White House Poetry Revival Wed 3rd Dec 2008

White House Poetry Revival
Wed 3rd Dec 2008 9.00pm

This weeks guest is Oran Ryan.

Oran Ryan is a novelist, poet and playwright from Dublin. He has had poems, short stories and literary critical articles published in various magazines. His first two novels, The Death of Finn and Ten Short Novels by Arthur Kruger were published by Seven Towers in 2006. He is currently working on his fifth novel and had three plays and two screenplays in pre-production. Oran won a 2008 Arts Council Bursary Award.

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

White House Poetry Slide Show Wed 26th Nov 2008

White House Poetry Revival Wed 26th Nov 2009

White House Poetry Revival
Wed 26th Nov 2008 9.00pm

This weeks guests are the Lucan Writers Group from Dublin.

Lucan writers group has been well established for many years now. Membershave been short listed in the People's College Writing Competition, andrepresented in Ireland's Own, Sunday Miscellany, the Hennessy New WritersAwards (5 nominations, 1 winner) both prose and poetry sections); andquite a few have had poems and prose included in an anthology of workscompiled by Dermot Bolger called County Lines: A Portrait of Life in SouthDublin County (New Island). Some were invited to read their work at theannual Readers Day in the Plaza Hotel in Tallaght.A number of them have been interviewed on local radio stations and werehighly commended for a radio story competition by Liffey Sound 96.4FM andread our work on air. And this year six have entered for the FrancisMcManus Awards on RTÉ Radio 1. One member collaborated on Treasures ofLucan - a book portraying the beauty and the history to be found in andaround our Village with its wonderful Demesne walks, while another is inthe process of setting up a Junior Writers Group in Clondalkin.Two of the group have completed novels that are wending their way topublishers; and four more novels are in gestation. Last December a LucanCreative Writers Group poet had a poem chosen for the 2008 Oxfam Irelandcalendar - other contributors to this calendar include Seamus Heaney andMary O'Malley. And a television programme City Loops, soon to be featuredon RTÉ 1, will feature another member.Last year, thanks to Library funding, they published their own anthology -Caught in Amber - which was edited by Eileen Casey and launched by DermotBolger.

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

White House Poetry Slide Show Wed 19th Nov 2008

White House Poetry Revival Wed 19th Nov 2008

White House Poetry Revival
Wed 19th Nov 2008 9.00pm

This weeks guests are Eamon Carr and Ross Hattaway.

Eamon Carr has been a significant figure in the Irish artistic and cultural scene for many years. In the late 1960s he co-founded Tara Telephone, the music and poetry group of the Dublin beat scene.Tara Telephone published everyone from Marc Bolan to Allan Ginsberg, Brian Patten, Seamus Heaney, Pearse Hutchinson, Eilean Ni Chuilleanain, Brendan Kennelly, Adrian Mitchell, Pete Brown in their magazines and broadsheets. The group also ran recitals. Among those who read with Tara Telephone, in addition to Eamon and Peter Fallon were Phil Lynott and Roger McGough. With Jim Fitzpatrick, the group also produced specially designed posters with artwork and poems combined. One of these posters with Eamon's poem 'A Tale of Love' was exhibited in the Tate Gallery, Liverpool, Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era Exhibition in 2005 which also toured in Germany and Austria.Following on from Tara Telephone, in the 1970's Eamon co-founded Horslips, the hugelyinfluential band which is credited with creating the musical genre known as Celtic Rock, and in which he is also a drummer, conceptualist and lyricist. Eamon has also promoted musicians andartists, and works as a journalist, writer and commentator on culture, politics, arts, music and sport as well as an award winning broadcaster.The Origami Crow: Journey into Japan, World Cup Summer 2002 is Eamon's first collection of poetry and the profundity and depth of the work is a just reward for the long wait. The book is a collection of prose poems and Haiku following Eamon's life experience, his journey into Japan that fateful Summer to follow the footsteps of Basho and is set against the backdrop of the Irish World Cup experience in Japan in Summer 2002.The publication of this collection is an exciting event because of the beauty of the work itself, and its significance as another important milestone in the work of a great artist and a man who truly has the soul of a poet.Eamon Carr was born in Co. Meath and lives in Dublin.

Ross Hattaway was born in Wellington New Zealand, but has lived in Ireland since 1990. He has had many varied jobs and currently works as a civil servant. His first collection of poetry, The Gentle Art of Rotting was published by Seven Towers in 2006. This will be Ross' first reading in Dublin, after touring Lithuania as part of the Poetry Spring Festival 2008 and seeing his work translated into Lithuanian.

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

All Ireland Poetry Slam 2008 Slide Show

White House Poetry Revival Wed 12th Nov 2008

White House Poetry Revival
Wed 12th Nov 2008 9.00pm

The second All Ireland Live Poetry Championships will occur in the White House pub, Limerick on Wednesday the 12th November.

Next years is scheduled to happen in either Connacht or Leinster, in what is hoped will become a revolving and democratic annual jamboree celebrating the noble bardic art of filidecht.Live poetry in Ireland is thriving, and to prove the point the number of venues around the country that hold regular poetry event is steadily growing, even Poetry Ireland recently inaugurated an open-mic event in Damer Hall in Dublin. From Cork to Belfast and all points in between live poetry is taken the country by storm. In Galway Over The Edge instigated by Kevin Higgins: Dominic Taylor and Barney Sheehan who run the White House Poets weekly Wednesday in Limerick, Pamela Brown, Jenni Doherty and Abby Oliveira who perform singularly and as The Poetry Chicks -- all committed facilitators of live poetry events in Derry - Mark Madden of the Creative Writers Network in Belfast, Gordon Hewitt and Chelley McLear also in Ulster, the Monday night ÓBhéal in Cork which Paul Casey initiated last year -- Mike Igoe and his three fellow Cavan cohorts from the fortnightly Naked Lunch series, Orla Martin in the Winding Stair Bookshop and the poets behind Seven Towers monthly poetrynight in Cassidy's - all in Dublin -- are individuals and organizations dedicated to making the native Irish art of poetry, live, accessible and inclusive to anyone on the island wishing to partake of it.After the success of the very first regional heats which lead to the inaugural All Ireland Live Poetry Championships in Belfast last year, won by Liverpudlian native and long time Galway resident Brendan Murphy - who went on to the BBC Radio Four Poetry Slam in London - many of those named above, hooked up to create an informal body of poet/organisers, with the intention of making it easier than ever before for those wishing to discover and attend places in which to experience a reading, recite themselves, or even tour around an all island circuit, which was birthed over a couple of pints in the Electric Mouse pub, on the penultimate Saturday evening of the In Sight of Raftery Festival in Kiltimagh,Mayo.At this festival in the home place of the great blindpoet-musician from whom it is named, a quadruplet body of representatives from the four provinces, met collectively face to face for the first time and sealed an informal set-up in which the promotion of live poetry took centre stage.And the primary tool effecting this coalescing of creative and organisational talent into an all island whole, was the internet, which has revolutionised in a few short years, how people all over the world communicate, acting as an immediate postal service, dissemination board, shop window for recordings of live events, ad-space, classroom and calling card for anyone with the wit, will and ability to click their way into a virtual realm where physical borders and barriers do not exist and the free exchange of what's inside our head and hearts is happening in a way unpredictable during the lifetimes of our great grandparents, only three generations ago.
Further info: Desmond Swords at desmondswords@hotmail.com
http://www.myspace.com/dublinpoet - latest Dublin poets streamed recordings http://irishpoetry.blogspot.com/ - read the latest blather.

White House Poetry Slide Show - Aine Moynihan

White House Poetry Revival Wed 5th Nov 2008

White House Poetry Revival
Wed 5th Nov. 2008 9.00pm

This weeks guest is Aine Moynihan

A native of County Wexford, Aine Moynihan trained as a professional actor in the Abbey Theatre in the 1970s and also graduated in Arts and Education from UCD. On moving to Kerry she became involved in the arts in the community, local radio, adult education and training. In 2002 she founded the Youth Theatre Company, AnnOg. She now divides her time between writing and directing and is engaged in research into actor training.

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