White House Poetry Revival Podcast

James Harpur reading at the White House, Limerick, Ireland

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:42:00 GMT

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.

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Patricia Byrne reading at The White House, Limerick, Ireland

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:59:00 GMT

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. Patriciaâs 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.

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Nessa O'Mahony reading at the White House, Limerick, Ireland

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:55:00 GMT

Nessa OâMahony 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 Womenâs 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 artistsâ 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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Maurice Scully reading at the White House, Limerick, Ireland

Thu, 5 Nov 2009 19:05:00 GMT

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.

Keith Armstrong and Rense Sinkgraven reading athe the White House, Limerick, Ireland

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:39:00 GMT

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).

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Chris Agee reading at the White House, Limerick, Ireland

Thu, 3 Sep 2009 15:55:00 GMT

Chris Agee was born in 1956 in San Francisco and grew up in Massachusetts, New York and Rhode Island. He attended Harvard University and since 1979 has lived in Ireland.
He is the author of three books of poems, In the New Hampshire Woods (Dublin, The Dedalus Press, 1992), First Light (The Dedalus Press, 2003) and Next to Nothing (Cambridge, UK, Salt, 2009), as well as the editor of Scar on the Stone: Contemporary Poetry from Bosnia (Bloodaxe, 1998, Poetry Society Recommendation), Unfinished Ireland: Essays on Hubert Butler (Irish Pages, 2003) and The New North Contemporary Poetry from Northern Ireland (Wake Forest University Press, 2008).
He reviews regularly for The Irish Times and is the Editor of Irish Pages, a journal of contemporary writing based at The Linen Hall Library, Belfast.
He holds dual Irish and American citizenship, and spends part of each year at his house near Dubrovnik, in Croatia.

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Martina Evans reading at the White House, Limerick, Ireland

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:38:00 GMT

Martina Evans (nÃe 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 Vincentâs 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 EiraÃon) 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 Writerâs Week.

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Teri Murray reading at the White House, Limerick, Ireland

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 20:31:00 GMT

Mark Whelan reading at the White House, Limerick, Ireland

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 22:02:00 GMT

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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Billy Mills reading at the White House, Limerick, Ireland

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 19:41:00 GMT

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 Barcelona (Dedalus 1990), Properties Of Stone (Writers Forum, London 1996), 5 Easy Pieces (Shearsman, Plymouth, 1997), Horace: 5 Traductions (Form Books, London, 1997), A Small Book of Songs (Wild Honey, Dublin 1999), What is a Mountain? (hardPressed Poetry 2000) and Logical Fallacies (hardPressed Poetry 2004). His collected poems, Lares/Manes, is published by Shearsman in the summer of 2009.

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Gerard Hanberry reading at the White House, Limerick, Ireland

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 22:13:00 GMT

Gerard Hanberryâs 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.ââPoetry on the Dartâ (Dublinâs version of âPoems on the Undergroundâ) 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 âalma materâ, St Endaâs College, Salthill. Gerard is a member of the advisory panel to the CÃirt 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.â

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John Liddy reading at the White House, Limerick, Ireland

Sat, 18 Jul 2009 21:06:00 GMT

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 JosÃ Maria Ãlvarez) were published recently. His work has been widely praised by critics such as Desmond OâGrady and Patrick Galvin. He lives in Madrid.

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Ciaran O'Driscoll reading at the White House, Limerick, Ireland

Thu, 9 Jul 2009 18:40:00 GMT

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 AosdÃna.
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 âSwirlâ, a CD which features him reading a number of poems, with musical accompaniment, will be available in early July.

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Noel Monahan reading at the White House, Limerick

Thu, 2 Jul 2009 16:38:00 GMT

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).
In 2001 he won the SeaCat National Poetry Award, organised by Poetry Ireland. Also in 2001 he won the RTÃ P.J. O'Connor Award for his play Broken Cups. In 2002 he won the ASTI Achievements Award for his contribution to literature at home and abroad. Other awards include The Allingham Poetry Award and The Kilkenny Prize for Poetry.
He lives in Cavan.

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Liam Ryan reading at the White House Poetry Revival

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:29:00 GMT

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.

catherine Walsh reading at the White House Poetry Revival, Limerick, Ireland

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:32:00 GMT

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.

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John Menaghan reading at the White House, Limerick, Ireland

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 20:14:00 GMT

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,MallarmÃ, Verlaine, Rimbaud, and ValÃry 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.

Tim Daly reading at the White House, Limerick, Ireland

Thu, 4 Jun 2009 21:53:00 GMT

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 Floydâs âMomentary Lapseâ 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 Whoâs Who as âindoor hang-gliding and competitive sex.â He only discovered the joys of writing fiction around three years ago and is currently working on his first major storyline â a Kafkaesque quantum comedy called âVince Charming.â He has been reading his poetry for fun and profit since being discovered by the late great Adrian Mitchell in the late 60âs and is a strong advocate of the idea that treasures lie buried deepest within the ordinary language of extraordinary people.

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Celeste Auge reading at the White House, Limerick

Mon, 1 Jun 2009 21:05:00 GMT

Celeste AugÃ 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.

Brid Ni Mhorain reading at the White House, Limerick, Ireland

Thu, 21 May 2009 14:14:00 GMT

BrÃd NÃ MhÃrÃin, writer-in-residence in the Corca Dhuibhne Gaeltacht, since 2003, has published 5 books of poetry-CeiliÃradh CrÃ, CoiscÃim (1992), FÃ Bhrat BhrÃde, An Sagart (2002), SÃolta an Iomais, ClÃ Iar-Chonnachta (2006) and An CosÃn BÃn/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 atÃ an Ghaolainn BhreÃ, was published by An Sagart in 1997. She edited Idir Chruach is Chuan-CÃirt Phiarais (2007), new writing from Corca Dhuibhne and was Irish language editor of The Best of Irish Poetry/Rogha DÃnta 2008 (Munster Literature).

Prizes include first in the Oireachtas, for poetry, 1998 and 1999; second prize in the DÃn Laoire/ Rathdown, Poetry Festival, 1997 for DÃn Gaeilge and first in 2005; shortlisted for DÃn 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 Ãigse na BrÃdeoige, An t-Oireachtas, FÃile na Bealtaine, Franco-Irish Poetry Festival, The Merriman Summer School and CÃirt na bhFilÃ in Scotland and is anthologised in CÃm, The Kerry Anthology, The Field Day Book and The White Page/An Bhileog BhÃn Irish Women Poets of the twentieth Century.

Jean O'Brien reading at the White House, Limerick, Ireland

Fri, 15 May 2009 20:33:00 GMT

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".

Frances Cotter reading athe White House, Limerick, Ireland

Thu, 7 May 2009 20:02:00 GMT

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.

Sean Lysaght reading at the White House, Limerick, Ireland

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 13:04:00 GMT

SeÃn Lysaght was born in 1957 and grew up in Thomondgate, Limerick and
studied Arts at UCD. While still a student, he took part in the Castle
readings organised by Claude and Dorina Byrne in King John's Castle,
Limerick. His first poems were published by Jim Kemmy in the Limerick
Socialist. His first collection, Noah's Irish Ark (1989) was followed by
five books from Gallery Press, including Scarecrow (1998), The Mouth of
a River (2007) and translations from Goethe, Venetian Epigrams (2008).
He was awarded the Lawrence O' Shaughnessy Poetry Award in 2007. His
Selected Poems will appear next year. He now lives in Westport, Co.
Mayo.

Burt Kimmelman Reading at the White House 14th April 2009

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 21:18:00 GMT

Burt Kimmelman has published five collections of poetry â 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).

Harriett O Carroll reading at the White House, Limerick

Thu, 9 Apr 2009 18:45:00 GMT

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 RTEâs selected entry for the Italia Prize and told the story of Jane Austenâs 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 Tillyardâs 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 Moliereâs LES FOURBERIES DE SCAPIN, also produced by Island Theatre Company.

She has been writing poetry intermittently over the years.

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John Liddy reading at the White House, Limerick, Ireland

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 15:19:00 GMT

John Liddy was born in Youghal, Co. Cork but grew up in Limerick. He is the founding editor along with Jim Burke of The Stony Thursday Book (1975 -) and has edited bilingual issues with his brother Liam and Miguel Ortega. He is a teacher and librarian and lives in Madrid.

Johnâs publications are Boundaries (1974), The Angling Cot (1991), Song of the Empty Cage (1997), Wine and Hope (1999), Cast-A-Net (2003) and The Well: New and Selected Poems (2007). Forthcoming are La Barca de la Arena (a translation by Francisco Rivero in Spanish of The Angling Cot) and Poisonous Pleasure (a translation by John Liddy from Tosigo Ardento by JosÃ Maria Ãlvarez).

For me as a poet there are two questions I ask of any poem: Is it worth writing? If I havenât written it would I like to have written it? For many poems in this current collection the answer is a resounding Yes. - Patrick Galvin

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Council of Ireland, Foras na Gaeilge and Poetry Ireland.

Chuck Kruger reading at the White House, Limerick

Thu, 6 Mar 2008 22:35:00 GMT

This weeks guest poet is Chuck Kruger and the Limerick launch of 'Sourcing' his new collection of poems

Born 1938, Finger-lakes Area of New York State, USA. Festival director, teacher, journalist, poet, broadcaster, fiction writer. Educated at Hamilton College, Bread Loaf School of English and Washington U, all in America, Kruger worked for 26 years as a teacher, counsellor, administrator and lecturer in places as disparate as Philadelphia, St. Louis, and Switzerland. In 1986, he moved part-time to Clear Island, Co. Cork, and set up official residence in 1992. In 1994 he founded what would become an annual international storytelling festival. A member of the organization âartists without frontiersâ? and âThe Irish Writers' Union & Poetry Society of America,â? Kruger currently contributes to such publications as The Irish Examiner, The Marine Times and The Southern Star in Ireland, as well as many American, UK and Swedish magazines. He has broadcast his poetry over the radio, and is involved in countless festivals and judging panels both domestically and internationally. He also edits collections of poetry. He currently resides on his farm on Clear Island, Co Cork.

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White House Poetry Revival Podcast : Catherine_Ann_Cullen_14.MP3

whitehousepoets — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 17:19:00 GMT

Catherine Ann Cullenâs first collection of poetry, A Bone in My Throat, was published by Doghouse in July 2007. Catherine Ann was born in Drogheda, Co Louth. She is a graduate of the M.Phil in Creative Writing at Trinity College Dublin. Her work has been published in The Doghouse Book of Irish Ballads, two Sunday Miscellany collections, The Stinging Fly, College Green and The Sunday Tribune, and her poetry was used in the play, The Pandora Effect, by Gary Carter (London, 2003).She is a regular contributor to RTE Radio 1âs Sunday Miscellany and A Living Word, and has presented work at the Kilkenny Arts Festival, the Brendan Kennelly Festival, the Poetry Ireland Introductions series, the Between the Lines Festival, and Belfast Young at Arts. Her two childrenâs books, The Magical, Mystical, Marvelous Coat (2001) and Thirsty Baby (2003) have been published by Little, Brown in the US. The first won a gold award for Poetry and Folklore from the American Parents Association. She has also written two stories for the RTE series Fiction 15, and one for the collection Stories for Jamie (Blackwater Press, 2002). Her animation work includes a bawdy verse-script for Rowlandson Rides Again (Moving Still, 2006), an adult short on the 18^thC artist Thomas Rowlandson. She has made documentaries and a series about food for RTE Radio 1 as well as producing current affairs, arts and features. She lives with her partner Harry and daughter Stella Nora in Kimmage, Dublin 12.

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White House Poetry Revival Podcast : John_Liddy_07_22.MP3

whitehousepoets@eircom.net — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 21:42:00 GMT

Described by his good friend and fellow Limerick poet Desmond O Grady as someone who has lived âa full lifeâ and an excellent example to all students of literature who aspire to write John Liddy was born and educated in Ireland. Originally from the Rathbane area of Limerick he moved to Madrid 25 years ago where he works as a teacher.
Former editor of the literary review The Stony Thursday Book, with Jim Burke. He has six book of poetry to his credit, Boundaries (1974); The Angling Cot(1991);Song Of The Empty Cage (1997); Wine and Hope (2000); Cast-a-Net (2003) and The Well: New and selected Poems (2007).
Liddy's poetry has been described as having no boundaries. As profoundly Irish as Spanish he drinks from the deep well of tradition and history of both countries. His work is an example of the cultural mix we are compelled to live with for the coming century. John offers the heart of two countries, richly diverse, national in its sources, limitless and universal in its appeal.

Liddy is a loyal poet- loyal to the tradition of poetry. Michael Fanning
Most importantly, whether he is writing poems of recollection, social realism, politics, or nature, John Liddy has the ability to use language which hits the poetic âg spotâ. Patrick Galvin

The White House Poetry Revival has being going now for over four years. Every Wednesday the famous old world bar is transformed into a centre of culture as poets recite their latest work. Barney Sheehan and Dominic Taylor , the people behind the revival of poetry at the White House, continue to attract the best of Irish and International poetry to Limerick. The reading has provided an open, supportive venue for countless poets to perform their work, and has fostered a community of poetry. Over the last four years the reading has grown, evolved and matured. We are proud to have provided an open-mic for poets from all over Ireland, Europe and the world: from Buddy Wakefield to Greg Delanty to hundred of others you have never heard, but should have. The reading continues to grow and change and we would invite you to come down, to listen - and should the mood strike you - to speak.

The White House Poets would like to acknowledge the involvement of the Arts Council, Poetry Ireland, Foras na Gaeilge, Limerick City Council, http://www.limerick.com/ and the White House Bar for their continued support, all of whom helped make the White House one of the pre eminent venues for poetry in Ireland.
As usual the reading is preceded by an open mic session in which anyone who wishes to read is invited to do so. Complementary finger food is provided and proceeding commence at 9.00 pm.

White House Poetry Revival Podcast : Launch_Revival_4_14.MP3

whitehousepoets — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 20:21:05 GMT