4 May Lunchtime reading at the 3FE Twisted Pepper Abbey St Dublin: 1.15 - 2pm

dublin | arts and media | event notice Tuesday April 05, 2011 16:41 by Oran Ryan - Seven Towers Ltd info at seventowers dot ie

This is a regular event hosted by Seven Towers Publishing (www.seventowers.ie) - performed in various venues both in Ireland and abroad. Performance Poetry and top writing from the following authors: Bernie o Reilly, Liz McSkeane Michael Farry, Roger Hudson

Michael Farry has been writing poetry since 2004 and has been published in
a number of small magazines and has been commended and shortlisted in
a number of poetry competitions. He is a founder member of Boyne Writers

Group and an editor of the Boyne Berries journal.

Liz McSkeane was born in Glasgow and has lived in Dublin since 1981 where
she has worked as a teacher, broadcaster and education consultant with a
special interest in literacy and educational disadvantage. In 1988 she joined
Dublin Writers’ Workshop which she co-facilitated for two years with the writer
John Minihane; in 1990 they founded the DWW journal, Acorn, named for the
Oak Tavern in Dame Street, the original venue where the Workshop used to
meet. Since then, Liz has written numerous poems, short stories and radio
scripts, many of which have been published in newspapers, magazines and
literary journals including The Irish Times , Poetry Ireland Review , The Shop,
The Stinging Fly and others. Her work has been broadcast on RTE Radio ,
on several programmes including The Arts Show and The Enchanted Road.
She also scripted and presented three literary documentaries for RTE Radio
1 on the lives and work of Beckett, Robert Burns and George Bernard Shaw .
In 1996, Lapwing Press published her first short poetry collection, a chapbook
called In Flight. Her poetry has also been anthologised in The White Page
(Salmon Poetry, 1999) and Slow Time: 100 Poems to Take You There
(Mercier, 2000 ). In 1999 Liz won the Sunday Tribune New Irish Writer of the
Year Award and the Emerging Poetry Award. Her first full collection, Snow at
the Opera House, was published in 2002 by New Island Press. Since then,
alongside working on her poems and short stories, Liz has completed her
PhD in Education. Most of her publications in the last few years have been in
that field, on behalf of various Irish and European organisations including, in
the last two years, the European Commission. She is currently working on her
next collection of poems, provisionally entitled Versailles; and also on her first
novel.

Roger Hudson grew up in Bramley, a country village in Surrey near Guildford,
as an evacuee from London during World War II and now lived in Drogheda.
Co Louth, where he is a member of the Drogheda Creative Writers. A writer of
poetry and crime novels his fiction work includes Death Comes by Amphora
and Fraud Under the Akropolis, crime novels set in Ancient Greece, and
his most recent publication is his third poetry collection Greybell Wood and
Beyond to be published shortly published by Lapwing.

Bernadette O’Reilly has read at the poetry Ireland Introductions Series, Poets
Anon, Peanut Club, last Wednesday Series and Chapters and Verse. She
has taken part in workshops with Tony Curtis, Jean O’Brien, Gerard Dawe,
jean valentine, Jamie McKendrick and her work has been published in Poetry
Ireland Review, Poetry Review UK and Census, the Seven Towers Anthology.