THURS 15 SEPT 6.30 Chapters Bookstore Themed Reading - 'ANIMALS''

dublin | arts and media | event notice Wednesday April 06, 2011 15:25 by Oran Ryan - Seven Towers Ltd info at seventowers dot ie

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 Phil Lynch, Bernie Eileen Keane John W. Sexton Oran Ryan Karl Parkinson Ross, Richard Halperin, Alma Brayden

All at Chapters Bookstore Parnell Street Dublin

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.

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

Oran Ryan is Dublin novelist,, playwright, poet and screenwriter. In 2008
he won an Arts Council Bursary award for his project New Order from Zero.
Oran's first published novel, The Death of Finn is a love story and a story of
friendship. Ten Short Novels by Arthur Kruger is Oran Ryan's second novel.
This novel circumvents the natural order of novel writing as it is written in a
cubistic format and the series of short novels contained within the novel are
written by the hero of the novel himself, rather than the real-life author. Oran
has just completed a further novel One Inch Punch. In 2009 Oran’s play Don
Quixote has been Promoted was produced at the Ranelagh Arts Festival and

Oran’s story The Dublin Book Club has been included in Dublin: Ten Stories
One Destination, by the Irish Writers Exchange.

John W Sexton was born, somewhere in Ireland, in 1958. He is variously
a poet, a rock singer, a short story writer, a children’s novelist, and a radio
playwright.

As a poet, John is the author of three collections, The Prince's Brief Career
(Cairn Mountain Press, 1995), Shadows Bloom / Scáthanna Faoi Bhláth,
a book of haiku with translations into Irish by Gabriel Rosenstock, and
Vortex (Doghouse, 2005) as well as having been a contributor to the
anthology ‘Poets For The Millennium’ (Bradshaw Books, 1999), in which he
has seven poems. His poetry has also been published extensively in literary
journals, both in Ireland and abroad.

He has also written 103 episodes of The Ivory Tower for RTÉ Radio. This
is a radio drama featuring the adventures of Johnny Coffin, the 12-year-old
drummer with a band called The Dead Crocodiles, and reluctant boyfriend
of Enya. The show has led to him writing three books so far based on the
various adventures of Johnny and Enya, The Johnny Coffin Diaries, Johnny
Coffin - School Dazed and The Enya Murphy Diaries, all published by O’Brien
Press. More are to follow.

Although the primary market for these books is young adults, they can
really be read and enjoyed by anyone. He is on the Arts Council’s Writers In
Schools Scheme, where he goes to various schools around Ireland to talk to
the students about writing. John’s work also regularly appears in Albedo 1,
Ireland’s award winning SF short story magazine.

Occasionally, John W Sexton becomes Sex W Johnston. Sex is the lead
singer, lyricist and one half of Sons of Shiva, the other half of whom is
punk god Hugh Cornwell, original frontman with The Stranglers. They have
released one CD so far called, simply enough, Sons of Shiva. This is available
in two slightly different formats, the earlier version of which was only available
from Hugh Cornwell’s website. It has since been re-released by Track
Records with an extra tenth track. I recommend it wholeheartedly.

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

Oran Ryan is Dublin novelist,, playwright, poet and screenwriter. In 2008
he won an Arts Council Bursary award for his project New Order from Zero.
Oran's first published novel, The Death of Finn is a love story and a story of
friendship. Ten Short Novels by Arthur Kruger is Oran Ryan's second novel.
This novel circumvents the natural order of novel writing as it is written in a
cubistic format and the series of short novels contained within the novel are
written by the hero of the novel himself, rather than the real-life author. Oran
has just completed a further novel One Inch Punch. In 2009 Oran’s play Don
Quixote has been Promoted was produced at the Ranelagh Arts Festival and

Oran’s story The Dublin Book Club has been included in Dublin: Ten Stories
One Destination, by the Irish Writers Exchange.

John W Sexton was born, somewhere in Ireland, in 1958. He is variously
a poet, a rock singer, a short story writer, a children’s novelist, and a radio
playwright.

As a poet, John is the author of three collections, The Prince's Brief Career
(Cairn Mountain Press, 1995), Shadows Bloom / Scáthanna Faoi Bhláth,
a book of haiku with translations into Irish by Gabriel Rosenstock, and
Vortex (Doghouse, 2005) as well as having been a contributor to the
anthology ‘Poets For The Millennium’ (Bradshaw Books, 1999), in which he
has seven poems. His poetry has also been published extensively in literary
journals, both in Ireland and abroad.

He has also written 103 episodes of The Ivory Tower for RTÉ Radio. This
is a radio drama featuring the adventures of Johnny Coffin, the 12-year-old
drummer with a band called The Dead Crocodiles, and reluctant boyfriend
of Enya. The show has led to him writing three books so far based on the
various adventures of Johnny and Enya, The Johnny Coffin Diaries, Johnny
Coffin - School Dazed and The Enya Murphy Diaries, all published by O’Brien
Press. More are to follow.

Although the primary market for these books is young adults, they can
really be read and enjoyed by anyone. He is on the Arts Council’s Writers In
Schools Scheme, where he goes to various schools around Ireland to talk to
the students about writing. John’s work also regularly appears in Albedo 1,
Ireland’s award winning SF short story magazine.

Occasionally, John W Sexton becomes Sex W Johnston. Sex is the lead
singer, lyricist and one half of Sons of Shiva, the other half of whom is
punk god Hugh Cornwell, original frontman with The Stranglers. They have
released one CD so far called, simply enough, Sons of Shiva. This is available
in two slightly different formats, the earlier version of which was only available
from Hugh Cornwell’s website. It has since been re-released by Track
Records with an extra tenth track. I recommend it wholeheartedly.

Eileen Keane is from Newbridge, Co Kildare. As well as being a printmaker,
painter, and worker in mixed media, she is an award winning short story
writer. Her first short story won the Cecil Day Lewis Prize, and she has won
many other awards, including at the Listowel Festival. Represented by the
Seven Towers Agency, she has also completed her first novel, and is working
on her second. Her work has also been published in Census 1 & 2 the Seven

Towers Anthologies.

started writing poetry while still at school. He became deeply involved in the
Dublin poetry and music scene in the late sixties and early seventies and
was included in the Capella series of poetry collections published around
that time. His poems have featured in a number of magazines, periodicals
and newspapers over the years and some were also featured on RTE radio
programmes. He has been a founder-member of poetry reading groups and
poetry-music sessions both in Ireland and Belgium as well as acting in a
number of theatrical productions. Having lived abroad for periods during the
eighties, nineties and noughties, he has renewed his engagement with the
Dublin poetry reading scene since returning to Ireland towards the end of
2009. He has recently participated in readings at the Glor sessions and at the
Last Wednesday Series reading and open Mic, Winding Stairs and Naked
Lunch sessions.