Chapters and Verse Lunchtime Reading

dublin | arts and media | event notice Tuesday September 29, 2009 17:12 by Seven Towers Agency - Seven Towers Agency info at seventowers dot ie

Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, Dublin 1 1.15pm 21st October

With Eileen Casey, Seamus Cashman, Eamonn Lynskey

Originally from the Midlands, Eileen Casey has lived in Tallaght, South Dublin, since the late 1970s. Her poetry has been published in outlets such as Poetry Ireland, Books Ireland, The Stinging Fly, The Sunday Tribune and County Lines: A Portrait of Life in South Dublin County. Her numerous awards include the Scottish International Poetry Award, the Golden Pen and the Peace Poem Awards (Cork). In 2008, Drinking the Colour Blue, her debut collection of poetry was published by New Island.

Éamonn Lynskey has had poems published in many magazines. He was nominated for the Sunday Tribune/Hennessy Literary Award for New Irish Poetry in 2006 and one of his poems will feature on the 2009 OXFAM calendar. His first collection Dispatches and Recollections was published in 1998 and he is currently working on his second. Eamonn’s work is also featured in Census, The First Seven Towers Anthology. As well as writing in English, Eamonn has also translated works of Italian poets Montale and Valeri and written in Italian – he holds, (among other qualifications!) a Diploma in Italian Language and Culture from the Italian Institute, Dublin. Most recently he played Dead Corpse in the performance of Don Quixote has been Promoted by Oran Ryan.

Seamus Cashman comes from Conna in County Cork. He founded Wolfhound Press, the leading Irish literary and cultural publishing house, in Dublin in 1974, and was publisher there until 2001. He had two well received poetry collections published, Carnival (Monarchline, 1988) and Clowns & Acrobats (Wolfhound Press, 2000) and his third collection, That Morning will Come: New and Selected Poems has just been published by Salmon.