Thu, 26 November 2009 James Harpur is a poet with four collections of poetry published by Anvil Press. He has won a number of awards, including the 2009 Michael Hartnett Award and the British National Poetry Competition. He was born to an Irish father and a British mother and now lives near Clonakilty in Co. Cork. He studied Classics and English at university then taught English on the island of Crete. Many of the poems of his first collection, A Vision of Comets, published by Anvil Press, take their inspiration from his time on Crete and from the Aegean area. Info: Dominic Taylor 087 2996409 or Barney Sheehan 086 8657494 Comments[0] |
Thu, 19 November 2009 Patricia Byrne is a Limerick writer and a regular reader at White House Poetry sessions. She writes poetry, fiction and nonfiction and is a graduate of the MA (Writing) programme form NUI Galway. Her poetry has been widely published in journals and anthologies and she won the Dromineer Poetry Prize (2007). Unstable Time, from Lapwing Press, is her first poetry collection. Patricia’s short fiction is included in the collection Town of Fiction (2009) from the Atlantis Collective of writers. She is currently writing a nonfiction book, The Friar & the Felon, about the Valley House atrocity in Achill in 1894. Info:Dominic Taylor 087 2996409 Comments[0] |
Fri, 13 November 2009 Nessa O’Mahony was born in Dublin and lives in Rathfarnham where she works as a freelance teacher and writer. Her poetry has appeared in a number of Irish, UK, and North American periodicals and has been translated into several European languages. She won the National Women’s Poetry Competition in 1997 and was shortlisted for the Patrick Kavanagh Prize and Hennessy Literature Awards. She was awarded an Arts Council of Ireland literature bursary in 2004, a Simba Gill Fellowship in 2005 and an artists’ bursary from South Dublin County Council in 2007. She has published three books: Bar Talk (Italics Press, Dublin 1999), Trapping a Ghost (bluechrome, Bristol, 2005) and In Sight of Home (Salmon Poetry, 2005). She is assistant editor of UK literary journal, Orbis.
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Thu, 5 November 2009 Maurice Scully was born in Dublin in 1952. Active through the 70s & 80s as editor & organizor of talks, readings & performances which introduced poets from avant-garde backgrounds to an Irish audience. For 25 years he was engaged on a single project entitled Things That Happen, a work in 8 books, 3 chapbooks, currently available in a 4-vol set as: 5 Freedoms of Movement, Livelihood, Sonata & Tig. Dedalus Press recently published a selection of his work: Doing the Same in English. A new book, Humming, is due from Shearsman Books soon, and a further book, Several Dances, is in the pipeline for 2010. Scully has read & published abroad a lot where his work is perhaps better known than here at home. Comments[0] |
Thu, 10 September 2009 Keith Armstrong was born in Heaton, Newcastle upon Tyne, where he has worked as a community development worker, poet, librarian and publisher. He now resides in the seaside town of Whitley Bay, is coordinator of the Northern Voices creative writing and community publishing project which specialises in recording the experiences of people in the North East of England. Keith often works and travels with folk-musicians from North East England, and he has written the lyrics for an album, Bleeding Sketches, by folk-rock band The Whisky Priests, with whom he has toured extensively in The Netherlands. He has also visited the European Parliament in Strasbourg to perform his poetry with musicians Pete Challoner and Ian Carr. He has recently inspired songs by Jez Lowe and by Joseph Porter of Blyth Power. Rense Sinkgraven (1965) grew up in the village of Smilde in the Netherlands. He made his debut with the volume 'Bombloesem' (Bomb blossom; Uitg. kleine Uil, 2005). He was the city poet of Groningen, Newcastle's twin city, from 2007 until January 2009 and has visited Newcastle twice to perform his poems. His work has been published in many literary magazines and anthologies. Besides being a poet, he is also the lead singer in a band, 'Rense and his Scrambled Eggs'. They brought out a single and accompanying video entitled 'Eier back' (Bake Eggs), a Dadaist punk song. His new volume of poetry appeared in January 2009: 'Sloop de stad met tedere woorden' (Demolish the Town with Tender Words; Uitg. kleine Uil). ------------------------------------------ Info: Dominic Taylor 087 2996409 or Barney Sheehan 086 8657494 Bloghttp//:whitehousepoets.blogspot.com Comments[2] |
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Fri, 28 August 2009 Martina Evans (née Cotter) is a poet and novelist. She grew up in County Cork in a country pub, shop and petrol station. After studying sciences for two years at University College Cork, she studied for a radiography degree at St Vincent’s Hospital Dublin and worked for fifteen years as a radiographer, moving to London in 1988, where she also completed a degree in English and Philosophy at the Open University. Martina began writing in 1990 and has published three books of poetry and three novels. Her first novel, Midnight Feast, won a Betty Trask Award in 1995 and her third novel, No Drinking No Dancing No Doctors (Bloomsbury, 2000), won an Arts Council England Award in 1999. Her fourth poetry collection, Facing the Public, is due to be published by Anvil Press in September 2009 and has won bursary awards from both the Irish Arts Council (An Chomhairle Eiraíon) and Arts Council England. Her poetry has appeared in many magazines and newspapers both in the UK as well as Ireland and the US. She is a popular performer of her work and has done many readings in Ireland and the UK. She has frequently spoken and performed on BBC radio as well as on Irish radio. Martina has judged the London Arts Board Awards, the London Metropolitan Creative Writing Competition for two years as well as the Listowel Irish Post Short Story Competition for three consecutive years. She has written for The Irish Post, The Irish Times and The Guardian and she has been children's books reviewer for the Irish Post since 2000. She has been Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Queen Mary, University of London from 2003-2007. She has also designed and directed a creative writing summer school at London Metropolitan University and run workshops at various literary festivals and the National Film School. She has taught at the University of East London and Centreprise Literature Development Project. Currently, she teaches creative writing at the City Literary Institute and recently she directed the Advanced Poetry Workshop at Listowel Writer’s Week. Info: Dominic Taylor 087 2996409 or Barney Sheehan 086 8657494 Blog http://whitehousepoets.blogspot.com Comments[2] |
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Fri, 14 August 2009 Mark Whelan is a Limerick born poet. His work has been published in journals both at home and abroad, some of which has been translated into French Spanish and Farsi. He has read at a number of international poetry festivals including Murcia International Poetry Festival in Spain and Pulse: Brighton International Poetry Festival in the UK. He has published two books of poems Scarecrow Diptych (Anam Press 2003), which is illustrated by artist John Shinnors with an introduction by poet Jo Slade and Always Pushing The Pull Door (Revival Press 2008), a collaboration with artist Thomas Delohery. He is a co-founder and on-going committee member of Cuisle: Limerick City International Poetry Festival.
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Thu, 30 July 2009 Billy Mills was born in Dublin in 1954. He lives in Limerick, where he works for a leading scientific publisher. He is the founder and co-editor (with Catherine Walsh) of hardPressed Poetry and the Journal. He has read his work widely at festivals and universities internationally. His books include Genesis and Home (hardPressed Poetry, 1985), Triple Helix (hardPressed Poetry 1987), Letters From Info: Dominic Taylor 087 2996409 or Barney Sheehan 086 8657494 Blog http//:whitehousepoets.blogspot.com Comments[2] |
Thu, 23 July 2009 Gerard Hanberry’s third collection of poetry At Grattan Road (Salmon Poetry) was published recently, following Rough Night (2002) and Something Like Lovers (2005), both from Stonebridge Publications, Wales. Other publications are An Introduction to Poetry handbook and a biography of the Wilde family, More Lives Than One, which was shortlisted for the Kingston University Press Non-Fiction Prize. His work has been widely published. ‘Poetry on the Dart’ (Dublin’s version of ‘Poems on the Underground’) featured a poem during the summer of 2007. In 2004 he was awarded the Brendan Kennelly/ Sunday Tribune Poetry Prize. Gerard holds an MA in Writing from the National University of Ireland, Galway where he teaches a creative writing seminar to undergraduates and delivers the poetry module on the Evening BA Degree course. He also teaches English at his own ‘alma mater’, St Enda’s College, Salthill. Gerard is a member of the advisory panel to the Cúirt International Festival of Literature. He lives with his wife Kerry in their home on the edge of Galway Bay where they raised their family of four, three sons, Jamie, Daniel and Greg and their daughter Jane. Info: Dominic Taylor 087 2996409 or Barney Sheehan 086 8657494 Blog http//:whitehousepoets.blogspot.com Comments[4] |
Sat, 18 July 2009 John Liddy is from Limerick and now lives in Spain. His poetry collections include Boundaries (1974), The Angling Cot (1991), Song of the Empty Cage (1997), Wine and Hope (1999), Cast-A-Net (2003) & The Well: New and Selected Poems (2007). La Barca de la Arena (a translation by Francisco Rivero in Spanish of The Angling Cot) & Poisionous Pleasure (a tanslation by John Liddy from Tosigo Ardento by José Maria Álvarez) were published recently. His work has been widely praised by critics such as Desmond O’Grady and Patrick Galvin. He lives in Madrid.
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Thu, 9 July 2009 CIARAN O'DRISCOLL was born in Callan, Co Kilkenny, in 1943, and presently lives in Limerick. He is a committee member of Cuisle, Limerick City's International Poetry Festival, and a member of Aosdána. He has published eight books of poetry including Moving On, Still There: New and Selected Poems (Dedalus Press, 2001), and Surreal Man (Pighog, 1996). In 2001, Liverpool University Press published his childhood memoir, A Runner Among Falling Leaves. A new collection is forthcoming in October 2009 from Three Spires (Cork), and ‘Swirl’, a CD which features him reading a number of poems, with musical accompaniment, will be available in early July. Info: Dominic Taylor 087 2996409 or Barney Sheehan 086 8657494 Blog http//:whitehousepoets.blogspot.com Comments[1] |
Thu, 2 July 2009 Noel Monahan was born in Granard, Co Longford. His collections are Opposite Walls (Galway, Salmon Poetry, 1991); Snowfire (Salmon Poetry, 1995); Curse of the Birds (Cliffs of Moher, Co Clare, Salmon Publishing, 2001); and The Funeral Game (Salmon Publishing, 2004). Info: Dominic Taylor 087 2996409 or Barney Sheehan 086 8657494 Blog http//:whitehousepoets.blogspot.com Comments[2] |
Tue, 30 June 2009 Liam Ryan born in Tipperary 1955. Living in Laois since 1983 where he runs an architectural practice. Poems and reviews have been published in Irish Times, Poetry Ireland etc over a number of years. "Touching Stones" is his debut collection from Doghouse. Comments[2] |
Thu, 18 June 2009 Catherine Walsh was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1964. Having lived in Barcelona and in Eastbourne, England, she is now back in Ireland, living in Limerick. She has published and read and her work is taught at Third Level widely in Ireland, the U.K. and the U.S. She co-edits hardPressed Poetry and the Journal with Billy Mills. Her books include Macula (Red Wheelbarrow Press, Dublin: 1986); The Ca Pater Pillar Thing and More Besides (hardPressed Poetry, Dublin, 1986), Making Tents (hardPressed Poetry, Dublin, 1987), Short Stories (North & South, Twickenham and Wakefield, 1989), Pitch (Pig Press, Durham, 1994), Idir Eatortha & Making Tents (Invisible Books, London, 1996); City West (Shearsman, Exeter, 2005) and from Optic Verve (Longhouse, Vermont 2006). Her work is included in No Soy Tu Musa (Ediciones Torremozas, Madrid, 2008), a bilingual Spanish/English anthology of Irish women poets. Her next book, Optic Verve: A Commentary, is forthcoming from Shearsman. Info: Dominic Taylor 087 2996409 or Barney Sheehan 086 8657494 Blog http//:whitehousepoets.blogspot.com Comments[2] |
Thu, 11 June 2009 John Menaghans first book of poems,"All the Money in the World," appeared in 1999 from Salmon Poetry. His second book, "She Alone," a book-length sequence tracing an imaginary woman's journey from birth to death and beyond appeared, also from Salmon, in April 2006. His third book What Vanishes (Salmon Poetry) has just been published. He has won awards for his poetry, including an Academy of American Poets Prize. In addition, he has translated poems by Baudelaire,Mallarmé, Verlaine, Rimbaud, and Valéry and published a number of these translations.He has read his work all across across the U.S.from New York to Honolulu as well as in Ireland and Hungary. He is now a full professor at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles and both founder and Director of both an Irish Studies and a Summer in Ireland program there. Comments[2] |
Thu, 4 June 2009 White House Poetry Revival Wed 3rd June 2009 9.00pm This weeks guest poet is Tim Daly.
A callow wild-eyed youth of 60 summers, Tim Daly lives on a forty-odd acre West Cork headland purchased with Songwriting income he neglected to spend on cocaine. He has worked for luminaries as diverse as Hugh Masekela, Henry Mancini, Feargal Sharkey & Dave Stewart, and was the lyrical consultant on Pink Floyd’s “Momentary Lapse” album, which consisted mostly of six months of bullying Dave Gilmour into remembering he was a genius. Tim believes the notion that minds create ideas is exactly 180% from the truth. His hobbies are listed in Who’s Who as ‘indoor hang-gliding and competitive sex.’ He only discovered the joys of writing fiction around three years ago and is currently working on his first major storyline – a Kafkaesque quantum comedy called “Vince Charming.” He has been reading his poetry for fun and profit since being discovered by the late great Adrian Mitchell in the late 60’s and is a strong advocate of the idea that treasures lie buried deepest within the ordinary language of extraordinary people.
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Mon, 1 June 2009 Celeste Augé has lived in Ireland since she was twelve years old, after her family moved over from Canada. In 2008, she was shortlisted for a Hennessy Literary Award. Her poetry has appeared in a variety of literary journals, and her first full collection of poetry, The Essential Guide to Flight, is published by Salmon Poetry. Comments[2] |
Thu, 21 May 2009 Bríd Ní Mhóráin, writer-in-residence in the Corca Dhuibhne Gaeltacht, since 2003, has published 5 books of poetry-Ceiliúradh Cré, Coiscéim (1992), Fé Bhrat Bhríde, An Sagart (2002), Síolta an Iomais, Cló Iar-Chonnachta (2006) and An Cosán Bán/The White Path, Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne (2008). The latter was her first bilingual book and was in collaboration with Barbara Hirst, a visual artist from Canada. An M.Litt study of the decline in Irish in the South Kerry Gaeltacht, Thiar sa Mhainistir atá an Ghaolainn Bhreá, was published by An Sagart in 1997. She edited Idir Chruach is Chuan-Cúirt Phiarais (2007), new writing from Corca Dhuibhne and was Irish language editor of The Best of Irish Poetry/Rogha Dánta 2008 (Munster Literature). Prizes include first in the Oireachtas, for poetry, 1998 and 1999; second prize in the Dún Laoire/ Rathdown, Poetry Festival, 1997 for Dán Gaeilge and first in 2005; shortlisted for Dán Gaeilge, Strokestown 2003 and third prize in The Brown Envelope Competition of the same year as well as an Oireachtas first prize for prose,1992. She has participated in numerous poetry festivals, such as Éigse na Brídeoige, An t-Oireachtas, Féile na Bealtaine, Franco-Irish Poetry Festival, The Merriman Summer School and Cúirt na bhFilí in Scotland and is anthologised in Cúm, The Kerry Anthology, The Field Day Book and The White Page/An Bhileog Bhán Irish Women Poets of the twentieth Century. Comments[2] |
Fri, 15 May 2009 Jean O'Brien is a Dubliner now living in the Irish Midlands. Her work is widely published in magazines and journals. She has published two other collections, The Shadow Keeper, (Salmon 1997) and Dangerous Dresses (Bradshaw Books, 2005) Her latest book, Lovely Legs is recently published by Salmon. She holds an M.Phil. in Creative Writing from Trinity College, Dublin. She facilitates creative writing classes for a wide variety or organizations from the Irish Writers' Centre, Dublin City Council and other County Councils to Mountjoy, Limerick and the Midlands Prisons. She was Writer-in-Residence for Co. Laois in 2005. She was the 2008 recipient of the Fish International Poetry Award. Also in 2008 she was commissioned to write a poem for the Oxfam Calendar. Her poetry was described by Fiona Sampson writing in the Irish Times as "...effortless writing, graceful and exact as any pirouette in its insight". Comments[2] |
Thu, 7 May 2009 Frances Cotter has been writing for eight years and is working towards her first collection of poetry. She lives in Kilkenny with her family. She teaches English. Her poems have been published in various magazines including THE SHOp, Kilkenny Broadsheets and Listowel Writers. She has received The Annie Deeney Memorial Prize and has read her work on RTE Radio, notably, Sunday Miscellany , The Arts Show and Playback. Comments[2] |
Fri, 24 April 2009 Seán Lysaght was born in 1957 and grew up in Thomondgate, Limerick and Comments[2] |
Thu, 16 April 2009 Burt Kimmelman has published five collections of poetry – Musaics (Sputyen Duyvil Press, 1992), First Life (Jensen/Daniels Publishing, 2000), The Pond at Cape May Point (Marsh Hawk Press, 2002), a collaboration with the painter Fred Caruso, Somehow (Marsh Hawk Press, 2005), and There Are Words (Dos Madres Press, 2007); his volume of poems titled As If Free is forthcoming in 2009 (from Talisman House, Publishers). For over a decade he was Senior Editor of Poetry New York: A Journal of Poetry and Translation. He is a professor of English at New Jersey Institute of Technology and the author of two book-length literary studies: The "Winter Mind": William Bronk and American Letters (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1998); and, The Poetics of Authorship in the Later Middle Ages: The Emergence of the Modern Literary Persona (Peter Lang Publishing, 1996; paperback 1999). He also edited The Facts on File Companion to 20th-Century American Poetry (Facts on File, 2005) and co- edited The Facts on File Companion to American Poetry (2007).
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Thu, 9 April 2009  White House Poetry Revival
Wed 8th April 2009 9.00pm
This weeks guest poet is Harriett O'Carroll.
Harriet O'Carroll was a physiotherapist before she started writing short stories in 1979. She was published in the Beacon and Virago Press, won awards, and appeared in periodicals, anthologies and The Irish Times. She has been translated into French. She has also written radio plays , has had ten plays on RTE Radio 1 and five plays on BBC Radio 4. A favourite of these, MINUET, was RTE’s selected entry for the Italia Prize and told the story of Jane Austen’s romance with a law student from Limerick. She also wrote a screenplay version of this story which was optioned by Working Title. She wrote episodes for GLENROE and FAIR CITY and was an associate storyliner for GLENROE. She also wrote an episode of MONARCH OF THE GLEN. She wrote a six hour adaptation of Stella Tillyard’s ARISTOCRATS for BBC 1, broadcast in 1999. It continues to be broadcast world wide and has just been issued in DVD. . She has screenplays in various stages of development. She wrote the original treatment for THE CLINIC for Parallel Films Ltd., and RTE.
For theatre she wrote BOTTLE OF SMOKE, produced by Island Theatre Company and THE TRICKSTER, an adaptation of Moliere’s LES FOURBERIES DE SCAPIN, also produced by Island Theatre Company.
She has been writing poetry intermittently over the years.
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