Lowlights for Lowlifes
Welcomes to 'Lowlights for Lowlifes', the website of poet, Colin Dardis.
Originally from Omagh, Country Tyrone, Colin Dardis now resides in Belfast, where he currently co-hosts a monthly open mic poetry night, 'Make Yourself Heard'.
Previously, Colin has been a co-ordinator of Poetic Splendour, a monthly performance poetry night in Belfast, and has worked as a Poet In Motion for the New Belfast Community Arts Initiative. He has also performed with the Belfast Poets. Notable readings include the Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival, Between The Lines and the Castlereagh Verbal Arts Festival.
He is also the editor of a small poetry magazine, called 'Speech Therapy', which launched in April 2006. It focuses on poetry from the North of Ireland, and seeks to promote the best new writing from poets of all ages, experience, and backgrounds.
Currently, Colin is working on new material and working towards a first collection. He is also expanding into other areas, such as flash fiction, theatre and music.
Colin is a poet who displays hunger for understanding of himself and the world around him. His poetry and performances display an ever present sense of hope through times of love, sadness, death and joy, while his performances sparkle with humour, honesty, modesty, and a touch of the absurd.
His poem 'Perhaps' won the Edit Red 2006 Writer's Choice Award for Poetry.
Latest News
The next Make Yourself Heard open mic poetry nights will be on Friday 9th October and Friday 13th November. Go to our Facebook page for more details.
Submissions are currently open for issue five of Speech Therapy. Go to our Myspace page for more details and information on how to submit.
New poems have been published in The Ranfurly Review (just download the pdf file to view Issue 8) and Black-Listed Magazine.
Submissions are currently open for issue five of Speech Therapy. Go to our Myspace page for more details and information on how to submit.
New poems have been published in The Ranfurly Review (just download the pdf file to view Issue 8) and Black-Listed Magazine.