The Clonakilty Organic Arts Festival

19th-21st June

A Mid-Summer Festival of The Arts
Full Programme See clonarts.weebly.com

The pSoken Wrod featuring:

Friday Evening, 5.00-7.00 p.m. De Barra's, Folk Club.

MC....Afric McGlinchey

Moze Jacobs is a writer who uses sound as a backdrop for her poems. It's called sound poetry. Fascinating … different. She writes about space, anatomical landscapes, the divided mind, Pandora's Box, and strangers in a pub. Like a movie score, the soundscapes add an extra dimension. They are created by multimedia artist Karel von Kleist.

Brendan Cormack is a Dublin Poet living in Rosscarbery. He has published two collections of poetry, 'Selling Heaven', and 'Phuckle - Irish Auf English'. He was shortlisted for the Bridport Prize in 2009 and has read at the Fermoy International Poetry Festival, in 2013 and 2014, and at the Cork Spring Poetry Festival in 2015. He is a regular performer at the pSoken Word in Debarra's Folk Club on the first Tuesday of every month.

Colm Scully is a Cork poet. He has had work published in various magazines including, Cyphers, Abridged, Burning Bush Two, The Poetry Bus, The Stony Thursday Book, The Linnets Wings, Boyne Berries, Wordlegs.  He won The Cúirt New Writing Poetry Prize 2014, and was selected for the Poetry Ireland Introductory Series 2014.  One of his poems was commended in the Gregory O’Donoghue Prize 2014.  He collaborates on Poetry Films, one of which was shortlisted in The Indie Cork film Festival and shown at Cyclops International Poetry film Festival in Kiev. His debut collection "What News, Centurions?" was published by New Binary Press in December 2014. Available at newbinarypress.com and amazon.com

Francisco Rebollo, a writer and pilot originally from Mexico now residing in west Cork. He has had articles published in the 'west cork people' and is a regular at Clonakilty's prestigious 'pSoken Wrod'. Francisco is putting the finishing touches on his first novel: 'ORB' -An Aeronautical Love Story from an Altered World , due out soon. 

Anja Bakker

Nick Smith is a writer and sometimes poet. Nick was long-listed in Fish Flash Fiction, 2012, won The John Murray Listowel Writer's Week Flash Fiction 2013, won "From the Well", Cork Arts Office Short Story Competition, 2014. He is the founder member of The pSoken Wrod, the forum for local poets, authors and songwriters. Nick is currently working on two novels and a boat.

Hugh Bradley

Claire Marie Barton

Cormac Lally, an Offaly poet, recently moved to Skibbereen. He won the Leinster heat of the All Ireland Poetry Slam and came Second in the All Ireland Final 2014 . He is a member of the Tullamore Rhymers Club and organiser of the Scene Of The Rhyme, a spoken word and poetry night that started in Lee's pub in Tullamore and has now grown legs and is a popping up in festivals such as Castlepalooza, Body and Soul, EP, Valentia Island and many others. He has self published two collections of poetry, Scribbles, Dribbles and Homegrown Nibbles and Too Busy Dancing to critical acclaim amongst aunties uncles and other close family.

Saturday Evening, 10.00 p.m. Emmet Hotel, Beer Garden.

MC...Brendan McCormack

James Waller

Afric McGlinchey

Michael Ray

Moze Jacobs

Brendan McCormac

Simon Lockwood

Colm Scully

Francisco Rebollo

Anja Bakker

Marcus Bateson

Claire Marie Barton