Chapters and Verse Lunchtime Reading - with added coffee

dublin | arts and media | event notice Saturday February 19, 2011 16:11 by Seven Towers Agency - Seven Towers Agency info at seventowers dot ie

3FE @ The Twisted Pepper, 54 Middle Abbey Street, Dublin 1

With
Catherine Ann Cullen, Richard Halperin and Anne Tannam

Catherine Ann Cullen was born in Drogheda, Co Louth. She is a graduate of the M.Phil in Creative Writing at Trinity College Dublin. Her work has been published in The Doghouse Book of Ballad Poems, two Sunday Miscellany collections, The Stinging Fly, College Green and The Sunday Tribune. She is a regular contributor to RTÉ Radio One's Sunday Miscellany and A Living Word, Two verse-stories for children, The Magical, Mystical, Marvelous Coat (2001) and Thirsty Baby (2003) have been published by Little, Brown in the US. They first won a gold award for Poetry and Folklore from the American Parents Association. Her animation work includes a bawdy verse-script for Rowlandson Rides Again (Moving Still, 2006), an adult short on the 18th Century artist Thomas Rowlandson. She lives with her partner Harry and daughter Stella in Kimmage, Dublin. A Bone in My Throat (Doghouse) is her first collection of poetry.

Richard W. Halperin holds dual Irish/US citizenship, and lives in Paris.has seen over 100 of his poems published in journals, mainly in Ireland and the U.K. since he started sending them out in 2005. He has appeared in Cyphers, Revival, THE SHOp, Poetry Ireland Review and The Stony Thursday Book, and was The Stinging Fly's featured poet in the summer of 2009. He gave his first readings at Glenstal Abbey and at Glencree Centre for Reconciliation, and has read at festivals in Bantry and Athlone, Dublin Writers' Centre, the Dundalk Writers' Circle and the Live Poets Society, Paris. Mr. Halperin holds a Ph.D. in English Literature from the City University of New York. Until 2005 he was chief of teacher education for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Paris, which entailed travel and work in Asia, Africa and Central and Eastern Europe. For UNESCO, he edited the downloadable book Reading and Writing Poetry: The Recommendations of Noted Poets from Many Lands on the Teaching of Poetry in Secondary Schools, available in English, French and Spanish versions. Anniversary his debut collection has recently been published by Salmon.
Anne Tannam was born in 1966 in Dublin, one of four children. Brought up on a diet of books. Went to college, became a teacher, got married, had four children. Juggled parenthood with part time work and ran around like a headless chicken for a few years. Got a diploma in life coaching, learned to stop for a while and figure out how I wanted to live. Began writing. Continued to juggle but less frantically. Kept writing, loved writing, wrote a book. Had the time of my life. Coached others who wanted to have the time of their life. Not the end. Anne has just published her first poetry collection Take This Life.