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Sunday May 02, 2010 13:45

by Seven Towers Agency - Seven Towers Agency

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With Pauline Fayne, Ross Hattaway and Eileen Keane

At Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, Dublin 1, 1.15 Wed 5th May

Ross Hattaway was born in New Zealand and has lived in Ireland since 1990. He has published poetry in periodicals and collections, including Writings (Wellington), Life Beyond the Louvres (Northern Territory Anthology), Poetry Australia and The Raintown Review’. His readings include the Poetry Ireland Introduction Series, Anna Livia FM, Between the Lines (Belfast), Chapter and Verse, the Last Wednesday Series, Ó Bhéal and The White House Poets. His first collection of poetry, The Gentle Art of Rotting, was published by Seven Towers in 2006 and he is currently working on his second collection due out in 2011. In 2008 Ross was a guest at the Poetry Spring Festival in Lithuania, becoming the first Irish poet to guest at that festival. Part of The Gentle Art of Rotting was translated into Lithuanian and published as part of the festival celebration. Also in 2008, Ross was a guest of the Live Poet’s Society in Sydney. In 2009 Ross was a guest reader at the Saturn Sessions in New York.

Pauline Fayne was born in 1954 and lives in Tallaght, Co. Dublin. Her first collection Journey was published in 1979 by Sheveck Press. Her second collection Killer of Fishes was published by Stonebridge Publications in 2001. A third collection I’m Fine, Really was published by Stonebridge Publications in October 2005. Her fourth collection Mowing in the Dark will be published by Stonebridge in 2010. Pauline’s work has been included in several anthologies, including: The White Page (edited by Joan Mc Breen and published by Salmon Press); Four Urban Voices (edited by Dermot Bolger and published by Raven Arts Press); Rainbows and Stone (edited by Michael Bouchier and published by Real Ireland). Her work has also been broadcast on RTE Radio 1 and BBC Radio 4.

Eileen Keane’s first short story won the Cecil Day Lewis fiction prize in 2004 and in 2007 her short story Tryst was one of 14 chosen through a competition on Seoige and O’Shea on RTE or an anthology called Do the Write Thing (Poolbeg Press). In 2008 she won first prize in the humorous essay competition at Listowel. In 2008, her story The Cave was published in Census, the First Seven Towers Anthology. She is a visual artist, a member of K.A. (Kildare Artists), Clane Writer’s Group and a founder member of the Leinster Printmaking Studio at Clane, Co. Kildare and has just completed her first novel.

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