The pSoken Wrod

 de Barra's, June 2nd 2015

Our guest speaker at the pSoken June was Ian Wild, composer, playwright, author, poet, musician, a man possessed of outrageous and talented imagination.  Ian presented his latest work, a short-story entitled "The Knot in Nelson's Telescope" in which he plays all characters of various genders and national extractions.

At his own admission the story excelled in well-researched rudeness, based on Nelson's affair with Emma Hamilton. Bawdy, imaginative, "off the wall" it carried all the hallmarks of Ian's Wild literary, crazy creativity, throwing ideas together, leading listeners down a path of apparent predictability only to besuspended in the land of enforced make-believe. Suspend your imaginations, ye who enter here.

Mr Wild pointed out that, some time ago, he thought that he had lost his "mojo", a complaint visited upon all writers at one time or another. His mojo is still mojoing, testimony that the "block" can be overcome. Well done and thanks, Ian for a great evening. Part of "The Knot in Nelson's Telescope" can be heard at:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgWWjkI7y9A

The Five Word Challenge was won by John O'Riordan (zeitgeist, banana, coyote and a couple of others) and a fine line-up at the open-mic included Cormac Lally, John O'Riordan, Trace Irwine,Moze Jacobs, Francisco Flycisco Reb, Nick Smith, Brendan McCormack, Michael Ray, Hugh Bradley, Rae NicFhionnlaigh and Claire Pollock, who also excelled as MC for the evening.Thanks Claire.

Listen to some excerpts of the evening....

 https://youtu.be/POUaHjbwLTQ Rae NicFhionnlaigh, Hugh Bradley and Claire Pollock

https://youtu.be/4xdlLp1l8ME John O'Riordan, Moze Jacobs

https://youtu.be/hstmS6189SM Francisco Rebollo, Nick Smith, Brendan McCormack

Thanks to Chris on sound, de Barra's for hospitality and the 5Wrod Pint, all who shared anything at all, and Cork County Arts Office.

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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

The pSoken Wrod & James Joyce

Join us outside Clonakilty Post Office

Tuesday June 16th 11.45 a.m.

Enjoy a leisurely stroll to De Barra's

For a Joycean Breakfast

Together with Excerpts from Ulysses

Readings from Ulysses will be scattered amongst traditional liver, kidneys, cheese.
Thanks to de Barra's and O'Neill's Butchers for sponsoring breakfast.

The pSoken Wrod....June, 2015

Lots On.......

June is only just on the ori zon, the longest day, et al, and already the month is blooming in literary activity with.....

June 2nd....Ian Wild....

....At The pSoken Wrod at de Barra's, Clonakilty, a little after 8.30 p.m.

Our guest speaker is very well known throughout West Cork...and far beyond...for his abilities as a writer, poet, composer, stage director - a man for all seasons.

His work includes numerous plays and short stories for RTE Radio One. He was workshop leader at the Munster Literature Centre and has taught creative writing at the Triskell Arts Centre, Kinsale College of Further Education and Tig Filí, Cork. He has published several works of short stories and poetry and staged musicals, not forgetting "Mrs Shakespeare". She was even taken to Stratford-on-Avon. The Bard may well have turned in his proverbial. Ian's work carries a flair of unique imagination - it is taken as given that the evening will be similarly creative and unpredictable.

There is no cover charge to the events but there is a passing copper pot for donations to keep The Wrod afloat. Follow on Facebook -  Psoken Wrod, Twitter -  @Psoken Wrod
e-mail: psokenwrod@gmail.com

June 16th....Bloomsday!...

Brendan McCormack has brought to the Wrod some great ideas, one of which, as an almost ex-Dub is to celebrate Bloomsday. This may be a first for Clonakilty, and in keeping with Leopold Bloom's stroll around Dublin, those who wish may join the celebration of one of Ireland's finest poets with a stroll around Clonakilty.

The ensemble shall assemble outside Clonakilty Post Office at 11.45 a.m. and at midday, wander down Pearse Street to de Barra's, (already in receipt of the James Joyce Pub Award for an authentic Irish pub) where, in the folk club, a Joycean Breakfast will be served, including port wine, blue cheese, liver and kidneys.

Several of our poets, including Hennessy award-winner Afric McGlinchey, poet Brendan McCormack and others will be reading extracts from Ulysses. Printed extracts from the famous work will be available to those who might feel inclined to read a little Joyce whilst breakfast and other refreshments are consumed. If you know nothing of Ulysses, this is the opportunity to listen to a little of the work in a relaxed and informal setting.

The pSoken Wrod is indebted to Ray Blackwell, de Barra's, and O'Neill's Butchers for sponsoring the breakfast ingredients! This does not, however guarantee that your understanding of Ulysses will be replenished.

June 18th -21st...Clonakilty Organic Arts Festival

Another first in Clonakilty, a three day event of artistic expression involving artwork, literature, music, song and dance. 

Members of the pSoken Wrod will present their work at two venues:

Friday 19th June, 5-7 p.m. de Barra's Folk Club.

Saturday 20th June, 10.00 p.m. onwards, Emmet Hotel Beer Garden. 

A list of the participants will be posted nearer the day.

Remember................pSread The Wrod...........

The pSoken Wrod....May, 2015...

...and it feels as though we have hit the ground running. The year is beginning to positively pulsate with enthusiasm from all quarters and May's guest speaker was of the same order... Danielle McLaughlin.

Danielle has also hit the ground running.  Over the past five years, her stories have appeared in various anthologies including The Bone Woman and other short stories, recently published by Cork County Library and Arts Service, the Fish and Bristol Short Story Prize Anthologies. She has won awards and competitions and will be published later in the year, also being interviewed in 2014 by the New Yorker. 

The Wrod is predominantly populated by poets, and it was a pleasant surprise to find the audience captivated by Danielle who arrived suitably armed with an amazing collection of flash fiction and short stories, both beautifully written and narrated, full of imagery that was very easy on the ear. She left the audience wanting for more at the end of each vignette, so much so that she was called to the stage on three occasions throughout the evening. Her interview with Moze Jacobs was informative and inspirational and is on You Tube at:

https://youtu.be/vSsvYaJWp-M

https://youtu.be/IVXgb8J5mDc and with Dave Jordan, Cormac Lally and Moze Jacob's at:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2O4N7L2xGI&feature=youtu.be

The open mic was suitably well-attended with Flycisco Reb, Nick Smith,Brendan McCormack, Anja Bakker, Eamon, Moze Jacobs, Michael Ray, Cormac Lally, a very convincing Frank "Bud" Jones, aka Francisco and Simon Lockwood.

Left, Cormac Lally

Below, Flycisco Reb, aka Francisco Rebollo aka Frank "Bud" Jones who can be seen, together with Eamon at:

https://youtu.be/linc7IYAczY

Left, Moze Jacobs.  See Cormac Lally, Dave Jordan and the Moze Jacobs Stand-up Interview at:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2O4N7L2xGI&feature=youtu.be

Congratulations to Mary Rose McCarthy and Silke O'Reilly, members of Clonakilty Writers' Group who have been short-listed for From The Well, Cork County Library and Arts' Office Short Story Competition. Well done, ladies.

The pSoken Wrod.....April, 2015..

April, and The Wrod featured in the Irish Times 'on-line' with a piece written by Brendan McCormack about his move to West Cork.  Link at:

http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/the-psoken-wrod-an-open-mic-night-in-clonakilty-that-is-a-hub-for-local-writers-1.2158683#.VRmFfnRrgZo.facebook

April 7th pSoken Wrod commenced two hours earlier with a poetry workshop, sponsored by pSoken, facilitated by Afric McGlinchey.

Afric demonstrated the art of discovering and unleashing the subconscious with a series of practical, hands-on exercises. Workshops, so invigorating.

Later that evening, the guest speaker was poet, Kathy D'Arcy whose quick-witted fire-power poetry was brilliant, not only in content but in presentation.

Kathy drew from her experience as a youth worker with an insightful piece which was basically a charge sheet.

Watch Kathy at:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSqxnTw3VLM













Pushing ahead with technology, more of the evening was uploaded to our You Tube account, see Kathy and others at:


Anton Floyd, Winner of the 5-Word - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjbP_kdtKeY
Francisco Rebollo - https://youtu.be/04tMbP9IVU4
Anja Bakker, Nick Smith, Brendan McCormack - https://youtu.be/6ZoYtPdNkxY

April was sorry to hear of the death of Gunter Grass, now walking in time to the beat of a different Tin Drum, leaving a little piece of immortality.