15 DEC Chapters Bookstore Themed Reading 'CHRISTMAS'

dublin | arts and media | event notice Wednesday April 06, 2011 16:59 by Oran Ryan - Seven Towers Ltd info at seventowers dot ie

This is a regular literary even run by the Seven Towers Agency, a small publishing house and event host, occurring at various locations and Internationally see www.seventowers.ie

The very best performance poetry and writing from the following poets and writers
Maeve O’SULLIVAN and Bernie O REILLY Roger Hudson Anne Tannam Oran Ryan Karl Parkinson, Ross HATTAWAY
All at Chapters Bookstore Parnell Street Dublin

Maeve O’Sullivan has published her poems and haiku widely, and is a former
poetry winner at Listowel Writer’s Week. She is a member of Haiku Ireland,
the Poetry Divas and the Hibernian Poetry Workshop. Maeve’s first haiku
collection, Initial Response is forthcoming in April 2011 from Alba Publishing.

Bernadette O’Reilly has read at the poetry Ireland Introductions Series, Poets
Anon, Peanut Club, last Wednesday Series and Chapters and Verse. She
has taken part in workshops with Tony Curtis, Jean O’Brien, Gerard Dawe,
jean valentine, Jamie McKendrick and her work has been published in Poetry
Ireland Review, Poetry Review UK and Census, the Seven Towers Anthology.

Roger Hudson grew up in Bramley, a country village in Surrey near Guildford,
as an evacuee from London during World War II and now lived in Drogheda.
Co Louth, where he is a member of the Drogheda Creative Writers. A writer of
poetry and crime novels his fiction work includes Death Comes by Amphora
and Fraud Under the Akropolis, crime novels set in Ancient Greece, and
his most recent publication is his third poetry collection Greybell Wood and
Beyond to be published shortly published by Lapwing.

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

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.

Karl Parkinson is a Dublin poet and performer whose work has been
published in journals and anthologies as well as in his own pamphlet. Karl
has performed in many different spoken word events, including the Electric
Picnic, and in 2008 he won the Most Entertaining Irish Act award at the
International Balcony TV Awards

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.