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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.

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.

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.

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 Josà 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

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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The White House Poets gratefully acknowledges the support of the Arts Council, Foras na Gaeilge and Poetry Ireland. 

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^th C 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.