Martine Madden was born in Limerick, educated in Dublin and spent her
early married life working in the Middle East. From some of the
Armenian Diaspora there, she learned of the Armenian Genocide which took
place in the Ottoman Empire or modern-day Turkey, in 1915. A much later
discovery of the photographs of German officer, Armin Wegner, prompted
Martine to write about the Genocide and her novel, Anyush, was published
by Brandon in May 2014.
Michael Wilson’s has been writing and performing poetry for ten years
and has been published in various formats, from magazines and
anthologies, to collections of his own work and CDs. He is a graduate of
the Islington Mill Art Academy, a group of self-directed artists who
ran residencies in various locations including Glasgow, the Lake
District, and Berlin. He has just released a new CD of his poems called
All Life’s Settler’s Come at Dawn, and his performance at North West
Words is part of a month long Irish tour to launch the record. He has
also been asked, as previous winner of the Cheltenham Literature
Festival UK All Stars Slam to compete in their final slam this Autumn,
as a wildcard chosen from over a decade of the long running slam’s past
winners.
On the same night at 7pm is the prize award ceremony for the NWW 2014 Schools Poetry Competition.
And, don't forget that the NWW adult poetry competition is currently open for entries. The deadline is 14th November 2014, and the judge is Kate Newman from Summer Palace Press. For more details see here
