MICHAEL RAY performs the song "THE WINGBACK" for BalconyTV.
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PRESENTED BY JOANNE COLLINS
MICROPHONES BY RODE
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PRODUCED BY JOHN HOUGH & JOANNE COLLINS
Michael Ray is a poet and visual artist living in West Cork. In 2011 he won the RTE Poetry Competition and was shortlisted in the inaugural John Lennon Poetry Competition, judged by Carol Ann Duffy. His poems have appeared in a number of Irish and international journals, including The Moth, The Irish Independent, The Shop, Abridged, Cyphers, The Penny Dreadful, One, Numero Cinq, Southword, The Examiner, Ambit and Magma. In 2012 he was a winner in the Cúirt New Writing Poetry Prize and the Fish International poetry competition.
In 2013 he was shortlisted for the Hennessey award. In 2015 he won second place in the Poetry Ireland/Trocaire poetry competition. In 2016 he won the Poetry Ireland /Butler’s Café poetry competition. Michael’s visual art has been collected by the Craft and Design Council, the Department for Foreign Affairs and the National Museum of Ireland.
https://www.facebook.com/michael.ray.5815255
Links to poetry online:
http://spontaneity.org/issue-9/haunts/
http://www.munsterlit.ie/Southword/Issues/29/ray_michael.html
http://one.jacarpress.com/?s=michael+ray#Michael%20Ray
http://numerocinqmagazine.com/2016/08/07/uimhir-cuig-poems-glass-art-michael-ray/
CREDITS / SPONSORS
JO COLL PRODUCTIONS, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK MUSIC DEPARTMENT
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