This autumn Butler Gallery are delighted to present our Spoken Word Series featuring an exciting line-up of spoken word performances. Join us at 6.45pm on Thursday 24th October at Butler Gallery for readings by Lani O’Hanlon, Mark Roper and Carmel Cummins.
Tickets are €10 and available for purchase on our website.
Entry ticket proceeds will support Butler Gallery, supporting living artists and all audiences.
Supported with funding from Call 2 of the Night Time Economy Diversification Grant Scheme.
Lani O’Hanlon is a writer and somatic movement therapist living in West Waterford. Her writing is published internationally and broadcast on RTE’s Sunday Miscellany. Winner of the Poetry Ireland Trocaire Award in 2022 and with director Fiona Aryan – The Bloomsday Award for Poetry Film in 2024, other prizes include: Dromineer, Bridport, Poetry on the Lake and shortlisted for the Hennessy Literary Award / Emerging Fiction. Her poetry collection Landscape of the Body (2023) is published by The Dedalus Press. Lani is a highly experienced facilitator/reader/performer with an MA in creative writing from Lancaster University, she works as a poet in palliative care with Waterford Healing Arts and facilitates creative writing and somatic movement retreats in the South East. She is the author of Dancing the Rainbow, Holistic Well-Being through Movement, Mercier Press.
Mark Roper’s most recent poetry collection, Beyond Stillness, came out in October 2022. Bindweed, (Dedalus Press, 2017), was shortlisted for The Irish Times Poetry Now Award. A Gather of Shadow (2012) was also shortlisted for that Award and won the Michael Hartnett Award in 2014. With photographer Paddy Dwan, he has published The River Book, The Backstrand, Comeragh and Sea and Stone, books of image and text about the natural history of County Waterford. A book of short poems, From The Japanese Gardens, with images by the photographer Margaret O’Brien-Moran, will be published in early 2025.
Carmel Cummins writes in Irish and English. She lives in Inistioge. Her poems in English have been published in national magazines and anthologies: Poetry Ireland, The Kilkenny Anthology, Inkbottle (New Writing from Kilkenny), Science meets Poetry 3, I live in Michael Hartnett, The Stony Thursday Book and in a chapbook, Woodstock Promenade. Her poems in Irish have been published in the magazine Feasta and in the Kilkenny Broadsheet and in Mórbhileog 2018. Her non-fiction prose has been published in Townlands, a habitation, Meitheal na bPáirceanna and broadcast on RTE’s Sunday Miscellany.
Is scríbhneoir dáththeangach í Carmel Cummins. Tá cónaí uirthi in Inis Tíog. Tá a cuid filíochta i nGaeilge foilsithe san irisleabhar Feasta, Mórbhileog 2018 agus Kilkenny Broadsheet. Le sin, tá ailt próis foilsithe aici san irisleabhar, Feasta agus i Meitheal na bPáirceanna. Bronnadh sparánacht Eanach Mhic Dheirg uirthi i 2018, urraithe ag Comhairle Chontae Chill Chainnigh.
is ábhar spéise ar leith di oidhreacht na Gaeilge i gCill Chainnigh agus a tionchar ar ár gcuid Béarla. Tá sí ina ball den ghrúpa scríbhneoireachta Loch Buí.
