Literary Ireland Week at DIT Kevin St

dublin | arts and media | event notice Monday March 08, 2010 15:17 by Seven Towers Agency - Seven Towers Agency info at seventowers dot ie

in The Library, DIT Kevin St, March 10th 7pm

Reading with Seamus Cashman, Anamaria Crowe Serrano, Ross Hattaway, Eamonn Lynskey, Philip Cohen, Brendan Devlin, Anne Morgan

Seamus Cashman
Seamus Cashman comes from Conna in County Cork. He founded Wolfhound Press, the leading Irish literary and cultural publishing house, in Dublin in 1974, and was publisher there until 2001. He had two well received poetry collections published, Carnival (Monarchline, 1988) and Clowns & Acrobats (Wolfhound Press, 2000) and his third collection, That Morning will Come: New and Selected Poems was published by Salmon in 2008.

Ross Hattaway
Ross Hattaway was born in New Zealand and has been living in Ireland since 1990. He has published poetry in periodicals and anthologies, including Writings (Wellington), Life Beyond the Louvres (Northern Territory Anthology), Poetry Australia. 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 The White House Poets. His first collection of poetry The Gentle Art of Rotting was published by Seven Towers in 2006. 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 Summer 2009, Ross was a featured poet at the Saturn Sessions in Greenwich Village NYC.
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
Anamaría Crowe Serrano 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 Annamaria Ferramosca. Her first full length collection of poetry, Femispheres, was published by Shearsman, UK, in March 2008.
DIT Staff - Anne Morgan (Accounts), Brendan Devlin (Faculty Librarian) and Philip Cohen (Head of Library Services) will read from their own work
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