White House Poetry Revival Wed 16th Jan 2007

White House Poetry Revival
Wed 16th Jan 2009 9.00pm

This weeks guest poet is Hugh O Donnell.

Hugh O’Donnell was born in Dublin in 1951. His first collection, Roman Pines at Berkeley, appeared from Salmon Publishing in 1990. He has contributed to RTE Radio One’s Sunday Miscellany and been short-listed for the Francis Mac Manus Short Story competition. For a time during the ‘90s he co-edited the literary magazine, Cobweb (NUI Maynooth). In 2006 he graduated with an MA in Ecology and Religion from the University of Wales (Lampeter) out of which grew Eucharist and the Living Earth (Columba, 2007), a book of ecological theology. He lives with the Salesian community in Dublin city where he ministers in the local parish.
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White House Poetry Revival Wed 19th Dec 2007

White House Poetry Slide Show 5th dec 2007

White House Poetry Revival Wed 5th Dec 2007

White House Poetry Revival
Wed 5th Dec 2007 9.30pm

This weeks guest in association with the Western Writers' Centre as part of their Touring Experiment project is Dairena Ní Chinnéide

Dairena Ní Chinnéide lives in the West Kerry Gaeltacht of Corca Dhuibhne. Her first bilingual collection of poetry "An Trodaí agus Dánta Eile/The Warrior and Other Poems" was published by Cló Iar Chonnachta in 2006. She received second prize in the Samhain Smurfit International Poetry Competition in 2004. She was awarded a bursary from Ealaíon na Gaeltachta and the Arts Council the same year. In 2005 she was shortlisted for the Strokestown International Poetry Competition and received a bursary from Bord na Leabhar Gaeilge. She represented Ireland on the Words Unbound international poetry exchange visiting France, England and Belgium 2006/2007. She also represented Ireland on "Cuairt na mBard" poetry and musical exchange with Scotland and the Outer Hebrides.Dairena also worked on the Gaelic Jazz Project for IMRAM 2007.She was shortlisted for the Strong Award in 2007. Her second poetry collection "Máthair an Fhiaigh/The Raven's Mother" is due for publication by Cló Iar Chonnachta in 2008. She works as an interpreter for the European Parliment other European institutions and freelance companies in Ireland.

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White House Poetry Slide Show 28th Nov 2007

White House Poetry Revival Wed 28th Nov 2007

White House Poetry Revival

Wed 28th Nov 2007 9.00pm

This weeks guest is Pádraig Mac Fhearghusa

Pádraig Mac Fhearghusa was born in Ballineen in West Cork. His collections are Faoi Léigear (Baile Átha Cliath, An Clóchomhar Tta., 1980); Mearcair (Baile Átha Cliath, Coiscéim), which won the Oireachtas na Gaeilge National Poetry Prize in 1996; and An Dara Bás (Coiscéim, 2002), which won the Oireachtas na Gaeilge National Poetry Prize in 2002. Among his other publications is Tóraíocht an Mhíshonais (The Pursuit of Unhappiness), an Irish language introduction to Freud and Jung (Coiscéim, 1997). He is current editor of the Irish language literary monthly, Feasta. He lives in Tralee.

The White House Poets acknowledge the assistance of the Arts Council of Ireland.

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White House Poetry Revival Wed 14th Nov 2007

White House Poetry Revival

Wed 14th Nov 2007 9.00pm

This weeks guest poet is Gene Barry.

Gene Barry was born in Cork. He has been writing for over 20 years. Has had poems published in Ireland and England, his first collection is due for publication in 2008.

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Cuisle; Limerick City International Poetry Festival 2007

White House Poetry Revival Wed 24th Oct 2007

White House Poetry Revival

Wed 24th Oct 2007 9.30pm

This week the White House Poetry Revival presents a double bill with Canadian poets Celeste Auge and Melanie Francis.

Celeste Auge was born in Canada, but moved to Ireland when she was twelve years old. She now lives in County Galway. Her poems have appeared in a wide variety of literary journals. She has read her work at Poetry Ireland Introductions and also read at the inaugural Cuirt Festival/Over The Edge showcase reading in April 2006.? In 2006 she was awarded the Publication Assistance Grant by Galway County Council. Tornadoes For The Weathergirl, a chapbook of her poems, was published in November 2006.

Mélanie Francès was born in Paris on October 18th, 1972, with Canadian and French origins and grew up in France. As a young girl, she lived for four years in New Delhi, India, where she learned English and started a lifelong love story with the language. As a college student, she discovered her gift for writing and developed an interest in the arts and American literature. She later moved to Montreal in Canada to pursue her graduate studies at Concordia University and obtained an M.A. Degree in English and Creative Writing. In 2001, she published her first chapbook of poetry, The World is in your Head, with Ginninderra Press in Australia. She lives in Montreal where she works in communications and public relations and is currently working on her first novel about the immigrant experience and the birth of the movies at the beginning of the century in the USA.

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John Carmody Crowned Cuisle Slam Champion '07

Former Cuisle poetry Slam champion John Carmody regained his crown lat night, Saturday the 20th October, at the White House bar in Limerick. John who last won the crown four years ago was run a close second by Ciaran O Driscoll, himself a former winner in 2005. The White House was packed with poets and interested onlookers as the contestants went through their paces. Many of the guest poets who appeared at Cuisle this year were in the audience and were absolutely delighted with the proceedings and the friendy athmosphere generated by this celebration of poetry.

White House Poetry Revival Wed 17th Oct 2007

White House Poetry Revival

Wed 17th Oct 2007 9.30pm

Launch of Issue 5 of Revival Poetry Journal plus a reading by guest poet Keith Armstrong.

The White HousePoets launch Issue five of REVIVAL Poetry Journal next Wed 17th Oct at the White House as part of Cuisle -Limerick City International Poetry Festival. The launch will be performed by the Mayor of Limerick Cllr. Ger Fahy at 9.30pm.

Copies will be available on the night PRICE: €7.00

Submissions are now being accepted for Issue 6 to be published in Jan. 2008. Deadline for submissions is the 30th November 2007.

Keith Armstrong was born in Heaton, Newcastle upon Tyne, where he has worked as a community development worker, poet, librarian and publisher, he is coordinator of the Northern Voices creative writing and community publishing project which specialises in recording the experiences of people in the North East of England.

He has organised several community arts festivals in the region and many literary events featuring the likes YevgeYevtushenko,Ian McMillan, Sean O'Brien, Attila the Stockbroker, Brendan Cleary, Adrian Mitchell, Julia Darling, Jackie Kay, and Benjamin Zephaniah. He was founder of Ostrich poetry magazine, Poetry North East, Tyneside Writers' Workshop, Tyneside Poets, East Durham Writers' Workshop, Tyneside Trade Unionists for Socialist Arts, Tyneside Street Press and the Strong Words and Durham Voices community publishing series.

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White House Poetry Revival Wed 10th Oct 2007

White House Poetry Revival
Wed 10th Oct 2007 9.00pm

This weeks guests are Australian poets Earl Livings and Ray Liversidge.

Earl Livings has had poetry and fiction published in journals and anthologies around Australia and also in Britain, Canada, the USA, and Germany. He is the current editor of Divan (www.bhtafe.edu.au/divan), Australia’s first all-Australian online poetry journal. His first book of poetry, Further than Night (Bystander Press), was published in 2000. Earl has recently completed a PhD in Creative Writing and is working on his next collection of poetry

Ray Liversidge is an Australian poet. His first book of poetry, Obeying the Call, appeared in 2003. His verse novel The Barrier Range, which draws on the expeditions of early Australian explorers Burke and Wills, and Charles Sturt, was published in 2006. Ray has his own website at www.poetray.com.au. He is currently working on a manuscript on the work and lives of dead poets.

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White House Poetry Slide Show Wed 26th Sept 2007

White House Poetry Revival Wed 26th Sept. 2007

White House Poetry Revival

Wed 26th Sept 2007 9.00pm

This weeks guest is Anatoly Kudryavitsky.

Anatoly (Anthony) Kudryavitsky was born in 1954 in Moscow of a Polish father and half-Irish mother. Educated at Moscow Medical University, he later studied Irish history and cultural heritage. Having lived in Russia and Germany, he now lives in Dublin and teaches creative writing to aspiring authors from Ireland’s minority ethnic communities. In 2005, Goldsmith Press published his first collection entitled Shadow of Time, followed by his second collection Morning at Mount Ring (Doghouse Books, 2007). His anthology of contemporary Russian poetry in English translation entitled A Night in the Nabokov Hotel was published in 2006 by Dedalus. In the same year he founded the Irish Haiku Society, of which he is chairman. He is also editor of Shamrock Haiku Journal (http://www.freewebs.com/shamrockhaiku). His poems and short stories were published in magazines nationally and internationally, and have been translated into nine languages. In 2003 he was awarded the Edgeworth Prize for poetry, in 2005 shortlisted for the Robert Graves Poetry Award. He also won a few intermational awards for his haiku poems.

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Launch of Revival 4 at Over The Edge, Galway

White House Poetry Slide Show Wed 5th Sept 2007

White House Poetry Revival Wed 5th Sept 2007

White House Poetry Revival
Wed 5th Sept 2007 9.00pm

This weeks guest is Catherine Ann Cullen.

Catherine Ann Cullen’s first collection of poetry, A Bone in My Throat, was published by Doghouse in July 2007. Catherine Ann was born in Drogheda, Co Louth. She is a graduate of the M.Phil in Creative Writing at Trinity College Dublin. Her work has been published in The Doghouse Book of Irish Ballads, two Sunday Miscellany collections, The Stinging Fly, College Green and The Sunday Tribune, and her poetry was used in the play, The Pandora Effect, by Gary Carter (London, 2003).She is a regular contributor to RTE Radio 1’s Sunday Miscellany and A Living Word, and has presented work at the Kilkenny Arts Festival, the Brendan Kennelly Festival, the Poetry Ireland Introductions series, the Between the Lines Festival, and Belfast Young at Arts. Her two children’s books, The Magical, Mystical, Marvelous Coat (2001) and Thirsty Baby (2003) have been published by Little, Brown in the US. The first won a gold award for Poetry and Folklore from the American Parents Association. She has also written two stories for the RTE series Fiction 15, and one for the collection Stories for Jamie (Blackwater Press, 2002). Her animation work includes a bawdy verse-script for Rowlandson Rides Again (Moving Still, 2006), an adult short on the 18th C artist Thomas Rowlandson. She has made documentaries and a series about food for RTE Radio 1 as well as producing current affairs, arts and features. She lives with her partner Harry and daughter Stella Nora in Kimmage, Dublin 12.

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White House Poetry Slide Show Wed 4th May 2007

White House Poetry Revival Wed May 2nd 2007

White House Poetry Revival
Wed 2nd May 2007 9:00pm


This weeks guest poet is Alan Garvey.


Alan Garvey's work has been published in magazines such as 'THE SHOp',
'Southword' and 'The Stinging Fly'; and the anthologies: 'The Backyards of
Heaven' and 'However Blow the Winds'. He self-published three chapbooks:
'Dear Whoever', 'The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea' and 'Play Dead'. He
received Travel & Mobility grants from the Arts Council of Ireland to read
in the University of Toronto and at the March Hare Festival, Newfoundland.
He lives in Carlow with his wife, Tara and son, Keir. Arts administrator
and part-time lecturer, he is studying for an M.A. in Creative Writing at
Waterford Institute of Technology. His first full collection, 'Herself in
Air' (2006), is published by Lapwing Publications (Belfast).
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White House Poetry Revival Wed 25th April 2007

White House Poetry Revival
Wed 25th April 2007 9:00pm


This weeks guest poet is Cliff Wegebury.

Cliff Wegebury is a Cork based poet, playwright, performing artist and broadcaster, born in London in 1946.He has released three CD's of his own compositions, the last being "Antarctic Ballads," in 2006, featuring the widely broadcast, "Ballad of Tom Crean." "A Lingering Adolescence," is his fifth collection of poetry, being published shortly by Belfast Lapwing.

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