At Third Floor Espresso @Twisted Pepper Building 54 Middle Abbey Street Dublin 1
Reading with poets Ross Hattaway and Eamonn Lynskey and novelist and playwright Oran Ryan.
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.
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.
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.