Chapters and Verse Themed Reading

dublin | arts and media | event notice Tuesday February 23, 2010 20:28 by Seven Towers Agency - Seven Towers Agency info at seventowers dot ie

Hear writers read from their work on the theme of STARS

Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, Dublin 1
6.30 on Thursday 11th March

With:

Phantom 105.2 FM, and former Radio Caroline DJ, Steve Conway

Dublin poet and translator Anamaria Crowe Serrano

Kildare short story writer, novelist and artist Eileen Keane

New Zealand born poet Ross Hattaway

Dublin poet Eamonn Lynskey

Dublin poet, novelist, playwright and screenwriter Oran Ryan

Dublin poet 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 rockmusic 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.

Anamaría 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 Anamaria 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 TheWhite 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. 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, amember 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.

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 ocurse 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 eh Inchicore Village Festival, and has had work published in the journal Riposte.

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.