Chapters and Verse Lunchtime Reading

dublin | arts and media | event notice Tuesday February 23, 2010 20:54 by Seven Towers Agency - Seven Towers Agency info at seventowers dot ie

With Celeste Auge and Orla Martin

1.15 on Friday 19th March
Chapters of Parnell St, Dublin 1

Celeste Augé
is the author of two chapbooks of poetry: Tornadoes for the Weathergirl (with the support of Galway County Council) in 2006, and Smoke and Skin (joint collection with Aoife Casby), which was published by Lapwing in Belfast, 2008. Her first full-length collection of poetry The Essential Guide to Flight has just been published by Salmon Poetry.

Orla Martin
was born in Donegal but spent her formative years in Galway and graduated with a B.A. Degree in English and French from the National University of Ireland Galway. A. Currently based in Dublin, publications include N.U.I.G. magazine Alpha ’89, Cuirt Poetry Journal ’98, the women’s’ anthology of poetry Jumping the Bus Queue 2001 and the Cathal Bui 2001 anthology of poetry, The Cuirt Annual 2003, The Scriobh Poetry Anthology 2006 and The Stony Thursday book (no 5), Census, the Second Seven Towers Anthology. She has read as part of Poetry Ireland Introductions Series. Her poetry has been highly commended at the South Tipperary Festival of Writing ’98, the Clogh Poetry Festival 2000 and Francis Ledwidge Poetry Award 2007 and also 2004 and Short-listed at Scriobh.