White House Poetry Revival Wed 1st July 2009

White House Poetry Revival
Wed 1st July 2009 9.00pm

This weeks guest poet is Noel Monahan.

Noel Monahan was born in Granard, Co Longford. His collections are Opposite Walls (Galway, Salmon Poetry, 1991); Snowfire (Salmon Poetry, 1995); Curse of the Birds (Cliffs of Moher, Co Clare, Salmon Publishing, 2001); and The Funeral Game (Salmon Publishing, 2004).In 2001 he won the SeaCat National Poetry Award, organised by Poetry Ireland. Also in 2001 he won the RTÉ P.J. O'Connor Award for his play Broken Cups. In 2002 he won the ASTI Achievements Award for his contribution to literature at home and abroad. Other awards include The Allingham Poetry Award and The Kilkenny Prize for Poetry.He lives in Cavan.

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 and Limerick City Council.

Listen Again: Liam Ryan

To listen again to Liam Ryan reading at the White House Poetry Revival, click the link below:
http://tinyurl.com/nl4nkj

Poetry Revival Slide Show Wed 24th June 2009

White House Poetry Revival

Wed 24th June. 2006 9.00pm

This weeks guest poet is Liam Ryan.

Liam Ryan born in Tipperary 1955. Living in Laois since 1983 where he runs an architectural practice.

Poems and reviews have been published in Irish Times, Poetry Ireland etc over a number of years.

"Touching Stones" is his debut collection from Doghouse.

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 and Limerick City Council.

Listen Again: Catherine Walsh

To listen again to Catherine Walsh reading at The Poetry Revival last Wednesday, click the link below:

http://tinyurl.com/lfotju

Poetry Revival Slide Show 17th June 2009

White House Poetry Revival Wed 17th June 2009

White House Poetry Revival
Wed 17th June 2009 9.00pm

This weeks guest poet is Catherine Walsh.

Catherine Walsh was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1964. Having lived in Barcelona and in Eastbourne, England, she is now back in Ireland, living in Limerick. She has published and read and her work is taught at Third Level widely in Ireland, the U.K. and the U.S. She co-edits hardPressed Poetry and the Journal with Billy Mills. Her books include Macula (Red Wheelbarrow Press, Dublin: 1986); The Ca Pater Pillar Thing and More Besides (hardPressed Poetry, Dublin, 1986), Making Tents (hardPressed Poetry, Dublin, 1987), Short Stories (North & South, Twickenham and Wakefield, 1989), Pitch (Pig Press, Durham, 1994), Idir Eatortha & Making Tents (Invisible Books, London, 1996); City West (Shearsman, Exeter, 2005) and from Optic Verve (Longhouse, Vermont 2006). Her work is included in No Soy Tu Musa (Ediciones Torremozas, Madrid, 2008), a bilingual Spanish/English anthology of Irish women poets. Her next book, Optic Verve: A Commentary, is forthcoming from Shearsman.

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 and Limerick City Council.

Listen Again: John Menaghan 10/06/09

To listen again to John Menaghan read at the White House Poetry Revival last Wednesday, click the link below:

http://tinyurl.com/naxm29

Poetry Revival Slide Show 10th June 2009

White House Poetry Revival Wed 10th June 2009

White House Poetry Revival

Wed 10th June. 2006 9.00pm

This weeks guest poet is John Menaghan from the United States.

John Menaghans first book of poems,"All the Money in the World," appeared in 1999 from Salmon Poetry. His second book, "She Alone," a book-length sequence tracing an imaginary woman's journey from birth to death and beyond appeared, also from Salmon, in April 2006. His third book What Vanishes (Salmon Poetry) has just been published.

He has won awards for his poetry, including an Academy of American Poets Prize. In addition, he has translated poems by Baudelaire,Mallarmé, Verlaine, Rimbaud, and Valéry and published a number of these translations.He has read his work all across across the U.S.from New York to Honolulu as well as in Ireland and Hungary.

He is now a full professor at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles and both founder and Director of both an Irish Studies and a Summer in Ireland program there.

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 and Limerick City Council.

Listen Again: Tim Daly 3rd June 2009

To listen again to Tim Daly read

at the White House Poetry Revival

click the link below:

http://tinyurl.com/qx7n8c

Poetry Revival Slide Show 3rd June 2009