White House Poetry Revival Wed 27th June 2007

White House Poetry Revival
Wed 27th June 2007 9:00pm

White House Poets in association with Foras na Gaeilge present
a bi-lingual evening of poetry with Rita Kelly.

Rita Kelly was Born 1953. Grew up on the plains of East Galway, close enough to
Ballinasloe. Has lived on the River Barrow between Athy and Carlow for many years.
A full-time poet and fiction writer in both Irish and English. She has published 4
collections of poetry and 1 collection of short stories. Her 'Kelly reads Bewick', won best book Award in Ireland for that year.
She has edited various literary journals and anthologies including Poetry Ireland Review. She has been widely anthologised during the last 20 years. Her work has earned various literary awards, including the Seán Ó Riordáin/Oireachtas Award; a Listowel Award; an Irish Times/Merriman Award.
She has been translated into German, Dutch, French and Italian. Her work was placed on courses in Yale University 1989, that took her to the US and she spent 6 years in New York City.
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White House Poets On Tour: Madrid June ' 07

The WhiteHousePoets and Revival Press took to the road this summer for the Spanish launch of John Liddy's, The Well: New and Selected Poems in Madrid. Poets Gerard Sheehy, Edward O Dwyer and Dominic Taylor hit the Spanish capitol for the launch at Booksellers where the Irish ambassador Peter Gunning performed the official launch.
Afterwards everyone retired to the James Joyce pub for a reception where host Matthew made everyone welcome, most of the Spanish capitols Limerick residents turned out for a night poetry, music and craic.
Limerick poetry has certainly made its mark on Madrid and the hope is to cement these links with further visits in the near future.

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White House Poetry Slide Show 20th June 2007

Revival TRIO Poets Slide Show Cork Reading

Revival TRIO Poets
Noel Harrington, Edward O Dwyer and Gerard Sheehy
are available for readings, festivals etc.
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White House Poetry Revival Wed 20th June 2007

White House Poetry Revival
Wed 20th June 2007 9:00pm

This weeks guest is Kildare poet Liam Aungier.

Liam Aungier has been published in the Irish Times, the Shop, Poetry Ireland Review and in numerous other literary magazines. A winner of the Cootehill and the South Tipperary Poetry Competitions, he twice came second in the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award. A native of Co. Kildare he now works in Dublin . His first book Apples in Winter was recently published by Tralee based publisher Doghouse. The collection contains poems with deft lyrical touches that bring with them a surprising sense of pleasure. His use of imagery is imaginative and there is an inherent promise of greater things to come..

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White House Poetry Slide Show 13th June 2007

White House Poetry Revival Wed 13th June 2007

White House Poetry Revival
Wed 13th June 2007 9:00pm

This weeks guest is US poet John Menaghan.

John Menaghan, born in New Jersey to Irish-American parents, has lived in Boston, Berkeley, Vancouver, Syracuse, London, Dublin, Belfast, Galway, Gortahork, and Dingle, & presently makes his home in Venice, CA. Winner of an Academy of American Poets Prize and other awards, he has published poems and articles in Irish, American, and Canadian journals and given readings in Ireland, Hungary, and the U.S. Menaghan teaches literature and creative writing at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, where he also serves as Director of both the Irish Studies and Summer in Ireland programs and runs the annual LMU Irish Cultural Festival. A review in the prestigious Hudson Review described his second book, "She Alone," as "one of the best books of 2006," containing "fifty-odd lyrics, each in a different form, each handled with unobtrusive panache," "poetry with a human center," "smart and affecting," "utterly original," and "a book in which style and substance harmonize," the reviewer concluded by calling Menaghan "the real thing."

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White House Poetry Revival Slide Show 6th June 2007

White House Poetry Revival Wed 6th June 2007

White House Poetry Revival
Wed 6th June 2007 9.00pm

Limerick launch of Cork poet Billy Ramsell's debut collection, Complicated Pleasures, at the White House.

Billy Ramsell was born in Cork in 1977 and educated at North Monastery and UCC, His poems have appeared widely in magazines and journals and he was shortlisted in 2005 for a Hennessy award. The poems in Complicated Pleasures exist on the border between the personal and the political, combining delicately lyrical meditations on love, art and memory with darker works that confront head-on the pressures and uncertainties of an urban globalised. Complicated Pleasures is a first collection of considerable daring and undeniable accomplishment.

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