Book Launch Quincy R Lehr

national | miscellaneous | press release Friday April 11, 2008 18:36 by Sarah Lundberg - Seven Towers Agency sarah at seventowers dot ie

All Welcome

The SEVEN TOWERS AGENCY
Is delighted to announce the following launches to celebrate the publication of
QUINCY R. LEHR’S COLLECTION OF POETRY ‘ACROSS THE GRID OF STREETS’
and accompanying Chapbook William Montgomery’s Guide to New York

Book Launch

GALWAY
Wednesday 16th APRIL 2008 at 6.30pm
The CITY MUSEUM and afterwards to Sheridans on the Docks; to be launched by
MICHAEL O LOUGHLIN

DUBLIN
Saturday 19th APRIL 2008 at 3.30pm
CASSIDYS OF WESTMORELAND ST

KERRY
Saturday 26th APRIL at 3.30pm
REUBENS CAFÉ AND WINE BAR, ASHE ST to be launched by
JOHN W SEXTON

Quincy R. Lehr was born in Oklahoma City in 1975. He attended the University of Texas at Austin and Columbia University in New York City before relocating to Ireland, where he teaches history. His poetry has been published on both sides of the Atlantic in journals and in a small collection, William Montgomery, by New York based chapbook publisher Modern Metrics which Quincy founded with R. Nemo Hill. Quincy has taken part on many readings on both sides of the Atlantic and facilitates an on-line poetry workshop.

Michael O’Loughlin was born in Dublin in 1958.His poetry collections are Stalingrad: The Street Dictionary (Dublin, Raven Press, 1980); Atlantic Blues (Dublin, Raven Arts Press, 1982); The Diary of a Silence (Raven Arts Press, 1985); and Another Nation, New & Selected Poems (Dublin, New Island Books, 1994/UK Arc Publications, 1996). He has also published a collection of short stories, The Inside Story (Raven Arts Press, 1999); a critical essay, After Kavanagh: Patrick Kavanagh and the Discourse of Contemporary Irish Poetry (Raven Arts Press, 1985); and his translation of the Dutch poet Gerrit Achterberg’s selected poems, Hidden Weddings (Raven Arts Press, 1987). He is presently writer in residence in Galway

John W. Sexton is a poet, short story writer, dramatist, children’s novelist, radio scriptwriter and sometime rockstar! He has published three collections of poetry, The Prince’s Brief Career (Cairn Mountain Press, 1995), Shadows Bloom/Scathanna Faoi Bhláth and Vortex (Doghouse, 2005). He is the creator of RTÉ's children's radio serial The Ivory Tower. His books include The Prince's Brief Career (Cairn Mountain Publishing) and The Johnny Coffin Diaries (The O'Brien Press). He has also released an album, THE SONS OF SHIVA, with legendary Stranglers frontman Hugh Cornwell.

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