Poetry Revival Slide Show 20th April 2009

White House Poetry Revival Wed 29th Apr 2009

Celebrating over 300 readings at the White House, Limerick!

White House Poetry Revival
Wed 29th April 2009 9.00pm

This weeks guest poet is Pauline Fayne.

Pauline Fayne founded the Clothesline Writer’s Group in the 1980’s, publishing two anthologies ‘Round Peg’ and ‘Finders Keepers’ from Clothesline Community Press. Pauline, through her association with Alternative Entertainments throughout the 1980’s and beyond, contributed enormously to Tallagh’s literary life. Her most recent poetry collections are ‘Killer of Fishes’(2001) and ‘I’m Fine Really’(2005), both from Stonebridge.


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The White House Poets acknowledge the support of the Arts Council, Foras na Gaeilge, Poetry Ireland and Limerick City Council.

Listen Again: Sean Lysaght 22nd Apr 2009

Listen again to Sean Lysaght reading at the

White House Poetry Revival
Wed 22nd April 2009,
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Poetry Revival Slide Show 22nd Apr 2009

White House Poetry Revival Wed 22nd Apr 2009

This week celebrating 300 readings at the White House, Limerick!

White House Poetry Revival
Wed 22nd April 2009 9.00pm

This weeks guest poet is Seán Lysaght plus launch of Revival 11.

Seán Lysaght was born in 1957 and grew up in Thomondgate, Limerick andstudied Arts at UCD. While still a student, he took part in the Castlereadings organised by Claude and Dorina Byrne in King John's Castle,Limerick. His first poems were published by Jim Kemmy in the LimerickSocialist. His first collection, Noah's Irish Ark (1989) was followed byfive books from Gallery Press, including Scarecrow (1998), The Mouth ofa River (2007) and translations from Goethe, Venetian Epigrams (2008).He was awarded the Lawrence O' Shaughnessy Poetry Award in 2007. HisSelected Poems will appear next year. He now lives in Westport, Co.Mayo.

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Listen Again: Burt Kimmelman 14th Apr. 2009

Listen again to Burt Kimmelman reading at the White House Poetry Revival

Wed 14th April 2009,

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Poetry Revival Slide Show 14th Apr. 2009

White House Poetry revival wed 15th April 2009

White House Poetry Revival
Wed 15th April 2009 9.00pm

This weeks guest poet is Burt Kimmelman (USA).

Burt Kimmelman has published five collections of poetry – Musaics (Sputyen Duyvil Press, 1992), First Life (Jensen/Daniels Publishing, 2000), The Pond at Cape May Point (Marsh Hawk Press, 2002), a collaboration with the painter Fred Caruso, Somehow (Marsh Hawk Press, 2005), and There Are Words (Dos Madres Press, 2007); his volume of poems titled As If Free is forthcoming in 2009 (from Talisman House, Publishers). For over a decade he was Senior Editor of Poetry New York: A Journal of Poetry and Translation. He is a professor of English at New Jersey Institute of Technology and the author of two book-length literary studies: The "Winter Mind": William Bronk and American Letters (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1998); and, The Poetics of Authorship in the Later Middle Ages: The Emergence of the Modern Literary Persona (Peter Lang Publishing, 1996; paperback 1999). He also edited The Facts on File Companion to 20th-Century American Poetry (Facts on File, 2005) and co- edited The Facts on File Companion to American Poetry (2007).

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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.

Listen Again: Harriett O'Carroll 8th April 2009

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White House Poetry Revival on 8th April 2009,

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Poetry Revival Slide Show 8th Apr 2009

White House Poetry Revival Wed 8th April 2009

White House Poetry Revival
Wed 8th April 2009 9.00pm

This weeks guest poet is Harriett O'Carroll.


Harriet O'Carroll was a physiotherapist before she started writing short stories in 1979. She was published in the Beacon and Virago Press, won awards, and appeared in periodicals, anthologies and The Irish Times. She has been translated into French. She has also written radio plays , has had ten plays on RTE Radio 1 and five plays on BBC Radio 4. A favourite of these, MINUET, was RTE’s selected entry for the Italia Prize and told the story of Jane Austen’s romance with a law student from Limerick. She also wrote a screenplay version of this story which was optioned by Working Title.
She wrote episodes for GLENROE and FAIR CITY and was an associate storyliner for GLENROE. She also wrote an episode of MONARCH OF THE GLEN.
She wrote a six hour adaptation of Stella Tillyard’s ARISTOCRATS for BBC 1, broadcast in 1999. It continues to be broadcast world wide and has just been issued in DVD. .
She has screenplays in various stages of development. She wrote the original treatment for THE CLINIC for Parallel Films Ltd., and RTE.

For theatre she wrote BOTTLE OF SMOKE, produced by Island Theatre Company and THE TRICKSTER, an adaptation of Moliere’s LES FOURBERIES DE SCAPIN, also produced by Island Theatre Company.

She has been writing poetry intermittently over the years.

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.

Listen Again: Brendan Murphy 1st April 2009

Listen again to Brendan Murphy reading at the White House Poetry Revival on the 1st April 2009.

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Poetry Revival Slide Show 1st April 2009