12 May Chapters Bookstore Themed Reading ' Work and Other Pastimes'

dublin | arts and media | event notice Tuesday April 05, 2011 16:51 by Oran Ryan - Seven Towers Ltd info at seventowers dot ie

Chapters and Verse reading chapter’s bookstore Parnell street Dublin

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:
Catherine Anne Cullen, M O’Sullivan, Anne Morgan, Eamon Lynskey
David Murphy Donal Maloney Eileen Keane Karl Parkinson,
Ross Hattaway

Performed in the fantastic Chapters bookstore Dublin. Admission: Free!

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.

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.

Catherine Ann Cullen 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 Ballad Poems, two Sunday Miscellany
collections, The Stinging Fly, College Green and The Sunday Tribune. She
is a regular contributor to RTÉ Radio One's Sunday Miscellany and A Living
Word, Two verse-stories for children, The Magical, Mystical, Marvelous Coat
(2001) and Thirsty Baby (2003) have been published by Little, Brown in the
US. They first won a gold award for Poetry and Folklore from the American
Parents Association. Her animation work includes a bawdy verse-script for
Rowlandson Rides Again (Moving Still, 2006), an adult short on the 18th
Century artist Thomas Rowlandson. She lives with her partner Harry and
daughter Stella in Kimmage, Dublin. A Bone in My Throat (Doghouse) is her
first collection of poetry.

Donal Moloney is a writer and translator from Waterford. His work has been
published in the Census anthologies. He was recently commended in the
International Sean O’Faolain short story competition, and his work has been
included in an anthology of the competition winners.

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.

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.