Grainne Toher was the featured reader at the "Boyne Writers' Open Mic Session" at the Knightsbridge Village Hall in Trim tonight. A native of Galway she read through a number of chapters from her novel "Comings and Goings" something she started to write while waiting for the signals to change while stuck on a train in Maynooth. A girl with a very pleasant reading voice, and style, the book deals with the relationships between a group of pals and as the title says their comings and goings. This would make very easy listening if available in audio form or on the radio and something to consider. There is a huge market out there for novels like this. Other readers on the night proved to be very interesting also, with Caroline Finn taking us to a corner of the wild and woolly west, and one that Huckleberry never made it to. Is there a connection here? Michael Farry read his poem that was published in the Shop Magazine and maybe he'd put up some info about it on the site. James Linnane read a poem about his stay in hospital, and I hadn't heard it before, but he has a talent for recalling detail and putting it into verse while Paddy Smith finished off proceedings by informing us that he did not do poetry and then did just that. Good poem too! And that was just some of them!
Photos: Grainne Toher with copy of book, also some of the
other readers.
2 comments:
well written blog piece!
Many thanks on that,Orla.
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