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] |
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