White House Poetry Revival Wed 2nd Mar 2008

White House Poetry Revival
Wed 2nd April 2008 9.00pm

This weeks guest is Frank Golden

Dublin-born poet, novelist and artist Frank Golden has been living in Co. Clare for the bones of twenty years. Salmon Poetry published his The Interior Act in 1999, and other work includes the novel, The Two Women of Aganatz, On Route to Leameneh and In Partial Settlement. More recently he has had solo exhibitions of his paintings and has worked on film projects. The recent launch of his new collection, In Daily Accord, comprised a three-voice reading of the greater part of the poems against a backdrop of specially-composed piano music and slide projections of his works.

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

White House Poetry Slide Show Wed 26th Mar 2008

White House Poetry Revival Wed 26th March 2008

White House Poetry Revival
Wed 26th March 2008 9.00pm

This weeks guest is Margaret Galvin.

Margaret Galvin was born in Cahir, Co. Tipperary in 1959 but has spent all of her adult life in Wexford. She worked for People Newspapers for many years and was Editor of the weekly magazine - Ireland's Own - from 1994 to 1999. Her poetry has attracted a number of significant prizes, including The Brendan Kennelly and The Smurfit Samhain Awards. The Wishbone is her fourth collection. She lives in Wexford town with her husband, Philip Quirke, and their son, Ibar

Margaret Galvin tackles a wide range of subjects. She celebrates the memory of men and women, including her parents, and while respecting their individuality she looks at life with a sharp, clear and unflinching eye. - Anne Le Marquand Hartigan, poet, artist and playwright

Her lyrical narrative style of poem evokes people long gone, but makes us see them as if we knew them and cared about them. She creates a truly memorable world in six to right lines. - Noel King, Editor, Doghouse Books She is a lively, committed artist, who models, in poem after poem, an admirable attention to image and sound, and beyond that, attention to the sacredness, the vital life, of the moment. - Mary O'Connor, lecturer and critic, University of South Dakota, USA

She enacts misfortunes with a casualness which echoes the random adversities of life itself, and is to be commended for avoiding the sensationalist vein with which tribulation so often enters verse. - Val Nolan, Southword, Cork

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

White House Poetry Slide Show 19th Mar 2008

White House Poetry Revival Wed 19th March 2008

White House Poetry Revival
Wed 19th March 2008 9.00pm

This weeks guest is Cliff Wedgbury.

Cliff Wedgbury is a Cork based poet, playwright, performing artist and broadcaster, born in London in 1946. "A Lingering Adolescence," is his fifth collection of poetry published by Belfast Lapwing in 2007. In October 2007 his poem, "My Love Sold Revolutionary Newspapers," was published in the anthology, "Che in Verse," (Aflame Books U.K.) acknowledging the 40th anniversary of the death of Che Guevara.

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

Poetry Revival Slide Show Wed 12th Mar 2008

Mark Whelan for Gort Literary Festival

CUISLE FESTIVAL ORGANISER FOR GORT LITERARY FESTIVAL

Organiser of Limerick's literary festival, Cuisle, Mark Whelan, will find himself reading at the end of the month at the forthcoming 'The Forge At Gort' literary festival, organised by Galway's Western Writers' Centre. Most recently, Mark Whelan, working with artist Thomas Delahory, brought out a collection of poems and drawings around Richard Harris and his Limerick connection, 'Always Pushing The Pull Door,' published by Limerick's Revival Press. Mark Whelan will read in O'Grady's Bar, The Square, Gort, with poet and artist Frank Golden, on Saturday, March 29th, at 1pm.
Frank Golden is a Dublin artist and member of the Board of the Western Writers' Centre and a prominent poet and story writer who has lived in Co. Clare for many years. His most recent collection of work, 'In Daily Accord,' was published recently from Salmon Poetry. Reviews of both Mark Whelan's work and that of Frank Golden can be found on the Western Writers' Centre website's Kiosque pages, at www.twwc.ie Admission to the Gort readings is €7 and €5. The new festival is sponsored by Quinn's Pharmacy, Gort, The Arts Council, and Galway County Council. Further details can be obtained from 091.533594 or mhtml:%7B79B28CE4-7850-4EA8-8F8D-83D94843268E%7Dmid://00000223/!x-usc:mailto:westernwriters@eircom.net

White House Poetry Revival Wed 12th March 2008

White House Poetry Revival
Wed 12th March 2008 9.00pm

Limerick launch of Voices of Clare a new anthology from the group of Clare poets who brought you the Three Legged Stool anthology.

The poets reading will include Brian Mooney, Arthur Watson, Patrick Stack, Claire Hughes and Rob Hopkins.

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

Poetry Revival Slide Show 5th March 2008

Padraic Fallon Memorial Poetry Competition.

Padraic Fallon Memorial Poetry Competition.

Deadline: 14 April 2008

In memory of the poet and playwright Padraic Fallon who was born in the town of Athenry, the Athenry Arts and Heritage Centre is hosting a poetry competition.
Closing date is April 14th 2008 and winners will be announced in May
The judge will be Ciaran O’Driscoll a Limerick based poet and member of Aos Dana who has published numerous poetry collections, most recently The Old Women of Maggione, which has also been translated into Italian and is available in a bilingual
version.
Athenry Heritage Centre, St. Mary’s,
The Square, Athenry, Co. Galway
Phone 091 844661 e-mail: info@athenryheritagecentre.com

White House Poetry Revival Wed 5th March 2008

White House Poetry Revival

Wed 5th March 2008 9.00pm

This weeks guest poet is Pat Cotter.
Patrick Cotter's first full-length poetry collection Perplexed Skin was published by Arlen House and launched at the Cork Vision Centre in North Main Street on Wednesday 20th February 2008.

Born in Cork, 1963. Writer, and publisher. Cotter was educated at UCC. Cotter’s poems can be found in such journals as Poetry Durham, Oxford Poetry, The Salmon, The Shop, Poetry Ireland Review and many other places. His has published several chapbooks of his poems including The Misogynist’s Blue Nightmare (Raven Arts Press), A Socialist’s Dozen (Three Spires Press), and The True Story of Aoife and Lir’s Children & other poems (Three Spires Press). His work has appeared in the anthologies Separate Islands: Contemporary British and Irish poetry (Quarry, Ontario) Irish Poetry Now (Wolfhound) Jumping off Shadows - Some Contemporary Irish Poets (Cork University Press) The Irish Eros (Gill & Macmillan) The Backyards of Heaven (Newfoundland) Something Beginning with P (O'Brien Press) and in The Great Book of Ireland. He has published short fiction in Cyphers, New Irish Writing and elsewhere. His translations of the Estonian poet Andres Ehin are collected in the book Moosebeetle Swallow (Southword Editions). His play Beauty and the Stalker was produced at the Granary Theatre, Cork in 2000. In 1984 he was shortlisted for a Hennessy Award. Cotter was runner-up in the Patrick Kavanagh award in 1988. He currently directs the Munster Literature Centre.

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