Chapters And Verse Themed reading

dublin | arts and media | event notice Sunday May 02, 2010 14:08 by Seven Towers Agency - Seven Towers Agency info at seventowers dot ie

Theme of 'Setting Out'. in Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St Dublin 1.

With Steve Conway, Anamaria Crowe Serrano, Ross Hattaway, Eileen Keane, Eamonn Lynskey, Greagoir O Duill, Karl Parkinson, Oran Ryan, Bob Shakeshaft,

Steve Conway is an Irish broadcaster and writer, formerly of the offshore pirate station Radio Caroline and most recently a presenter on the Dublin rock station Phantom105.2. He started his radio career on a small London rock music pirate, South East Sound before moving to Radio Caroline in 1987, where he rose to the positions of Head of News and Programme Controller. In 1991 he was one of the final crew members rescued from the Caroline ship Ross Revenge when it ran aground on the Goodwin Sands. His memoir about his time on Radio Caroline, Shiprocked, Life on the Waves with Radio Caroline was published by Liberties Press in March 2009, to both popular and critical acclaim. He is currently working on his second book which
combines a memoir from a different aspect of his life with an invitation for others to make their own memories

Annamaría Crowe Serrana is Irish and lives in Dublin with her family. She has worked at Dublin City University
and Trinity College Dublin, and is currently a freelance
translator and teacher of Spanish language. She has published
several translations of poetry including Valerio Magrelli’s
Instructions on How to Read a Newspaper (Chelsea Editions, 2008). Other work includes a collection of short stories, Dall’altra parte (Leconte, Rome, 2003), a one-act play, The Interpreter (Delta3 Edizioni, 2003), and a collection of poems,
Paso Doble, (Empiria, Rome, 2006) written as a poetic dialogue with the Italian poet Annamaria Ferramosca. Her first full length collection of poetry, Femispheres, was published by Shearsman, UK, in March 2008.

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.

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.

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 featured on the 2009 OXFAM calendar. His first collection Dispatches and Recollections was published in 1998 and 1.His second collection And Suddenly the Sun Again will be published in 2010. Éamonn, who holds a Diploma in Italian Language and Culture has also translated the works of modern Italian poets into English. He is also a long time contributor to the open mic scene in Dublin.

Greagoir Ó Duill was born in Dublin and grew up outside Belfast. He has published nine collections of poetry, two anthologies, a critical biography and a collection of short stories, and he has taken prizes in poetry, short fiction and criticism. He writes in both Irish and English and his work is widely anthologised and has been translated into the major European languages - most recently with a full-length collection of versions of his Irish poems in English by Bernie Kenny called Gone to Earth. He has read from Cork to Stornoway to Palermo to New York. His own most recent collection New Room Windows (Doghouse, 2008) is in English.

Karl Parkinson is a performance poet from Dublin and is well known from his performances at literary events and at festivals including the Electric Picnic. Karl's work was published in the 2009 Seven Towers Anthology Census. Also in 2009, Karl won the most entertaining Irish act award in the Balcony TV International Awards.

Oran Ryan is a novelist, poet and playwright from Dublin. He has had poems, short stories and literary critical articles published in various magazines. His first two novels, The Death of Finn and Ten Short Novels by Arthur Kruger were published by Seven Towers in 2006.His play Don Quixote has Been Promoted featured in 2009 Ranelagh Arts Festival. Oran won a 2008 Arts Council Bursary Award for his current work in progress New Order from Zero.

Robert Shakeshaft was born in 1949. In 2004 he attended a creative writing course run by Skerries poet, Enda Coyle Green. At this event he wrote his first poem, called ‘February Field’. He has since written a number of poems, has performed at open mics in Inchicore, at the Inchicore Village Festival, and has had work published in the journal Riposte.