Book launch: Launch of 'And Suddenly the Sun Again' by Eamonn Lynskey

dublin | arts and media | event notice Monday May 31, 2010 08:11 by Seven Towers Agency - Seven Towers Agency info at seventowers dot ie

At Cassidy's Bar, Westmoreland St, Dublin 2

Wednesday 2nd June at 6pm

Eamonn Lynskey was born in Dublin in 1948. Now retired, he has worked as an accounts/sales clerk, as teacher, and as a director of Adult Education. His poetry has been published widely since its first appearance in the 1980s in the Irish Press 'New Irish Writing' page edited by David Marcus. His first collection ('Dispatches & Recollections') was published by Lapwing (Belfast) in 1998 and he was nominated for a Hennessy / Sunday Tribune award in 2006. A poem of his (in this collection: 'Is It Possible to be Elegant on a Bicycle in Traffic in the Rain') appeared in the 2009 Oxfam calander. He has performed his poetry widely and is an enthusiastic supporter of the Open Mic in Dublin, London and elsewhere. This is his second collection.

Karl Parkinson is a performance poet from Dublin and is well known from his performances at literary events and at festivals including the Electric Picnic. Karl's work was published in the 2009 Seven Towers Anthology Census. Also in 2009, Karl won the most entertaining Irish act award in the Balcony TV International Awards.