Hi There

three events coming up this month so far:

Chapters and Verse
Lunchtime Reading
1.15 on Wednesday 1st April
Chapters of Parnell St, Dublin 1
With Ross Hattaway and Bernie O’Reilly

Ross Hattaway is a New Zealand born Irish poet. Ross' first collection The Gentle Art of Rotting was published by Seven Towers in 2006. Ross' work has been published all over the world and he has taken part in readings all over the world. In 2008 he was the first Irish poet to be invited as a featured guest at the International Poetry Spring Festival in Lithuania. He also read at the Live Poet's Society Reading in Sydney in July 2008. He took part in Poetry Ireland's Introductory Series in 2001 and since then has taken part in many festivals throughout Ireland including Killarney Summerfest, Samhlaiocht Festivals, Temple Bar Diversions Festival, Greystones Festival as well as the Chapters and Verse Reading Series.



Bernie O’Reilly has read at the Poetry Ireland Introductions series, Poets Anon, Peanut Club and the Last Wednesday Series Reading and Open Mic. She has taken part in workshops with Tony Curtis, Jean O' Brien, Gerard Dawe, Jean Valentine, Jamie McKendrick and her work has been published in in Poetry Ireland Review and Poetry Now( England)


SHOPPING

Chapters and Verse Themed Reading
6.30 on Thursday 12th March,
Chapters of Parnell St, Dublin 1

Listen to Irish Writers read from work about Shopping!!

With:

Phantom 105.2 FM, and former Radio Caroline DJ, Steve Conway

Dublin poet, teacher and broadcaster Catherine Ann Cullen

New Zealand poet Ross Hattaway

Kildare novelist and short story writer Eileen Keane

Dublin poet Éamonn Lynskey

Wexford based poet, playwright and director Noel Ó Briain

Armagh born poet and essayist Barbara Smith



and lastly

Chapters and Verse
Lunchtime Reading

Celebrating
Steve Conway’s Radio Caroline Day!
with a reading at 1.15 on Wednesday 15th April
Chapters of Parnell St, Dublin 1
from

Shiprocked: Life on the Waves with Radio Caroline


by
Steve Conway
(Liberties Press, 2009)

Writer, journalist, and DJ Steve Conway joined off-shore radio pirate Radio Caroline at the tender age of 21 in 1985. During the following years of dodging authorities, risking life and limb in storms (including that hurricane) and going hungry at sea, he rose through the ranks from novice newsreader, to programme controller, and was one of the last crew to be removed from the ship by RAF helicopter in 1991. Shiprocked, Life on the Waves with Radio Caroline tells the story of those exciting and intense years in Steve’s life and in the life of Radio Caroline, which continues broadcasting to this day – although now from land. Steve too continues broadcasting from land, and is a DJ on Phantom 105.2FM

Hi,

Eamon Carr, Raven, Richie Buckley, Hugh Buckley, and Ulick O'Connor are among the big
names at this years Sean Dunne Festival in Waterford. Eamon and Ulick will be on the
panel on Friday 20th March, discussing emergence of sports writing - From the Pack Pages
to Hardback, and Eamon will read from his first publication The Origami Crow, Journey
into Japan, World Cup Summer 2002with Richie Buckley on Sax and Hugh Buckley on guitar at
the closing event on Saturday 21st. Eamon will be supported by San Francisco performance
poet and musician Raven, who will be backed by Prairie Dawg Conor Farrell playing blues
harp and Martin Clancy on guitar.

However, tickets for these events, and the other events of the festival are already
selling rapidly, so make sure to book now for yours. To do this contact The Central
Library, Lady Lane Waterford, 051 849975.

Greetings one and all and here we are putting out our monthly blog for Seven Towers. Hope you get a chance to drop by for some of our events! Best All at Seven Towers.

Chapters and Verse
Lunchtime Reading
1.15 on Wednesday 4th March
Chapters of Parnell St, Dublin 1
With Eamonn Lynskey and Anne Morgan

Éamonn Lynskey
has had poems published in many magazines. He was nominated for the Sunday Tribune/Hennessy Literary Award for New Irish Poetry in 2006 and one of his poems will feature on the 2009 OXFAM calendar. His first collection Dispatches and Recollections was published in 1998 and he is currently working on his second. As well as writing in English, Eamonn has also translated works of Italian poets Montale and Valeri and written in Italian – he holds, (among other qualifications!) a Diploma in Italian Lauguage and Culture from the Italian Institute, Dublin.

Anne Morgan
was born in London in 1975 and grew up in Dublin. She studied English at St. Patrick's College, Maynooth and has done readings in the Ballymun Axis Theatre and the Irish Writers Centre. She has had work published in 'Newsfour', 'Riposte' and 'Electric Acorn' and in Census, the First Seven Towers Anthology.
MACHINES and COMPUTERS

Chapters and Verse Themed Reading
6.30 on Thursday 12th March,
Chapters of Parnell St, Dublin 1

Listen to Irish Writers read from work about Machines and Computers!


With:

Phantom 105.2 FM, and former Radio Caroline DJ, Steve Conway

Dublin Poet, playwright Patrick Chapman

New Zealand poet Ross Hattaway

Kildare novelist and short story writer Eileen Keane

Dublin poet Éamonn Lynskey

Wexford based poet, playwright and director Noel Ó Briain

Dublin poet, novelist, playwright and screenwriter Oran Ryan


Chapters and Verse
Lunchtime Reading
1.15 on Wednesday 18th March
Chapters of Parnell St, Dublin 1
With Eileen Casey and Eileen Keane

Eileen Keane’s first short story won the Cecil Day Lewis fiction prize in 2004and in 2007 her short story Tryst was one of 14 chosen through a competition on Seoige and O;Shea on RTE for an anthology called Do the Write Thing (Poolbeg Press). Also in 2007 she won first prize in the humorous essay competition at Listowel. In 2008, her story The Cave was published in Census, the First Seven Towers Anthology. She is a visual artist and a founder member of the Leinster Printmaking Studio at Clane, Co Kildare and is a member of the Clane Writer’s Group and has just completed her first novel.


Originally from the Midlands, Eileen Casey has lived in Tallaght, South Dublin, since the late 1970s. Her poetry has been published in outlets such as Poetry Ireland, Books Ireland, The Stinging Fly, The Sunday Tribune and County Lines: A Portrait of Life in South Dublin County. Her numerous awards include the Scottish International Poetry Award, the Golden Pen and the Peace Poem Awards (Cork). In 2008, Drinking the Colour Blue, her debut collection of poetry was published by New Island.

€1 from every copy of Census, The First Seven Towers Anthology book sold as will be donated to AWARE