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Monthly Hybrid Poetry Events: Live Streamed What: Poetry Films, Five Word Challenge, Guest Poets & Open-Mic When: 2nd Monday, Monthly @ 8.30pm (+ Poetry Films from 7pm) Where: Hayloft Bar (Long Valley Bar), Winthrop St, Cork (& online). Guest Poet & Open-Mic mp3s: Monday Event Archive Wordshops: Creative Writing at Ó Bhéal and Beyond … Ó Bhéal – a poem by Anamaría Crowe Serrano |
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Events are posted every 2 months. Click names for biographical details
UCC Creative Writing Showcase Seven Writers & Pam Campbell – 10th February
Emily Davis Fletcher & James Harpur – 10th March
Events are held in the Hayloft Bar, upstairs at the Long Valley, Winthrop st,as well as on Zoom and streamed via obheal.ie/live (more details via the links above)
Poetry Films start from 7.00pm (45mins – Not Streamed). Five Word challenge starts at 8.30pm.
Guest poets begin at around 9.20/9.30pm, Open-Mic session from 10.30pm.
The 13th Ó Bhéal Poetry Film Competition
will open for entries on 1st May 2025.
For full details visit our Competition Page.
3rd March 2025
We are delighted to announce the winners and shortlisted entries from Ó Bhéal’s 12th Five Words International Poetry Competition, judged by Lauren O’Donovan.
Our congratulations to first place winner Lucie Pereira for her poem Late Twenties Hangover, to second place winner Dean Gessie for his poem a force of nature and to third place winner Em Egan Reeve for their poem contents of the underwear drawer I share with my boyfriend.
The selection was made from 500 entries representing 22 countries. Winners and shortlisted entrants will read their poems at Ó Bhéal’s 18th anniversary (and ultimate) event, during the launch of Five Words Vol XVIII (both online and via zoom, on the 14th April 2025). as will a number of regular five word challenge contributors.
Congratulations to the winners and shortlisted poets, and thanks to all who entered!
| Late Twenties Hangover | by Lucie Pereira (Ireland/USA) 1st | |
| a force of nature | by Dean Gessie (Canada) 2nd | |
| contents of the underwear drawer I share with my boyfriend | by Em Egan Reeve (Ireland) 3rd | |
| Estrangement in a Meadow | by Karen Hodgson Pryce (Scotland) | |
| November Storm | by Giles Constable (England) | |
| Poem written on the 2nd anniversary | by Julia McNamara (Ireland) | |
| Always one for sorrow | by DW Evans (Jersey) | |
| There are lilies in the compost heap | by Sarah Salway (England) | |
| The First Star | by Lisa Rosinsky (USA) | |
| my memory and I | by Laura Theis (UK) | |
| More wren than heron | by Mary Anne Smith Sellen (England) | |
| Cooked Up | by Hilary Evans (Wales) |
The 12th Five Words International Competition is the final edition of the competition.
