Reading and Open Mic @ DIT Library

dublin | arts and media | event notice Tuesday February 22, 2011 19:05 by Ruairi - Seven Towers

A host of creators reading from original works

This event will see different writers reading aloud from their work. Contributors will include students from the Creative Writing Class with tutor Susan Norton, DIT Staff members, including Senior librarian at Kevin Street, Brendan Devlin and visiting poets to include Ross Hattaway and Éamonn Lynskey, Karl Parkinson and Raven.

From the Seven Towers stable of poet-performers:

Éamonn Lynskey has had poems published in many magazines. His first collection Dispatches and Recollections was published in 1998 and his second And Suddenly the Sun Again was published in May 2010. Eamonn’s work is also featured in Census, The Seven Towers Anthology. Eamonn has also translated works of Italian poets Montale and Valeri and written in Italian.

Ross Hattaway was born in New Zealand and has lived in Ireland since 1990. Ross' first collection The Gentle Art of Rotting was published by Seven Towers in 2006 and he is currently working on his second Pretending to be Dead to be published in 2011. 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.

Raven is a musician, award winning cinematographer, performer and poet, originally from San Francisco, now settled in Cabra in Dublin. He runs the Tongue Box spoken word event in The Cobblestone in Smithfield, and his first full poetry collection The Living, The Dead and Americans is scheduled for publication in 2012

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