Kerry Women Writers' Network member Victoria Kennefick has won the Saboteur Best Poetry Pamphlet award with her chapbook White Whale http://www.saboteurawards.org
Sabotage Reviews editor Claire Trevien said: "What makes the Saboteur Awards unique is not just the categories in which you can vote ...but that it is all completely decided by public vote, which makes it a real breath of fresh air compared to panel-judged awards."
The twenty poems in the collection are enfused with imagery of the sea that mutates into human form. In her opening poem the body of a beached whale becomes the body of the narrator’s mother:
http://www.munsterlit.ie/Bookstore%20Other%20Titles.html
Summer Tour If you would like to hear new work by KWWN members come along to Killarney library on Thursday next, 25th June from 6:30-8pm. Five members will perform their work and there will be an open mic session which is open to all writers.
The chapbook was joint winner of the Fool for Poetry Chapbook prize in 2014. Published by Southword Editions, the Poetry Chapbook can be purchased from the following website:"The weight of her past made flesh on her hips,
the scars of our arrivals barely healed after all this time,
my blind hands all over the body."
http://www.munsterlit.ie/Bookstore%20Other%20Titles.html
Summer Tour If you would like to hear new work by KWWN members come along to Killarney library on Thursday next, 25th June from 6:30-8pm. Five members will perform their work and there will be an open mic session which is open to all writers.
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