This is a regular literary even run by the Seven Towers Agency, a small publishing house and event host, occurring at various locations and Internationally see www.seventowers.ie
The very best performance poetry and writing from the following poets and writers
Maeve O Sullivan, Ann Morgan, Bernie O Reilly Roger Hudson Karl Parkinson, Ross Hattaway Eamonn Lynskey
All at Chapters Bookstore Parnell Street Dublin ADMISSION FREE!
Karl Parkinson is a Dublin poet and performer whose work has been
published in journals and anthologies as well as in his own pamphlet. Karl
has performed in many different spoken word events, including the Electric
Picnic, and in 2008 he won the Most Entertaining Irish Act award at the
International Balcony TV Awards
Anne Morgan was born in London and grew up in Dublin. She Studied
English as St Patrick’s College Maynooth and has taken part in readings
in the ballymun Axis Theatre and the Irish Writers Centre as well as at the
Chapters and Verse Series. She has had work published in Census, The
Seven Towers Anthology as well as in journals including Newsfour, Riposte
and Electric Acorn.
Bernadette O’Reilly has read at the poetry Ireland Introductions Series, Poets
Anon, Peanut Club, last Wednesday Series and Chapters and Verse. She
has taken part in workshops with Tony Curtis, Jean O’Brien, Gerard Dawe,
jean valentine, Jamie McKendrick and her work has been published in Poetry
Ireland Review, Poetry Review UK and Census, the Seven Towers Anthology.
Roger Hudson grew up in Bramley, a country village in Surrey near Guildford,
as an evacuee from London during World War II and now lived in Drogheda.
Co Louth, where he is a member of the Drogheda Creative Writers. A writer of
poetry and crime novels his fiction work includes Death Comes by Amphora
and Fraud Under the Akropolis, crime novels set in Ancient Greece, and
his most recent publication is his third poetry collection Greybell Wood and
Beyond to be published shortly published by Lapwing.
Ross Hattaway is a New Zealand born Irish poet. Ross' first collection The
Gentle Art of Rotting was published by Seven Towers in 2006 and he is
currently working on his second to be published in 2011. Ross' work has been
published all over the world and he has taken part in readings all over the
world. In 2008 he was the first Irish poet to be invited as a featured guest at
the International Poetry Spring Festival in Lithuania and his work has been
translated into and published in Lithuanian.. He also guested at the Live
Poet's Society Reading in Sydney in July 2008, and Manhattan’s East Village
Saturn Sessions in June 2009. His second collection Pretending to be Dead
will be published by Seven Towers in 2011.
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 And Suddenly the Sun Again
to be published in May 2010. Eamonn’s work is also featured in Census,
The First Seven Towers Anthology and Census, The second Seven Towers
Anthology. . Eamonn has also translated works of Italian poets Montale and
Valeri and written in Italian – he holds a Diploma in Italian Lauguage and
Culture from the Italian Institute, Dublin. His second collection, And Suddenly
the Sun Again has just been published by Seven Towers.