Ross Hattaway

Our monthly reading and open mic event that occures onthe last Wednesday of each month in Cassidy's bar in Dublin and in Rocky Sullivan's in Brooklyn. The Dublin event will see Steve Conway, Ross Hattaway, Oran Ryan and Eamonn Lynskey among the nmany participants and this month's special guest is Michael ... (more)Farry. Michael is a member of the Boyle Writers Group which runs a wonderful open mic event in Trim, Co Meath. Michael is also editor of the 'Boyne Berries' Journal and well known in his own write (!) as a reader, writer and for running his Bob Dylan Website.

Steve Conway is an Irish broadcaster and writer, formerly of the offshore pirate station Radio Caroline and most recently a presenter on the Dublin rock station Phantom105.2. He started his radio career on a small London rockmusic pirate, South East Sound before moving to Radio Caroline in 1987, where ... (more)he rose to the positions of Head of News and Programme Controller. In 1991 he was one of the final crew members rescued from the Caroline ship Ross Revenge when it ran aground on the Goodwin Sands. His memoir about his time on Radio Caroline, Shiprocked, Life on the Waves with Radio Caroline was published by Liberties Press in March 2009, to both popular and critical acclaim. He is currently working on his second book which combines a memoir from a different aspect of his life with an invitation for others to make their own memories. 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 Anamaria Ferramosca. Her first full length collection of poetry, Femispheres, was published by Shearsman, UK, in March 2008. Ross Hattaway was born in New Zealand and has lived in Ireland since 1990. He has published poetry in periodicals and collections, including Writings (Wellington), Life Beyond the Louvres (Northern Territory Anthology), Poetry Australia and The Raintown Review’. 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 TheWhite House Poets. His first collection of poetry, The Gentle Art of Rotting, was published by Seven Towers in 2006 and he is currently working on his second collection. 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 2009 Ross was a guest reader at the Saturn Sessions in New York. Eileen Keane’s first short story won the Cecil Day Lewis fiction prize in 2004 and in 2007 her short story Tryst was one of 14 chosen through a competition on Seoige and O’Shea on RTE or an anthology called Do the Write Thing (Poolbeg Press). In 2008 she won first prize in the humorous essay competition at Listowel. In 2008, her story The Cave was published in Census, the First Seven Towers Anthology. She is a visual artist, amember of K.A. (Kildare Artists), Clane Writer’s Group and a founder member of the Leinster Printmaking Studio at Clane, Co. Kildare and has just completed her first novel. Oran Ryan is a novelist, poet and playwright from Dublin. He has had poems, short stories and literary critical articles published in various magazines. His first two novels, The Death of Finn and Ten Short Novels by Arthur Kruger were published by Seven Towers in 2006.His play Don Quixote has Been Promoted featured in 2009 Ranelagh Arts Festival. Oran won a 2008 Arts Council Bursary Award for his current work in progress New Order from Zero. Robert Shakeshaft was born in 1949. In 2004 he attended a creative writing ocurse run by Skerries poet, Enda Coyle Green. At this event he wrote his first poem, called ‘February Field’. He has since written a number of poems, has performed at open mics in Inchicore, at eh Inchicore Village Festival, and has had work published in the journal Riposte. 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.

Our regular reading and open mic with Steve Conway, Ross Hattaway, Eamon Lynskey, Donal Moloney, Noel O Briain, Oran Ryan among others!

Ross Hattaway is a New Zealand born Irish poet. Ross' first collection The Gentle Art of Rotting was published by Seven Towers in 2006. Ross' work has been published all over the world and he has taken part in readings all over the world. In 2008 he was the first Irish poet to be invited as a featured ... (more)guest at the International Poetry Spring Festival in Lithuania. He also guested at the Live Poet's Society Reading in Sydney in July 2008, and Manhattan’s East Village Saturn Sessions in June 2009. Doog Wood was born in Jackson County, North Carolina and has spent his life living between North Carolina, New York, Dublin and Morocc o. He has an MFA from Columbia University in New York and currently lives between New York and Dublin, Ireland, where he teaches Latin in Trinity College. Doog is married to Jennifer Lyons and they have one son Thaddeus. His first collection Old Men Forget was published by Seven Towers and launched by Ross Hattaway in New York in June 2009.

Other names will be added - and other people may just approach the mike as the day geos on!! And remember - tis the day for Buying Poetry!!

Transatlantic Literary Event with readings and open mic once a month at Cassidys of Westmoreland St in Dublin and Rocky Sullivans in Red Hook in Brooklyn. more details from www.seventowers.ie Regular Resident readers and others!

Premier of play Don Quixote has been Promoted by Oran Ryan. Scoil Bhride, Oakley Road, Ranelagh The event will begin with a performance of the short play Don Quixote Gets Promoted about Cervantes’ great literary hero. The play has been written by Oran Ryan and will be performed by Noel Ó Briain (Narrator), ... (more)Raven (Rocinante) and Eamonn Lynskey(Dead Corpse). Vulture 1 is Nicola Watson. Sets are by Colm Desmond (www.colmdesmond.ie), Stage management by Craig Kavanagh, Lighting by Mike Donoghue This will last approximately 30 minutes. After a short interval Ross Hattaway, Eamon Lynskey, Noel Ó Briain and Raven will perform a poetry reading also on the theme of Heroes and anti-heroes. This will take approximately 20 minutes. Oran Ryan is a novelist, poet, playwright, screenwriter and literary critic from Portobello in Dublin. His work has been published all over the world, and performed in Ireland and New York. His novels The Death of Finn and Ten Short Novels by Arthur Kruger were published in 2006. Seamus Cashman , (author, poet and founder of one of Ireland’s leading literary and cultural publishing houses, Wolfhound Press ) described Oran as “a new and powerful voice in Irish literature”. He praised The Death of Finn for “the fine detail of the writing, and the clarity and simplicity of expression and phraseology” and described it as “a serious and entertaining and perceptive novel of relationships and ideas and a book which will hold readers enthralled and awakened as they journey through it.” Writer and actor Frank Kelly, who launched Ten Short Novels by Arthur Kruger, described it as a stimulating, enjoyable and challenging novel “that made me chuckle with its wry Beckett-like humour. Noel Ó Briain is a poet, playwright, actor, director and producer, living in Camolin, Co Wexford. Noel was born in Tralee Co Kerry in 1933. He has worked as a civil servant, an actor, a theatre, radio and television producer/director and a designer and was Head of Drama for RTE for a period up to 1988. His first collection of poetry Scattering Day, 21 Sonnets and other Poems, published by Seven Towers. Noel is currently working on a play - She which is a translation and adaptation of Brian Merriman's Cuirt on Mhean Oiche, a film script, with the working title of Mud, and a collection of humorous poems, Closet Poet. He has also completed a short verse play inspired by Synge's Deirdre of The Sorrows, entitled Áinle and Árdán Are Already Dead. Noel has produced and directed many plays in the Damer Hall under the auspices of Gael Linn. Among others these included Gunna Cam agus Slabhra Óir by Seán Ó Tuama and Aggiornamento by Chriostóir Ó Floinn. He also designed the sets for these and many other production. He has directed Ulick O'Connor's Noh Plays at The Project. As a Radio Producer his drama productions have been selected as RTE's entries for the Prix Italia. He has won a National Jacob's Award for his production and adaptation of Seán Ó Tuama's Judas Iscariot agus a Bhean. He has worked as Producer, Director, Series Producer and Script Editor in numerous television one-offs, series and serial drama, often combining several of these skills in one production. These have included The Riordans, Bracken (which launched the career of Gabriel Byrne) Glenroe and Ros na Rún among many others. He also produced and directed the controversial series The Spike until it was withdrawn by RTE itself after complaints from the League of Decency and State interference. He has won the Celtic Film Festival Drama Award for his production of Tom Murphy's screenplay, Brigit. Eamonn Lynskey is a Dublin poet well known as a performance and a political poet. He 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 features in the 2009 OXFAM calendar. His first collection Dispatches and Recollections was published in 1998 and his second will be published by Seven Towers in Winter 2009. As well as writing in English, Eamonn has also translated works of Italian poets Montale and Valeri and written in Italian – he holds, (among other qualifications!) a Diploma in Italian Language and Culture from the Italian Institute, Dublin. Raven hails from San Francisco. A mesmeric live poet at the very top of his game who has shared the stage with the very best, including American poet Saul Williams, he world premier live literature and spoken work artist. Raven is a native Californian and perfected his skill at the seminal Sacred Grounds Poetry, San Francisco immediately prior to relocating to Dublin in May 2005. Ross Hattaway is a New Zealand born Irish poet. Ross’ first collection The Gentle Art of Rotting was published by Seven Towers in 2006. Ross’ work has been published all over the world and translated into Lithuanian. In 2008 he was the first Irish poet to be invited as a featured guest at the International Poetry Spring Festival in Lithuania. He was also the featured guest at the Live Poetry Society in Sydney in July 2009.

Oran Ryan and Ross Hattaway will be reading their own work and that of Doog Wood and Ray Pospisil Ross Hattaway is a New Zealand born Irish poet. Ross' first collection The Gentle Art of Rotting was published by Seven Towers in 2006. Ross' work has been published all over the world and he has taken part ... (more)in readings all over the world. In 2008 he was the first Irish poet to be invited as a featured guest at the International Poetry Spring Festival in Lithuania. He also guested at the Live Poet's Society Reading in Sydney in July 2008, and Manhattan’s East Village Saturn Sessions in June 2009. Ray Pospisil, a Brooklyn based poet and journalist, was born in Bogota, Colombia, and early in his life moved with his parents to Union, New Jersey. He spent most of his life in New York City. Ray died tragically on January 28, 2008, aged 54. His p osthumous poetry collection, The Bell, is a book of remarkable precision, feeling, and sense of beauty among the squalor of urban life in the early twenty-first century. Oran Ryan is a novelist, poet and playwright from Dublin. He has had poems, short stories and literary critical articles published in various magazines. His first two novels, The Death of Finn and Ten Short Novels by Arthur Kruger were published by Seven Towers in 2006. He has a play Don Quixote has Benn Promoted in the up coming Ranelagh Arts Festival. Oran won a 2008 Arts Council Bursary Award for his current novel New Order from Zero. Doog Wood was born in Jackson County, North Carolina and has spent his life living between North Carolina, New York, Dublin and Morocc o. He has an MFA from Columbia University in New York and currently lives between New York and Dublin, Ireland, where he teaches Latin in Trinity College. Doog is married to Jennifer Lyons and they have one son Thaddeus.

The Last Wednesday Series Reading and Open Mike is running simultaneously in Cassidy’s Bar, Westmoreland St, Dublin 2 and Rocky Sullivan’s, Red Hook, Brooklyn, New York City on the last Wednesday of every month. We believe this exciting event will help to establish an ongoing sharing and twinning ... (more)relationship between the vibrant writing scenes in both communities and also provide an established space in Dublin for writers visiting from America and in New York for Irish writers visiting there. We would like to thank Fáilte Ireland for their help and encouragement in this venture. Details are available at www.seventowers.ie Any visiting writers wishing to attend and/or writers wishing to publicise their books at either event can contact Seven Towers at lastwednesday@seventowers.ie in advance of the event and their details will be circulated with event publicity notices. Each venue, Cassidy’s Bar and Rocky Sullivan’s give their space free of charge to this event, so we encourage you to support them. There is a full bar, including soft dinks and tea/coffee available and each venue also have good food menus. We encourage all patrons to drink sensibly.

Both Sides of the Pond Reading of Irish, American and Canadian writers, reading work from both sides of the pond, about both sides of the pond!! Some the featured American and Canadian writers will live in Ireland, many of the featured Irish writers will have lived in America. Readers are Californian ... (more)poet Lynne Knight, Dublin writer Oran Ryan, New Zealand born Dublin writer, Ross Hattaway, Canadian writer and model Roslyn Fuller, Dublin poet Eamonn Lynskey, Dublin poet Catherine Ann Cullen. Other names will be added to the list as they are confirmed. Lynne Knight: Lynne Knight is the author of four full-length collections, the most recent of which is Again, published by Sixteen Rivers Press in 2009. Dissolving Borders won a Quarterly Review of Literature prize in 1996; The Book of Common Betrayals won the Dorothy Brunsman Award from Bear Star Press in 2002; and Night in the Shape of a Mirror was published by David Robert Books in 2006. She has also published three prize-winning chapbooks, Deer in Berkeley (Sow’s Ear Press), Life as Weather (Two Rivers Review), and Defying the Flat Surface (The Ledge Press). A cycle of poems on Impressionist winter paintings, Snow Effects, appeared from Small Poetry Press as part of its Select Poets Series and has been translated into French by Nicole Courtet. Knight lives in Berkeley, California. Her work has appeared in a number of journals, including Beloit Poetry Journal, Kenyon Review, New England Review, Ontario Review, Poetry, and Southern Review. One of her poems appears in Best American Poetry 2000, selected by Rita Dove. Among her awards are the Theodore Roethke Award from Poetry Northwest, the Theodore Christian Hoepfner Award from Southern Humanities Review, the Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, and an NEA grant. Oran Ryan Oran Ryan is Dublin novelist, playwright, poet and screenwriter. In 2008 he won an Arts Council Bursary award for his current project New Order from Zero. His published works are The Death of Finn and Ten Short Novels by Arthur Kruger. The Death of Finn concerns the sudden and untimely death of Joe Finn, a brilliant and eccentric young monk, and traces the impact of his death on the people around him, in particular his one-time best friend Frank, himself an ex-monk. The Death of Finn is a love story and a story of friendship. This beautifully written novel traces the relationship between Frank Ryan and Joe Finn, and the effect that this relationship, Finn's life and death has on Frank and on other people in their lives. It explores love and its absence as well as the power of institutions over individual relationships. Finn manages to be a truly Irish book while simultaneously evoking an internationally recognisable sense of place. It is also evocative of the past while being truly modern. Resplendent with beautiful one-liners and carefully drawn characters, it is sure to become and to remain one of the classics of Irish literature as Oran Ryan will become and remain on of its voices. Underlying the main text of The Death of Finn is a sub-text concerning a book, Giovanni Seipi at Home that the main character of the novel, Joe Finn, has himself written. In a unique venture, Seven Towers Ltd has produced a miniature version of extracts from this book to accompany the publication of The Death of Finn, Extracts from "Giovanni Seipi at Home". This miniature book is in the form of an academic biography and is written in the voice of Joe Finn. "Oran is a new and powerful voice in Irish literature". Seamus Cashman Seamus also praised The Death of Finn for "the fine detail of the writing, and the clarity and simplicity of expression and phraseology" and described it as "a serious and entertaining and perceptive novel of relationships and ideas and a book which will hold readers enthralled and awakened as they journey through it". "Ryan brings a self-assured tone to this his debut novel" Sunday Tribune "The Death of Finn succeeds well as a study of the search for faith and the inner workings of monasticism as seen from the Irish Catholic viewpoint, while also addressing the question of honesty with self and with others" Book View Ireland, Irish Emigrant (www.emigrant.ie). Ten Short Novels by Arthur Kruger is Oran Ryan's second novel. This novel circumvents the natural order of novel writing as it is written in a cubistic format and the series of short novels contained within the novel are written by the hero of the novel himself, rather than the real-life author. Each chapter takes a different life, giving ten different perspectives on Arthur Kruger, some as lived by Kruger after he kills himself and inexplicably finds himself alive after being hit by a train. Exploring themes like life, love and the after-life, Kruger, as the author, challenges the reader to question their understanding of existence. Ten Short Novels can be read as a possible journey into a mind in the grip of a breakdown or the fictional autobiography of a man who kills himself and inexplicably finds himself still alive. Whichever way the reader experiences it, living life will never be the same again after reading Ten Short Novels by Arthur Kruger. Writer and actor Frank Kelly, who launched the novel, described it as a stimulating, enjoyable and challenging novel "that made me chuckle with its wry Beckett-like humour." Ross Hattaway Ross Hattaway's first collection of poetry, The Gentle Art of Rotting, is a collection of 'High Country' poetry, reflecting the dichotomy of the New Zealand High Country where starkness and beauty, economy and expression, machismo and inner sensitivity exist in a symbiotic yet sometimes uneasy relationship. Moving and humorous, these arresting poems reflect the origins and upbringing of the poet and the psychic landscape of New Zealand. Beneath the spare, crystalline phrasing and economic use of language, Ross' poems hold a wealth of meaning and poignancy and reflect the experience of many men who are forced to trade their inner sensitivity for survival in a world of macho values. The poems come out of Ross' own personal experience growing up in New Zealand where, for instance, he bought his country music albums in secret in brown paper bags, lest his contemporaries realise what he was purchasing! Ross Hattaway was born in New Zealand and has lived in Ireland since 1990. He has published poetry in periodicals and collections, including Writings (Wellington), Life Beyond the Louvres (Northern Territory Anthology), Poetry Australia. His readings include the Poetry Ireland Introduction Series, Anna Livia FM and Between the Lines (Belfast). The Gentle Art of Rotting is his first collection. 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. An employee of the Department of Health and Children, he is currently on secondment to the HSE. "An exciting new collection of poetry" Sunday Independent Roslyn Fuller Roslyn Fuller was born and raised in Ontario, Canada. As a teenager she moved to Germany where she studied law at the prestigious Georg-August-Universitaet in Goettingen. After passing the First Bar Exam, she took a position at the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Dublin, and a post as a PhD student at Trinity College. She continues to live in Dublin and in addition to her studies she also works as a model. She self-published her first book, ISAK, in 2005 which has sold hundreds of copies around the world. She is currently working on her second novel, Frustration of a Line. In addition she writes a substantial amount of legal non-fiction and has had articles published in major legal journals. She also gives seminars in public international law at Trinity College. Roslyn co-founded the Irish Writers’ Exchange in 2008 and currently contributes to a weekly book review column in Metro Eireann. Eamonn Lynskey 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 will feature on the 2009 OXFAM calendar. His first collection Dispatches and Recollections was published in 1998 and he is currently working on his second. Eamonn’s work is also featured in Census, The First Seven Towers Anthology. Eamonn has also translated works of Italian poets Montale and Valeri and written in Italian – he holds a Diploma in Italian Lauguage and Culture from the Italian Institute, Dublin. His nest collection And Suddenly the Sun Again will be published by Seven Towers in Winter 2009/2010. Catherine Ann Cullen Catherine Ann Cullen was born in Drogheda, Co Louth. She is a regular contributor to RTE Radio 1’s Sunday Miscellany and A Living Word as well as producing current affairs, arts and features. She lives with her partner Harry and daughter Stella in Kimmage, Dublin. Her first collection, A Bone in My Throat, is published by Doghouse. Barbara Smith: Barbara is an essayist, artist poet and teacher, originally from Armagh in Northern Ireland she now lives in Dundalk. Her critically acclaimed collection Kairos was published by Doghouse in 2007 and she is currently working on her second collection. Celeste Auge Celeste Auge was born in Canada and grew up between Canada and Galway, Ireland. She published a chapbook with lapwing in 2007 and her first full collection has just been published by Salmon Books. Anamaria Crowe Serrano Anamaria is a poet and translator, she has published a number of book, including translations and non fiction. Her first full length collection of her own work is her latest publication and is called Femispheres. 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 has just been published by Salmon.

The Last Wednesday Series Reading and Open Mike is running simultaneously in Cassidy’s Bar, Westmoreland St, Dublin 2 and Rocky Sullivan’s, Red Hook, Brooklyn, New York City on the last Wednesday of every month. We believe this exciting event will help to establish an ongoing sharing and twinning ... (more)relationship between the vibrant writing scenes in both communities and also provide an established space in Dublin for writers visiting from America and in New York for Irish writers visiting there. We would like to thank Fáilte Ireland for their help and encouragement in this venture. Details are available at www.seventowers.ie Any visiting writers wishing to attend and/or writers wishing to publicise their books at either event can contact Seven Towers at lastwednesday@seventowers.ie in advance of the event and their details will be circulated with event publicity notices. Each venue, Cassidy’s Bar and Rocky Sullivan’s give their space free of charge to this event, so we encourage you to support them. There is a full bar, including soft dinks and tea/coffee available and each venue also have good food menus. We encourage all patrons to drink sensibly.

Poetry Reading Ross Hattaway is originally from New Zealand. He has been living in Dublin since 1990 and is an Irish citizen. He has read all over the world, including Australia, New Zealand and New York and in 2008 he was the first Irish poet to guest at the Poetry Spring Festival in Lithuania. His ... (more)collection The Gentle Art of Rotting was published in 2006 Fintan O’Higgins is a poet, playwright and screenwriter. Born in Dublin, Fintan has worked in Ireland and in the UK in television and theatre including working as a scriptwriter for Emmerdale and Fair City. For the last few years he has worked at the Theatre Writing Partnership in Nottingham and we are delighted to welcome him back into the Irish reading scene. Fintan’s work is included in Census, The First Seven Towers Anthology.

Seven Towers Themed Reading to celebrate Bloomsday

This is a reading and open mic event that is a transatlantic literary event, occuring onthe same night in cassidys bar in Dublin Ireland and in Rocky Sullivans in Red Hook in Brooklyn. All are welcome to read and all readers can submit their work for publication in Census - the Seven Towers anthology ... (more)of work read at the open mic event. more information is available from www.seventowers.ie and info@seventowers.ie

Reading and open mic with Steve Conway, Ross Hattaway, Eamonn Lynskey, Donal Moloney, Noel Ó Briain, Oran Ryan and others.

Reading and open mic with Steve Conway, Ross Hattaway, Eamonn Lynskey, Donal Moloney, Noel Ó Briain, Oran Ryan.

My Love is Like . . . Chapters and Verse Valentines Reading 6.30 on Thursday 12th February, Chapters of Parnell St, Dublin 1 Listen to Irish Writers read from work about Love – a perfect romantic prelude to a weekend of love and romance!

Ross Hattaway is a New Zealand born Irish poet. Ross' first collection The Gentle Art of Rotting was published by Seven Towers in 2006. Ross' work has been published all over the world and he has taken part in readings all over the world. In 2008 he was the first Irish poet to be invited as a featured ... (more)guest at the International Poetry Spring Festival in Lithuania. He also read at the Live Poet's Society Reading in Sydney in July 2008. He took part in Poetry Ireland's Introductory Series in 2001 and since then has taken part in many festivals throughout Ireland including Killarney Summerfest, Samhlaiocht Festivals, Temple Bar Diversions Festival, Greystones Festival as well as the Chapters and Verse Reading Series. 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 will feature on the 2009 OXFAM calendar. His first collection Dispatches and Recollections was published in 1998 and he is currently working on his second. As well as writing in English, Eamonn has also translated works of Italian poets Montale and Valeri and written in Italian – he holds, (among other qualifications!) a Diploma in Italian Lauguage and Culture from the Italian Institute, Dublin. €1 from every copy of Census, The First Seven Towers Anthology book sold as will be donated to AWARE.

Sea on Stage A reading in aid of RNLI 3pm on Saturday 31st January In the Gallery, Pavilion Theatre, Dun Laoghaire with: Phantom 105.2 FM, and former Radio Caroline DJ, Steve Conway and New Zealand poet Ross Hattaway Steve Conway: Dublin based Steve Conway is currently a DJ on Phantom 105.2FM and a former ... (more)stalwart of that epic journey on that Good Ship that housed Radio Caroline. The Seven Towers Agency has signed to representing Steve for his wonderful memoir of his time on Radio Caroline. Steve's memoir gives us a behind the scene, fly on the wall look at the piece of cultural and broadcasting history that is Radio Caroline on its stormy journey through the 1980s until it ran aground at the end of that decade. Steve’s memoir of those stormy days, Shiprocked: Life on the Waves with Radio Caroline will be published by Liberties Press (www.libertiespress.ie) on 31 March 2009 and has already been cited as a one to watch for 2009 by both The Irish Times and The Irish Independent. Ross Hattaway was born in New Zealand and has lived in Ireland since 1990. He has published poetry in periodicals and collections, including Writings (Wellington), Life Beyond the Louvres (Northern Territory Anthology), Poetry Australia. His readings include the Poetry Ireland Introduction Series, Anna Livia FM and Between the Lines (Belfast). The Gentle Art of Rotting is his first collection. 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. Admission to the event is free and attendees will be invited to make a donation to the RNLI as part of the RNLI SOS Fundraising weekend. The RNLI is the charity that provides a 24-hour lifesaving service around the UK and Republic of Ireland.

Reading and open mic with Steve Conway, Ross Hattaway, Eamonn Lynskey, Donal Moloney, Noel Ó Briain, Oran Ryan.

As a sports columnist for a Dublin daily, Eamon Carr watched the unfolding drama of the 2002 World Cup finals firsthand in Japan. Against the intense public spectacle of media attention following the controversial departure of Ireland captain Roy Keane, Carr followed his own private journey - a lifelong ... (more)quest to visit the shrines and places of the famed poet Matsuo Basho, recognized master of haiku. In a volume of spare, elegant prose poetry and his own haiku chronicling impressions and revelations of that journey, Carr explores the deep interrelationships found within the contrasts of ancient and modern, nation and individual, crowd and solitude, loss and victory in a work that is at once a poetry collection, a travel journal and a sports commentary – with a little music as well. This is Eamon Carr's first collection of poetry and the profundity and depth of the work is a just reward for the long wait. This is an exciting book because of the beauty of the work itself, and its significance as another
important milestone in the work of a great artist and a man who truly has the soul of a poet. The book is part poetry collection, part travel log and part Eamon's commentary and insight into the Roy Keane/Mick McCarthy 'debacle'. And some of our current heroes (Robbie Keane, Damien Duff and Shay Given) are in there as well!!

The book has already been receiving a lot of publicity - Herald, Independent, Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, Sunday Tribune, Newstalk, Mooney (RTE Radio 1). There are some further TV and radio appearances as well as magazine and newspaper features and all this before most reviews are in !! John Waters has said about the book that "I can't praise it enough". He has also said he want to start a campaign to put the book at the top of the best seller list!!

Eamon Carr is a significant figure in the Irish artistic and cultural scene for many years. In the late 1960s he co-founded Tara Telephone, the music and poetry group of the Dublin beat scene. Tara Telephone published everyone from Marc Bolan to Allan Ginsberg, Brian Patten, Seamus Heaney, Pearse Hutchinson, Eilean Ni Chuilleanain, Brendan Kennelly, Adrian Mitchell, Pete Brown in their magazines and broadsheets. And among those who read with Tara Telephone, in addition to Eamon and Peter Fallon were Philip Lynott and Roger McGough. Following on from Tara Telephone, in the 1970's Eamon co-founded Horslips, the hugely influential band which is credited with creating the musical genre known as Celtic Rock, and in which he is also a drummer, conceptualist and lyricist. Eamon has also promoted musicians and artists, and works as a journalist, writer and commentator on culture, politics, arts, music and sport as well as an award winning broadcaster. He was born in Co. Meath and lives in Dublin.
"I can't praise it enough. I would like to start a campaign to put this on the top of the best seller list - where Eamon Carr belongs" John Waters
"It's great" Stuart Clarke, Hot Press
"witty and very readable tome." Eugene Masterson, The Sunday World

Steve Conway:
Dublin based Steve Conway is currently a DJ on Phantom 105.2FM and a former stalwart of that epic journey on that Good Ship that housed Radio Caroline. The Seven Towers Agency has signed to representing Steve for his wonderful memoir of his time on Radio Caroline. Steve's memoir gives us a behind the scene, fly on the wall look at the piece of cultural and broadcasting history that is Radio Caroline on its stormy journey through the 1980s until it ran aground at the end of that decade.

Catherine Ann Cullen was born in Drogheda, Co Louth. She is a regular contributor to RTE Radio 1’s Sunday Miscellany and A Living Word as well as producing current affairs, arts and features. She lives with her partner Harry and daughter Stella in Kimmage, Dublin. Her first collection, A Bone in My Throat, is published by Doghouse.

Ross Hattaway's first collection of poetry is a collection of 'High Country' poetry, reflecting the dichotomy of the New Zealand High Country where starkness and beauty, economy and expression, machismo and inner sensitivity exist in a symbiotic yet sometimes uneasy relationship. Moving and humorous, these arresting poems reflect the origins and upbringing of the poet and the psychic landscape of New Zealand. Beneath the spare, crystalline phrasing and economic use of language, Ross' poems hold a wealth of meaning and poignancy and reflect the experience of many men who are forced to trade their inner sensitivity for survival in a world of macho values. The poems come out of Ross' own personal experience growing up in New Zealand where, for instance, he bought his country music albums in secret in brown paper bags, lest his contemporaries realise what he was purchasing!

Ross Hattaway was born in New Zealand and has lived in Ireland since 1990. He has published poetry in periodicals and collections, including Writings (Wellington), Life Beyond the Louvres (Northern Territory Anthology), Poetry Australia. His readings include the Poetry Ireland Introduction Series, Anna Livia FM and Between the Lines (Belfast). The Gentle Art of Rotting is his first collection. 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.

"An exciting new collection of poetry" Sunday Independent

Eamon 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 will feature on the 2009 OXFAM calendar. His first collection Dispatches and Recollections was published in 1998 and he is currently working onhis second. As well as writing in English, Eamonn has also translated works of Italian poets Montale and Valeri and written in Italian – he holds, (among other qualifications!) a Diploma in Italian Lauguage and Culture from the Italian Institute, Dublin.

Dónal Moloney was born in 1976 and comes from Waterford. He has been writing seriously for ten years, during which time he has written a novel, several novellas and many short stories and poems. He is currently completing a collection of three novellas. He works as a freelance translator and lives in Dublin. He is a regular featured reader at both Chapters and Verse Reading Series and The Last Wednesday Reading and Open Mic Series. Donal is represented by The Seven Towers Agency.

Noel Ó Briain was born in Kerry, grew up in Dublin and now lives in Camolin, Wexford. He is a playwright and poet and a former head of drama at RTE. He has worked for many years in theatre, radio and television as an actor, producer/director, designer and script editor. into English as The Hostage and staged at The Royal Theatre Stratford by Joan Littlewood. He has produced and directed many plays in the Damer Hall under the auspices of Gael Linn. Among others these included Gunna Cam agus Slabhra Óir by Seán Ó Tuama and Aggiornamento by Chriostóir Ó Floinn. He also designed the sets for these and many other productions. He has directed Ulick O'Connor's Noh Plays at The Project. As a Radio Producer his drama productions have been selected as RTE's entries for the Prix Italia. He has won a National Jacob's Award for his production and adaptation of Seán Ó Tuama's Judas Iscariot agus a Bhean. He has worked as Producer, Director, Series Producer and Script Editor in numerous television one-offs, series and serial drama, often combining several of these skills in one production. These have included The Riordans, Bracken (which launched the career of Gabriel Byrne) Glenroe and Ros na Rún among many others. He also produced and directed the controversial series The Spike until it was withdrawn by RTE itself after complaints from the League of Decency and State interference. He has participated in a documentary in the Scannal series on RTE which deals with well known Irish scandals – including The Spike! (to be transmitted in Autumn 2008). He has won the Celtic Film Festival Drama Award for his production of Tom Murphy's screenplay, Brigit. His poetry and short stories have been published in a number of literary magazines including The Kilkenny Magazine and Poetry Ireland. They have also been broadcast on radio in the short story slot and on Sunday Miscellany. Noel has completed Land of She a hilarious adapted for theatre translation of Brian Merriman's Cuirt on Mhean Oiche written for five parts. He has also completed a short verse play inspired by Synge's Deirdre of The Sorrows, entitled Áinle and Árdán Are Already Dead.

Writer, actor, artist and activist Gerard Mannix Flynn said of Scattering Day, that "We are lucky today to have such a collection of work at our disposal. The poems are prayers, meditations for the every moment. I always think that when you pick up a poem to read it you're accepting help in your struggle in life. Make sure that when you reach out that one of Noel Ó Briain's poems is within reach"

Oran Ryan is Dublin novelist, playwright, poet and screenwriter. In 2008 he won an Arts Council Bursary award for his current project New Order from Zero.
Oran's first published novel, The Death of Finn concerns the sudden and untimely death of Joe Finn, a brilliant and eccentric young monk, and traces the impact of his death on the people around him, in particular his one-time best friend Frank, himself an ex-monk. The Death of Finn is a love story and a story of friendship. This beautifully written novel traces the relationship between Frank Ryan and Joe Finn, and the effect that this relationship, Finn's life and death has on Frank and on other people in their lives. It explores love and its absence as well as the power of institutions over individual relationships. Finn manages to be a truly Irish book while simultaneously evoking an internationally recognisable sense of place. It is also evocative of the past while being truly modern. Resplendent with beautiful one-liners and carefully drawn characters, it is sure to become and to remain one of the classics of Irish literature as Oran Ryan will become and remain on of its voices. Underlying the main text of The Death of Finn is a sub-text concerning a book, Giovanni Seipi at Home that the main character of the novel, Joe Finn, has himself written. In a unique venture, Seven Towers Ltd has produced a miniature version of extracts from this book to accompany the publication of The Death of Finn, Extracts from "Giovanni Seipi at Home". This miniature book is in the form of an academic biography and is written in the voice of Joe Finn.
"Oran is a new and powerful voice in Irish literature". Seamus Cashman
Seamus also praised The Death of Finn for "the fine detail of the writing, and the clarity and simplicity of expression and phraseology" and described it as "a serious and entertaining and perceptive novel of relationships and ideas and a book which will hold readers enthralled and awakened as they journey through it".
"Ryan brings a self-assured tone to this his debut novel" Sunday Tribune
"The Death of Finn succeeds well as a study of the search for faith and the inner workings of monasticism as seen from the Irish Catholic viewpoint, while also addressing the question of honesty with self and with others" Book View Ireland, Irish Emigrant (www.emigrant.ie).
Ten Short Novels by Arthur Kruger is Oran Ryan's second novel. This novel circumvents the natural order of novel writing as it is written in a cubistic format and the series of short novels contained within the novel are written by the hero of the novel himself, rather than the real-life author. Each chapter takes a different life, giving ten different perspectives on Arthur Kruger, some as lived by Kruger after he kills himself and inexplicably finds himself alive after being hit by a train. Exploring themes like life, love and the after-life, Kruger, as the author, challenges the reader to question their understanding of existence. Ten Short Novels can be read as a possible journey into a mind in the grip of a breakdown or the fictional autobiography of a man who kills himself and inexplicably finds himself still alive. Whichever way the reader experiences it, living life will never be the same again after reading Ten Short Novels by Arthur Kruger.
Writer and actor Frank Kelly, who launched the novel, described it as a stimulating, enjoyable and challenging novel "that made me chuckle with its wry Beckett-like humour."

Barbara Smith holds a BA Hons. Literature just completed, 2007; and will continue with Queen's University Belfast, with a MA in Creative Writing. Her debut collection of poetry, Kairos, is just published by Doghouse Books. She has poetry and essays published widely and lives in Dundalk, with her partner and six children. Other publications include Poetic Stage (1998).Barbara blogs at http://intendednot2b.blogspot.com/

Doog Wood:
Doog Wood is a Dublin based poet from North Carolina. His poetry has been widely published in journals and anthologies. His first full collection will be published by The Seven Towers Agency in 2009.

Ross Hattaway,
The Gentle Art of Rotting by Ross Hattaway HB 978-0-9552757-7-7 €20; PB 978-0-9552757-4-6 €15
Ross Hattaway's first collection of poetry is a collection of 'High Country' poetry, reflecting the dichotomy of the New Zealand High Country where starkness and beauty, economy and ... (more)expression, machismo and inner sensitivity exist in a symbiotic yet sometimes uneasy relationship. Moving and humorous, these arresting poems reflect the origins and upbringing of the poet and the psychic landscape of New Zealand. Beneath the spare, crystalline phrasing and economic use of language, Ross' poems hold a wealth of meaning and poignancy and reflect the experience of many men who are forced to trade their inner sensitivity for survival in a world of macho values. The poems come out of Ross' own personal experience growing up in New Zealand where, for instance, he bought his country music albums in secret in brown paper bags, lest his contemporaries realise what he was purchasing!

Ross Hattaway was born in New Zealand and has lived in Ireland since 1990. He has published poetry in periodicals and collections, including Writings (Wellington), Life Beyond the Louvres (Northern Territory Anthology), Poetry Australia. His readings include the Poetry Ireland Introduction Series, Anna Livia FM and Between the Lines (Belfast). The Gentle Art of Rotting is his first collection. 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.

"An exciting new collection of poetry" Sunday Independent

Dublin poet Jean O’Brien is founder member of the Dublin Writers’ Workshop, her collections are The Shadow Keeper (Cliffs of Moher, Salmon Poetry, 1997); and Dangerous Dresses (Cork, Bradshaw Books, 2005). She lives in Dublin.

Liam Aungier is a poet from Kildare. Twice runner up in the Patrick Kavanagh poetry competition, his debut collection Apples in Winter was published by Doghouse.

Steve Conway:
Dublin based Steve Conway is currently a DJ on Phantom 105.2FM and a former stalwart of that epic journey on that ... (more)Good Ship that housed Radio Caroline. The Seven Towers Agency has signed to representing Steve for his wonderful memoir of his time on Radio Caroline. Steve's memoir gives us a behind the scene, fly on the wall look at the piece of cultural and broadcasting history that is Radio Caroline on its stormy journey through the 1980s until it ran aground at the end of that decade.

Catherine Ann Cullen was born in Drogheda, Co Louth. She is a regular contributor to RTE Radio 1’s Sunday Miscellany and A Living Word as well as producing current affairs, arts and features. She lives with her partner Harry and daughter Stella in Kimmage, Dublin. Her first collection, A Bone in My Throat, is published by Doghouse.

Arts administrator and part-time lecturer, Alan Garvey's work has been published in various magazines and anthologies. He has read in the University of Toronto and at the March Hare Festival, Newfoundland, courtesy of the Arts Council. He lives in Carlow with his wife, Tara and son, Keir. His first full collection, Herself in Air (2006), was published by Lapwing Publications, Belfast. His second, Learning To Crawl (also on Lapwing) was released in the spring of 2008. Due to graduate from WIT's MA in Creative Writing programme this year.

Ross Hattaway's first collection of poetry is a collection of 'High Country' poetry, reflecting the dichotomy of the New Zealand High Country where starkness and beauty, economy and expression, machismo and inner sensitivity exist in a symbiotic yet sometimes uneasy relationship. Moving and humorous, these arresting poems reflect the origins and upbringing of the poet and the psychic landscape of New Zealand. Beneath the spare, crystalline phrasing and economic use of language, Ross' poems hold a wealth of meaning and poignancy and reflect the experience of many men who are forced to trade their inner sensitivity for survival in a world of macho values. The poems come out of Ross' own personal experience growing up in New Zealand where, for instance, he bought his country music albums in secret in brown paper bags, lest his contemporaries realise what he was purchasing!

Ross Hattaway was born in New Zealand and has lived in Ireland since 1990. He has published poetry in periodicals and collections, including Writings (Wellington), Life Beyond the Louvres (Northern Territory Anthology), Poetry Australia. His readings include the Poetry Ireland Introduction Series, Anna Livia FM and Between the Lines (Belfast). The Gentle Art of Rotting is his first collection. 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.

"An exciting new collection of poetry" Sunday Independent

Dublin poet Anne Morgan has had work in a number of anthologies – including Seven Towers forthcoming Census – and journals.

Noel Ó Briain was born in Kerry, grew up in Dublin and now lives in Camolin, Wexford. He is a playwright and poet and a former head of drama at RTE. He has worked for many years in theatre, radio and television as an actor, producer/director, designer and script editor. into English as The Hostage and staged at The Royal Theatre Stratford by Joan Littlewood. He has produced and directed many plays in the Damer Hall under the auspices of Gael Linn. Among others these included Gunna Cam agus Slabhra Óir by Seán Ó Tuama and Aggiornamento by Chriostóir Ó Floinn. He also designed the sets for these and many other productions. He has directed Ulick O'Connor's Noh Plays at The Project. As a Radio Producer his drama productions have been selected as RTE's entries for the Prix Italia. He has won a National Jacob's Award for his production and adaptation of Seán Ó Tuama's Judas Iscariot agus a Bhean. He has worked as Producer, Director, Series Producer and Script Editor in numerous television one-offs, series and serial drama, often combining several of these skills in one production. These have included The Riordans, Bracken (which launched the career of Gabriel Byrne) Glenroe and Ros na Rún among many others. He also produced and directed the controversial series The Spike until it was withdrawn by RTE itself after complaints from the League of Decency and State interference. He has participated in a documentary in the Scannal series on RTE which deals with well known Irish scandals – including The Spike! (to be transmitted in Autumn 2008). He has won the Celtic Film Festival Drama Award for his production of Tom Murphy's screenplay, Brigit. His poetry and short stories have been published in a number of literary magazines including The Kilkenny Magazine and Poetry Ireland. They have also been broadcast on radio in the short story slot and on Sunday Miscellany. Noel has completed Land of She a hilarious adapted for theatre translation of Brian Merriman's Cuirt on Mhean Oiche written for five parts. He has also completed a short verse play inspired by Synge's Deirdre of The Sorrows, entitled Áinle and Árdán Are Already Dead.

Writer, actor, artist and activist Gerard Mannix Flynn said of Scattering Day, that "We are lucky today to have such a collection of work at our disposal. The poems are prayers, meditations for the every moment. I always think that when you pick up a poem to read it you're accepting help in your struggle in life. Make sure that when you reach out that one of Noel Ó Briain's poems is within reach"

Doog Wood is a Dublin based poet from North Carolina. His poetry has been widely published in journals and anthologies. His first full collection will be published by The Seven Towers Agency in 2009.

Ross Hattaway's first collection of poetry is a collection of 'High Country' poetry, reflecting the dichotomy of the New Zealand High Country where starkness and beauty, economy and expression, machismo and inner sensitivity exist in a symbiotic yet sometimes uneasy relationship. Moving and humorous, ... (more)these arresting poems reflect the origins and upbringing of the poet and the psychic landscape of New Zealand. Beneath the spare, crystalline phrasing and economic use of language, Ross' poems hold a wealth of meaning and poignancy and reflect the experience of many men who are forced to trade their inner sensitivity for survival in a world of macho values. The poems come out of Ross' own personal experience growing up in New Zealand where, for instance, he bought his country music albums in secret in brown paper bags, lest his contemporaries realise what he was purchasing!

Ross Hattaway was born in New Zealand and has lived in Ireland since 1990. He has published poetry in periodicals and collections, including Writings (Wellington), Life Beyond the Louvres (Northern Territory Anthology), Poetry Australia. His readings include the Poetry Ireland Introduction Series, Anna Livia FM and Between the Lines (Belfast). The Gentle Art of Rotting is his first collection. 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.