Ó Bhéal’s 12th International Poetry-Film Competition will be screened and simulcast, as will an additional, special selection of poetry-films made in Ireland.
We're grateful to our sponsors:
The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon Cork Arts Department Of English BZU Bahadur Sub Campus Layyah Foras na Gaeilge Poetry Ireland / Éigse Éireann Cork City Libraries Paradiso, Cork Arc Publications Long Valley Bar Forum Publications Dunnes Stores Irish Centre for Poetry Studies Irish Writers Centre The RTÉ Poetry Programme
Poster Image: Brendan Duffin
