Galway-based literary magazine Ragaire will launch its third edition tomorrow, Friday, May 30, in The Porter Shed, on Market Street, at 6.30pm.
Edited by Cormac Culkeen, Aileen McCarthy and Lucy Bleeker, Ragaire champions emerging west of Ireland writers, and also carries other Irish and international voices.
The latest edition of Ragaire – the Old Irish title describes a raconteur who enjoys wandering at night – contains poetry, prose and thought-provoking essays.
Issue 3 features several Galwegian or Galway-based writers and poets: James Martyn Joyce, Kathryn Petruccelli, Mars Duignan, Fiona Hanley, Ciara Broderick, Matt Mooney, Jack Power and Pete Mullineaux. It includes new poetry from Lauren O’Donovan, winner of the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award, the Cúirt New Writing Prize, and the Southword Poetry Prize. Ragaire also supports new writers and includes a poem by Martina Madden.
Ragaire will be launched by acclaimed Galway poet and filmmaker Luke Morgan. Morgan’s third full-length collection, Blood Atlas, was recently published by Arlen House. Morgan was awarded this year’s Lawrence O’Shaughnessy Award for Poetry from the Center for Irish Studies, at University of St Thomas, in Minnesota. He joins Eavan Boland, Paula Meehan and Thomas McCarthy in receiving the award which is granted each year to a poet resident in Ireland.
