Launch of Revival TRIO Series No.1- Slide Show

White House Songwriters Night

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White House Poetry Revival Wed 30th May 2007

White House Poetry Revival
Wed 30th May 2007 9.00pm

Launch of Revival 'Trio' Series.
Poets Noel Harrington, Edward O Dwyer and Gerard Sheehy will read from the collection.

Noel Harrington is from Tuamgraney in Co Clare. In his 20s he did the
customary living abroad thing (Copenhagen, Munich, New York etc) and has
washed more than his fair share of dishes. In his final year studying for
a BA at Maynooth, he won the University's top award for literature, the
Barbara Hayley Memorial Prize. He is a regular reader at the White House
Revival sessions and is currently 53% of the way through finishing his
first novel. (writing, not reading). He has no pets, but is thinking
about a fish.

Edward O Dwyer is 22 and from Limerick. He’s been writing seriously since June 2006, which incidentally is the time he began going to the White House in Limerick. He holds a first class honours degree in English and Media & Communications (U.L.) and in September begins a H.Dip in secondary school teaching (N.U.I Cork). He has been previousely published in Revival.

Gerard Sheehy was born in Limerick and has lived there for most of his life. He is a regular reader at the White House Poetry Revival nights. Previous work has been published in the Microphone On anthology and Revival.

For further information contact Barney Sheehan at 086 8657494 or Dominic Taylor at 087 2996409

Email whitehousepoets@eircom.net Website http://www.limerick.com/whitehousepoets/ Blog http://whitehousepoets.blogspot.com/
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White House Poetry Slide Show 23rd May 2007

All-Ireland Performance Poetry Slam Footage

As some of you may know the All-Ireland Performance Poetry Slam was held in McHugh's of Belfast on 11th May. The winner was the excellent Brendan Murphy from Galway and Gerard Mc Keown from belfast was runner-up. Ronan Deevy and Chris Collins from the White House Poets represented Munster in the heats. Footage is now on-line of all the poets performing and they're all worth checking out so follow the link bellow:

http://www.obheal.ie/blog/?page_id=18

Check it out!

White House Poetry Revival Wed 23rd May 2007

White House Poetry Revival
Wed 23rd May 2007 9:00pm

This weeks guest poet is UK poet Bruce Barnes.

Bruce Barnes is a Bradford based poet with a wide range of interests that includes sound poetry and performance poetry. He has published in various small press mags and anthologies and is an occasional winner/runner-up in poetry competitions with two collections of poetry published and a writers award from Arts Council England, Yorkshire:

For further information contact Barney Sheehan at 086 8657494 or Dominic Taylor at 087 2996409
Email whitehousepoets@eircom.net Website http://www.limerick.com/whitehousepoets/ Blog http://whitehousepoets.blogspot.com/
MySpace http://myspace/thewhitehousepoets
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New Publications From Revival Press

www.revivalpress.ie

White House Poetry Slide Show 16th May 2007

White House Poetry Revival Wed 16th May 2007

White House Poetry Revival
Wed 16th May 2007 9.00pm

This weeks guest poet is Ciaran O Driscoll.

CIARAN O'DRISCOLL was born in Callan in 1943, and presently lives in Limerick, where he lectures in the School of Art and Design, and is a committee member of Cuisle, Limerick City¹s International Poetry Festival.
He has published eight books of poetry including Moving On, Still There: New and Selected Poems (Dedalus Press, 2001) and more recently Surreal Man, a chapbook of 21 poems (Pighog, 2006), and Vecchie Donne di Magione, a dual language edition of poems in an Italian setting (Volumnia Editrice, 2006). In 2001, Liverpool University Press published his childhood memoir, A Runner Among Falling Leaves. He has won a number of awards for his work, including a Bursary in Literature from the Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon, and the Patrick and Katherine Kavanagh Fellowship in Poetry. He is a member of Aosdána.

For further information contact Barney Sheehan at 086 8657494 or Dominic Taylor at 087 2996409

Email whitehousepoets@eircom.net Website http://www.limerick.com/whitehousepoets/ Blog http://whitehousepoets.blogspot.com/
MySpace http://myspace/thewhitehousepoets
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New Publication from Revival Press

The Well: New and Selected Poems by John Liddy
With an introduction by Patrick Galvin and a preface by Desmond O Grady.
Revival Press (2007) ISBN 978-0-9554722-0-6 Price €15.00


This book marks the sixth venture into publishing for Limerick poet John Liddy. Previous collections were Boundaries (1974), The Angling Cot (1991), Song Of The Empty Cage (1997), Wine and Hope (1999) and Cast-A-Net (2003).

Described by his good friend and fellow Limerick poet Desmond O Grady as someone who has lived ‘a full life’ and an excellent example to all students of literature who aspire to write.

Born in Youghal, Co. Cork, Liddy grew up in the Rathbane area of Limerick and currently spends much of his time in Spain where he works as a librarian in Madrid. He is married to his wife Pilar and they have two sons.

Liddy feels that this new collection marks a mid point in his poetic life. He has taken this opportunity to make a selection from his previous five books and combine them with new poems to create a body of work that reflects his development as a poet over the past twenty years and also gives him new creative energy to move forward.

Another important and historic aspect of the new collection is that it is published by a Limerick press. Revival Press, the imprint of the White House Poets, has for some time being active in the publishing of a poetry journal called Revival, now they are moving into mainstream publishing by producing this first full collection.
To Purchase a copy direct from the publisher click here: http://www.revivalpress.ie/John_Liddy.html

White House Slide Show 9th May 2007

New Acoustic Songwriters Night at White House

Check out the new Acoustic Songwriters night at the White House every Tuesday at 8.30pm.

OPEN-MIC ALL WELCOME

More Info: www.myspace.com/threesongslimerick

Photo Caption: Tom McCarthy with Chris the organiser of the evening

White House Poetry Revival Wed 9th May 2007

White House Poetry Revival
Wed 9th May 2007 9:00pm


This weeks guest poet is Martin Burke.


Martin Burke was born in Limerick, Ireland and was active there in poetry circles in the mid 70's. He then moved to Belgium and poetry all but ceased. It is only in the past three years that it has 'returned' and since then Martin has published two collections of poems: The Other Life and The Weave That Binds Us, and a Play: Six Scene from a War. And more are forthcoming.

For further information contact Barney Sheehan at 086 8657494 or Dominic Taylor at 087 2996409

Email whitehousepoets@eircom.net Website http://www.limerick.com/whitehousepoets/ Blog http://whitehousepoets.blogspot.com/
MySpace http://myspace/thewhitehousepoets
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White House Poetry Slide Show Wed 4th May 2007