White House Poetry Revival Wed 9th Jan 2007

White House Poetry Revival
Wed 9th Jan 2008 9.00pm

This weeks guest poet is Barbara Smith.

Barbara's first collection, Kairos, was published by Doghouse Books in 2007.
Her poetry and criticism has been published widely in Ireland, the UK, the
US and beyond. Barbara graduated with a BA Hons Lit in 2007 and is currently
pursuing a MA in Creative Writing in Queen's University, Belfast. She lives
in county Louth, with her partner, six children, various other small mammals
and assorted musical instruments. You can read Barbara's Blog at
intendednot2b.blogspot.com and can also find her on Facebook and MySpace.
For Further Information contact:
Barney Sheehan at 086 8657494 or Dominic Taylor at 087 2996409.

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Wed 12th Dec 2007 9.00pm

Poet Colette Nic Aodha will read for the Western Writers' Centre as part of their Touring Experiment project at The White House, O Connell Street, Limerick, on Wednesday December 12th, starting at 9pm.

Colette Nic Aodha 's poetry collections are Baill Seirce (Baile Átha Cliath, Coiscéim, 1998); Faoi Chrann Cnó Capaill (Coiscéim, 2000); and Gallúnach-Ar-Rópa (Coiscéim, 2003). Her short stories are collected as Ádh Mór (Coiscéim, 2004). Sundial, published by Arlen House in September 2005, is her first collection of poetry in English and has been ten years brewing. She edited an anthology of her students poetry, Pailéad an tSaoil/ Palette of Life, 2006. Her next collection, Between Curses/Bainne Géir, a dual language collection will be published in September 2006.
For Further Information contact:

Barney Sheehan at 086 8657494 or Dominic Taylor at 087 2996409.
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Launch: Always Pushing The Pull Door

ALWAYS PUSHING THE PULL DOOR. Poems by Mark Whelan, illustrations by Thomas Delohery. Revival Press/A White House Poetry Book. ISBN 978-0-9554722-2-0 Pbck. €15.00 94pp.

This exciting and intriguing must-have publication from the ever-energetic Revival Press in Limerick rightly lauds the city’s favourite son. Richard Harris is presented here in a set of drawings by Co. Clare artist, Thomas Delohery, entitled ‘Poemtraits,’ as they are nicely accompanied by interpretations, if you like, from Cuisle festival organiser and Limerick poet, Mark Whelan. The poems and drawings first coincided at the Friar’s Gate Theatre exhibition in 2006, ‘Richard Harris: a Life,’ which subsequently toured a number of venues in the West. The second section of the book was written ‘in response to Yellow Shark, composed by Frank Zappa and performed by Ensemble Moderne, conducted by Frank Zappa.’ A working of some poems from this section waspresented by Jazz guitarist, Tom Harte, along with Mark Whelan, in the United Arts Club in Dublin, in association with Dublin poet, Kevin Byrne. So what you get here is not only a just paean to Harris but an acknowledgement of how poetry and music work together, collaborating and recontextualising one another. This in itself makes for considerable poetic innovation - and Irish contemporary poetry is not known for innovation, so it is refreshing to see it here. The illustrations and the poems to Harris work brilliantly; not for the first time, one wonders at how so many poets are drawn to work from visual images. This is an important book, and not just for lovers of the work and memory of Richard Harris; it is about collaboration between visual art and the written word, between the visually enacted and the verbally enacted and Harris would have known something about that as an actor. Good poetry and good art, conspiring to make a very good book. Congratulations, therefore, to poet, visual artist and publisher.(Fred Johnston: Western Writers' Centre)

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