Chapters And Lunchtime reading

dublin | arts and media | event notice Sunday May 02, 2010 14:51 by Seven Towers Agency - Seven Towers Agency info at seventowers dot ie

Chapters bookstore, Parnell st Dublin 1 at 1.15

With Anamaria Crowe Serrano, Eamonn Lynskey and Karl Parkinson

Chapters BookStore, Parnell St, Dublin 1 with Anamaria Crowe Serrano, Eamonn Lynskey and Karl Parkinson

Annamaría 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.

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.

Karl Parkinson is a performance poet from Dublin and is well known from his performances at literary events and at festivals including the Electric Picnic. Karl's work was published in the 2009 Seven Towers Anthology Census. Also in 2009, Karl won the most entertaining Irish act award in the Balcony TV International Awards.