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dublin | arts and media | event notice Tuesday April 05, 2011 16:29 by Oran Ryan - Seven Towers Ltd info at seventowers dot ie

This is a regular event hosted by Seven Towers Publishing (www.seventowers.ie) - performed in various venues both in Ireland and abroad. Performance Poetry and top writing from the following authors:
Phil Lynch, Ross Hattaway, Liz McSkeane, Eamonn Lynskey, Anne Tannam Karl Parkinson

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.

Liz McSkeane was born in Glasgow and has lived in Dublin since 1981 where
she has worked as a teacher, broadcaster and education consultant with a
special interest in literacy and educational disadvantage. In 1988 she joined
Dublin Writers’ Workshop which she co-facilitated for two years with the writer
John Minihane; in 1990 they founded the DWW journal, Acorn, named for the
Oak Tavern in Dame Street, the original venue where the Workshop used to
meet. Since then, Liz has written numerous poems, short stories and radio
scripts, many of which have been published in newspapers, magazines and
literary journals including The Irish Times , Poetry Ireland Review , The Shop,
The Stinging Fly and others. Her work has been broadcast on RTE Radio ,
on several programmes including The Arts Show and The Enchanted Road.
She also scripted and presented three literary documentaries for RTE Radio
1 on the lives and work of Beckett, Robert Burns and George Bernard Shaw .
In 1996, Lapwing Press published her first short poetry collection, a chapbook
called In Flight. Her poetry has also been anthologised in The White Page
(Salmon Poetry, 1999) and Slow Time: 100 Poems to Take You There
(Mercier, 2000 ). In 1999 Liz won the Sunday Tribune New Irish Writer of the
Year Award and the Emerging Poetry Award. Her first full collection, Snow at
the Opera House, was published in 2002 by New Island Press. Since then,
alongside working on her poems and short stories, Liz has completed her
PhD in Education. Most of her publications in the last few years have been in
that field, on behalf of various Irish and European organisations including, in
the last two years, the European Commission. She is currently working on her
next collection of poems, provisionally entitled Versailles; and also on her first
novel.

Anne Tannam was born in 1966 in Dublin, one of four children. Brought up
on a diet of books. Went to college, became a teacher, got married, had
four children. Juggled parenthood with part time work and ran around like a
headless chicken for a few years. Got a diploma in life coaching, learned to
stop for a while and figure out how I wanted to live. Began writing. Continued
to juggle but less frantically. Kept writing, loved writing, wrote a book. Had the
time of my life. Coached others who wanted to have the time of their life. Not
the end. Anne has just published her first poetry collection Take This Life