Listen Again to James Harpur

Listen again to James Harpur read at the Poetry Revival

at the White House, Limerick.

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Poetry Revival Slide Show Wed 25th Nov 2009

Revival Poets Reading at OBheal, Cork

White House Poetry Revival Wed 25th Nov 2009

White House Poetry Revival
Wed 25th Nov 2009 9.00pm

This weeks guest poet is James Harpur in association with Poetry Ireland.

James Harpur is a poet with four collections of poetry published by Anvil Press. He has won a number of awards, including the 2009 Michael Hartnett Award and the British National Poetry Competition. He was born to an Irish father and a British mother and now lives near Clonakilty in Co. Cork. He studied Classics and English at university then taught English on the island of Crete. Many of the poems of his first collection, A Vision of Comets, published by Anvil Press, take their inspiration from his time on Crete and from the Aegean area.
Harpur has published three further books with Anvil, The Monk’s Dream, Oracle Bones and The Dark Age, as well as a translation of the poems of Boethius, Fortune’s Prisoner. He has been well represented in anthologies, including Staying Alive (Bloodaxe), and has won a number of awards, including the 2009 Michael Hartnett Award and British national poetry competition in 1995. He has also published a book of mixed prose and poems called The Gospel of Joseph of Arimathea (Wild Goose) and a non-fiction introduction to the Christian mystics, Love Burning in the Soul (Shambhala). He is the poetry editor of Southword, one of Ireland’s leading literary periodicals, and the Temenos Academy Review, founded by Kathleen Raine.

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, Poetry Ireland, Limerick City Council.
CHECK OUT 'ON THE NAIL' LITERARY READING HERE: (Next reading Thursday Dec 3rd)
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Listen again to Patricia Byrne reading at the Revival Poetry

reading at the White House, Limerick.

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Poetry Revival Slide Show 17th Nov 2009

White House Poetry Revival
Wed 18th Nov. 2009 9.00pm

This weeks guest poet is Patricia Byrne who will be launching her debut collection Unstable Time, the launch will be performed by Ciaran O'Driscoll.

Patricia Byrne is a Limerick writer and a regular reader at White House Poetry sessions. She writes poetry, fiction and nonfiction and is a graduate of the MA (Writing) programme form NUI Galway. Her poetry has been widely published in journals and anthologies and she won the Dromineer Poetry Prize (2007). Unstable Time, from Lapwing Press, is her first poetry collection. Patricia’s short fiction is included in the collection Town of Fiction (2009) from the Atlantis Collective of writers. She is currently writing a nonfiction book, The Friar & the Felon, about the Valley House atrocity in Achill in 1894.

Info:Dominic Taylor 087 2996409
Blog http://www.whitehousepoets.blogspot.com/

The White House Poets acknowledge the support of the Arts Council, Foras na Gaeilge, Poetry Ireland and Limerick City Council.
CHECK OUT 'ON THE NAIL' READING HERE:
http://onthenailreadings.blogspot.com
http://www.youtube.com/onthenailreadings

Listen again to Nessa O'Mahony read at the Poetry Revival at the White House, Limerick.

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Poetry Revival Slide Show Nov 11th 2009

White House Poetry Revival Wed 11th Nov 2009

White House Poetry Revival
Wed 11th Nov 2009 9.00pm

This weeks guest poet is Nessa O'Mahony.

Nessa O’Mahony was born in Dublin and lives in Rathfarnham where she works as a freelance teacher and writer. Her poetry has appeared in a number of Irish, UK, and North American periodicals and has been translated into several European languages. She won the National Women’s Poetry Competition in 1997 and was shortlisted for the Patrick Kavanagh Prize and Hennessy Literature Awards. She was awarded an Arts Council of Ireland literature bursary in 2004, a Simba Gill Fellowship in 2005 and an artists’ bursary from South Dublin County Council in 2007. She has published three books: Bar Talk (Italics Press, Dublin 1999), Trapping a Ghost (bluechrome, Bristol, 2005) and In Sight of Home (Salmon Poetry, 2005). She is assistant editor of UK literary journal, Orbis.

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, Poetry Ireland, Limerick City Council.

CHECK OUT 'ON THE NAIL' LITERARY READING HERE: (Next reading Thursday Dec 3rd)
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Listen Again to Maurice Scully

Listen again to Maurice Scully reading at the White House Poetry Revival

Wed 4th Nov 2009

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Revival Poetry Slide Show 4th Nov 2009

White House Poetry Revival Wed 4th Nov 2009

White House Poetry Revival
Wed 4th Nov. 2009 9.00pm

This weeks guest poet is Maurice Scully.

Maurice Scully was born in Dublin in 1952. Active through the 70s & 80s as editor & organizor of talks, readings & performances which introduced poets from avant-garde backgrounds to an Irish audience.For 25 years he was engaged on a single project entitled Things That Happen, a work in 8 books, 3 chapbooks, currently available in a 4-vol set as: 5 Freedoms of Movement, Livelihood, Sonata & Tig. Dedalus Press recently published a selection of his work: Doing the Same in English. A new book, Humming, is due from Shearsman Books soon, and a further book, Several Dances, is in the pipeline for 2010.Scully has read & published abroad a lot where his work is perhaps better known than here at home.

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.

Photo: (c) Hazel Scully

CHECK OUT 'ON THE NAIL' READING HERE: http://www.youtube.com/OnTheNailReadings http://onthenailreadings.blogspot.com