Launch of Render at Lavit Gallery

 All photos by Bana Assay, writer and photographer!

It was a privelege last week to launch my new poetry collection Render in the beautiful confines of Cork's Lavit Gallery. It was memorable evening full of good people aand good vibes and I am grateful to all who made it possible: to Brian of the Lavit Gallery for his hospitality, to Dónal O'Sullivan who framed the nightbeautifully on guitar, to Jessica Traynor and Eimear Ryan of Banshee Press and to Dr Adam Hanna of UCC who introduced the book with extarordinary panache! My thanks above all to Cork's literary and artitistc communities for coming out in such numbers to support new irish writing! It was a truly memorable one!