Annette Skade

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Annette Skade March 30, 2018

Readings 2018/2019

  June 14th 2019 Radio: Rhyme and Reason Dublin South Radio 7pm May 2019 In and Out of Silence Poetry Reading DCU September, 2018 Orkney Poetry Reading  ‘A Place on the Edge?’ ASLE-UKI  Postgrad Conf August 5th, Sunday, 12 noon St Peter’s Church,Castletownbere,   Beara Arts Festival, June, Belfast Book Festival, Coast to Coast to […]

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Beara Arts Festival July 23rd – 5th August.

Annette Skade July 8, 2016

Beara Arts Festival July 23rd – 5th August.

This is a festival to look out for. Two weeks on the Beara Peninsula, combining Art, Photography, Writing and Music in and around Castletownbere. Annette is facilitating a poetry workshop at Castletownbere Library on Saturday  30th July  and is reading on Sunday 31st July. Beara Arts Festival Website is here.  

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Poetry Reading at Imbolc Festival, Skibbereen

Annette Skade December 30, 2013

Poetry Reading at Imbolc Festival, Skibbereen

Annette is pleased to be invited to read at the Imbolc / St Brigid’s Festival of poetry and music on Friday 31st January in Working Artist Studios, 71 North St, Skibbereen, Co. Cork. More info here

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Annette November 29, 2013

Ó Bhéal Poetry Reading – Cork

A great night was had by all when Annette Skade read at Cork’s popular weekly poetry event Ó Bhéal on January 27th 2014. Ó Bhéal (Irish for by word of mouth) creates an original platform for established and non-established poets alike, allowing the public access to contemporary poetry, and it draws an audience who appreciate […]

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Annette November 19, 2013

Thimblerig – Cork Launch

Annette Skade, winner of the 2012 Cork Literary Review Poetry Manuscript Competition, will launch her award-winning poetry collection Thimblerig at the Bradshaw Literary Festival, a two-day Gathering event in Cork this November. St Luke’s Church Cork will be the setting for the event which will celebrate and showcase some of the finest literary talent from […]

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Culture Night at Lismore Castle

Annette September 29, 2013

Culture Night at Lismore Castle

As part of Ireland’s annual Culture Night, Annette Skade will be reading, alongside Kathy D’Arcy at Lismore Castle on September 20th. The evening of free events will provide the official launch of the Graduate Art Exhibition will take place at St Carthage Hall. The launch will be followed by free drinks, poetry readings, and music […]

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Thimblerig Book Launch

Annette June 26, 2013

Thimblerig Book Launch

Annette Skade’s first poetry collection Thimblerig will be launched as part of the West Cork Literary Festival 2013 in Bantry. The collection recently won the Cork Literary Review Manuscript Competition, and – as part of the prize – has since been published by Cork’s Bradshaw Books. Acclaimed poet Ruth Padel will introduce the collection before […]

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Cork World Book Fest 2013

Annette April 1, 2013

Cork World Book Fest 2013

Later this month, Annette Skade will be taking part in the Cork World Book Fest 2013 to talk about the issues involved in getting published in the current climate. Skade will be joined by Kathy D’Arcy and Jennifer Matthews who are also published by Bradshaw Books, and by writer and editor Mark Jarman (Canada), for […]

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Annette Skade poet
 
Annette Skade is an award-winning poet, and teacher, living and writing on the Beara peninsula on Ireland's south-west coast.
 
In July 2013 she launched her inaugural poetry collection Thimblerig at the West Cork Literary Festival and is now working on poems for a second book.

Poems

You can read some of Annette Skade's poems here on the website.
Her first collection of poetry, Thimblerig, can be bought directly from the publisher at Bradshaw Books or from Waterstones. Buy online from Abebooks, and Blackwells, or in Blackwell's Oxford store.
 
Thimblerig is also available from Bantry Bookshop, Kenmare Bookshop, the Sarah Walker Gallery in Castletownbere, the Winding Stair Bookshop in Dublin, and Waterstones, Cork.

You can buy a copy of Thimblerig directly from the publishers Bradshaw Books or via Waterstones

Published on Poethead

Several of Annette's poems have recently been published over on Poethead, the wonderful poetry blog run by Christine Murray.

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