White House Poetry Revival Wed 1st Oct 2008

White House Poetry Revival
Wed 1st Oct. 2008 9.00pm

This weeks guest is Gabriel Fitzmaurice.

Born Moyvane, Co Kerry, 1952. Bilingual poet, literary advisor, translator, teacher, musician, broadcaster. In addition to broadcasting on Irish radio and television, Fitzmaurice is widely collected both in English, and Irish. Among his English poetry collections are Rainsong, Road to the Horizon, Dancing Through, The Father’s Part and The Village Sings. In Irish, he has published the collection Nocht. A primary school teacher, Fitzmaurice dabbles in children’s verse, authoring The Moving Stair. He works as a translator of essays and collections of songs/ballads from the original Irish and has twice represented Ireland at the European Festival of Poetry. Along with writing and teaching, Fitzmaurice has also found success as a singer of traditional Irish music. He resides in Kerry.


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This weeks guest is Val Nolan

Val Nolan is a native of Ardagh, Co. Limerick. He is a graduate of UCC and the MA in Writing programme at NUI Galway, where he is currently completing doctoral study, lecturing on 20th century poetry and Irish short fiction, along with facilitating creative writing workshops. His poetry has been published in Ché in Verse, an anthology of poetry about Ché Guevara, and in New York's Mobius Magazine. He has also published work in literary journals such as Revival, Southword, Crannóg, ROPES, Spoke, Criterion '05, and contributed to the 2007 Cúirt International Festival of Literature as part of the Document writer/artist collaboration.

As a critic he has written reviews, articles and interviews for publications including Poetry Ireland Review, The Sunday Business Post, Magill and The Stinging Fly. He has read his work widely in Ireland and the UK, and was selected for last year's Poetry Ireland ‘Introductions’ programme along with Galway's ‘Over the Edge’ reading series. He has recently delivered papers and invited lectures on Michael Hartnett, Derek Mahon and Louis MacNeice at UCC, University of Stirling and Queens University Belfast respectively.

Info: Dominic Taylor 087 2996409 or Barney Sheehan 086 8657494 Bloghttp//:whitehousepoets.blogspot.comThe White House Poets gratefully acknowledges the support of the Arts Council, Foras na Gaeilge, Poetry Ireland, Limerick City Council.

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White House Poetry Revival
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This weeks guest poet is Billy Ramsell.

Billy Ramsell was born in Cork in 1977 and educated at the North Monastery and UCC. He began writing seriously in 2000 when he moved to Barcelona for a year. His first collection Complicated Pleasures was published by the Dedalus Press in 2007. he has been shortlisted for a Hennessy award and a Strong award. He lives in Cork where he co-runs an educational publishing company.

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White House Poetry Revival
Wed 3rd Sept 2008 9.00pm

This Weeks Guest Poet is Aoife Casby.

AOIFE CASBY is originally from Mayo and now lives in Carraroe, Co. Galway where she works as a writer and visual artist. She has published in literary journals such as Poetry Ireland, Cyphers, Orbis, West47, Ropes, The Cork Literary Review, The Cúirt Annual, DIVAS 2 Anthology and others. A selection of her poetry was published (with writer Celeste Augé) by Lapwing in a chapbook Smoke & Skin in 2008. She was selected for Poetry Ireland's Introductions Series in 2007 and has been shortlisted for the START Chapbook Poetry Award and the Cúirt New Writing Prize. She read in a showcase for emerging writers at Cúirt in 2007 and her work was selected for the Windows Writers & Artist Series 2007. She was longlisted for The Fish International Short Story Award 2008. Aoife has worked as Writer In Residence on a project with community groups in Connemara. She was the winner of the 2008 Edgeworth Poetry Prize and received a Literature Award from Galway Co. Council in 2008. Aoife was shortlisted for a Hennessy Literary Award for Poetry 2008 and for The Fish International Poetry Award 2008.

Info: Dominic Taylor 087 2996409 or Barney Sheehan 086 8657494 Bloghttp//:whitehousepoets.blogspot.com
The White House Poetsgratefullyacknowledges the support of the Arts Council, Foras na Gaeilge, Poetry Ireland, Limerick City Council.