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Journalist, broadcaster, critic, commentator, musician and poet Eamon Carr will be reading from his latest work The Origami Crow, Journey into Japan, World Cup Summer 2002 at the Seven Towers Event - The Last Wednesday Series Reading and open mic on the 29th October 2008 at Cassidys of Westmoreland St, ... (more)Dublin 2. The event commences at 7.30pm.

As a sports columnist for a Dublin daily, journalist Eamon Carr watched the unfolding drama of the 2002 World Cup finals firsthand in Japan. Yet 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 quest to visit the shrines and places of the famed poet Matsuo Basho, recognized master of haiku.

In a volume of spare, elegant prose and his own haiku chronicling impressions and revelations of that journey, Carr explores the deep interrelationships found within the seeming contrasts of ancient and modern, nation and individual, crowd and solitude, loss and victory. Histories, memories and legends, as well as the wry personal observations of the weary working traveller, merge to create this profoundly moving narrative on the universal nature of grace and redemption.

The Origami Crow: Journey into Japan, World Cup Summer 2002 is Eamon Carr's first collection of poetry and the profundity and depth of the work is a just reward for the long wait. The book is a collection of prose poems and Haiku following Eamon's life experience, his journey into Japan that fateful Summer to follow the footsteps of Basho and is set against the backdrop of the Irish World Cup experience in Japan in Summer 2002. 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.

Eamon Carr has been 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. The group also ran recitals. Among those who read with Tara Telephone, in addition to Eamon and Peter Fallon were Phil Lynott and Roger McGough. With Jim Fitzpatrick, the group also produced specially designed posters with artwork and poems combined. One of these posters with Eamon's poem 'A Tale of Love' was exhibited in the Tate Gallery, Liverpool, Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era Exhibition in 2005 which also toured in Germany and Austria.

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.

Other readers at the event are
Featured Readers: Phantom FM DJ Steve Conway, Waterford writer Donal Moloney, New Zealand born poet Ross Hattaway, Kerry born Wexford based producer, director, actor, playwright and poet Noel Ó Briain, Dublin novelist, poet, playwright and screenwriter Oran Ryan, North Carolina poet Doog Wood, Dublin poet Eamonn Lynskey and poet Patrick Chapman


Patrick Chapman was born in 1968. His poetry collections are Jazztown (Raven Arts Press, Dublin, 1991), The New Pornography (Salmon Poetry, Co. Clare, 1996), Breaking Hearts and Traffic Lights (Salmon Poetry, Co. Clare, 2007) and A Shopping Mall on Mars (BlazeVOX Books, New York, 2008). He has also written a collection of stories, The Wow Signal (Bluechrome, 2007); an audio drama, Doctor Who: Fear of the Daleks; and an award-winning film, Burning the Bed (2003), which starred Gina McKee and Aidan Gillen. He won first prize for a story in the 2003 Cinescape Genre Literary Awards. With Philip Casey, he co-founded the Irish Literary Revival website. He lives in Dublin.
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.
Ross Hattaway was born in Wellington New Zealand, but has lived in Ireland since 1990. He has had many varied jobs and currently works as a civil servant. His first collection of poetry, The Gentle Art of Rotting was published by Seven Towers in 2006. This will be Ross' first reading in Dublin, after touring Lithuania as part of the Poetry Spring Festival 2008 and seeing his work translated into Lithuanian.
Ross Hattaway was born in Wellington New Zealand, but has lived in Ireland since 1990. He has had many varied jobs and currently works as a civil servant. His first collection of poetry, The Gentle Art of Rotting was published by Seven Towers in 2006. This will be Ross' first reading in Dublin, after touring Lithuania as part of the Poetry Spring Festival 2008 and seeing his work translated into Lithuanian


Eamonn 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.

He played the part of Cranly in the premier of Hugh Leonard's Stephen D (an adaptation of Joyce's Portrait of The Artist as a Young Man) at the Gate Theatre. He also played the part of the IRA officer in the premier of Brendan Behan's An Giall in the Damer Hall in Dublin and designed the set for this production. The play was later translated 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 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 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. He has devised and conducted numerous screenwriting courses. Among these was the initial course for the development of new writers for the series Ros na Rún on TG4. He has conducted several screen acting courses both independently and for the Gaiety School of Acting. 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. His poetry collection Scattering Day 21 Sonnets and Other Poems was published by Seven Towers in 2007.Noel has two plays currently completed:
The Land of She: An adapted for theatre translation of Brian Merriman's Cuirt on Mhean Oiche, this hillarious play is 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.

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 is currently working on his fifth novel and had three plays and two screenplays in pre-production. Oran won a 2008 Arts Council Bursary Award.
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.

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

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

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

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

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

Blackdrop is a lively and entertaining group of performing poets of Irish and African descent, based in the UK. Their work is challenging, humorous, revealing, socially observant and human. In September they presented, at the mini-Momentum Theatre Festival in Nottingham, working with Dublin based Raven ... (more)“Irish Roots” -- a spoken-word performance combining poetry and theatre, examining the intersection of their Irish and African heritage; it introduced the audience to thought-provoking experiences and insights from a unique aspect of both the Irish and African diasporas. Now they are bringing their magic to Dublin and will perform with Raven and Paul Casey in Cassidy’s of Westmoreland St, Dublin 2 Bios: Michael McKimm was born in Belfast in 1983 and grew up near the Giant’s Causeway. He graduated from the Warwick Writing Programme in 2004 and won an Eric Gregory Award in 2007. He lives in London, where he works for the Geological Society Library. His poetry is widely published, most recently in Dossier Journal (New York), Magma, Oxford Poetry, PN Review, The Warwick Review and The Wolf. Still This Need, his first full-length collection, was published by Heaventree in 2009. From the wide skies of his native Antrim glens to the secret damp corners of urban England, McKimm’s richly musical verse evokes a haunting landscape against which the intricacies of memory, myth, history and love begin to unfold. “McKimm’s poems get under your skin with their clear, emphatic rhythms and their exploratory soundings of adopted territories as well as personal and public histories and homelands” – Peter Carpenter. Eric Gregory Award winner Jonathan Morley’s debut collection, Backra Man, is available from The Heaventree Press. He is currently editing Derek Walcott’s Collected Early Poetry. His essays have been published in the Oxford Companion to Black British History, Wasafiri and The Warwick Review, while poems appear in Horizon, The Wolf, The Allotment: New Lyric Poetry, edited by Andy Brown (Stride, 2006) and Voice Recognition: 21 Poets for the 21st Century, edited by James Byrne and Clare Pollard (Bloodaxe, 2009). Protean and ebullient, this debut ranges confidently “from the delightfully and deliberately graceless to the coolly satisfying, taking in some streetwise dialect along the way” (Shearsman magazine). “An extraordinary, powerful set of poems, with flashes of brilliance and disturbing, dark currents of perverse and righteous emotions.” ― David Dabydeen Antony Owen is from Coventry, England and is the Commercial Manager for Coventry Rugby Club. His first collection, My Father’s Eyes Were Blue, was published by Heaventree in 2009. His uncompromising sexual and political content has led to him being banned from most US poem-ranker websites, but the shock tactics are deepened and made significant by his fluency with complex, finely wrought images and by the sense of a necessary bleakness, reminiscent of the Mersey Beat poets and their French forebears. 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, the world’s premier live literature and spoken word 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. In Dublin he runs Rá, Ireland’s premier performance poetry event, and his work was published in the recent Seven Towers anthology Census. Paul Casey was born in Cork, Ireland in 1968. He began writing poetry in 1992 and has been reading since 2003 at numerous venues and festivals. Between Ireland, South Africa and other countries he has worked largely in film, multimedia and teaching. He lectured in scriptwriting at the Nelson Mandela University in South Africa, where he convened the Eastern Cape poetry competition. He is the founder and organiser of the weekly Ó Bhéal poetry event in Cork where he now lives. Since his return to Ireland in 2005, Paul's work has begun to appear in Irish journals and a chapbook of his longer poems, It's Not all Bad, was published and launched by Heaventree Press, at the Coventry Literature Festival in May 2009. He is working towards his first full collection.

The Seven Towers Agency have been running the The Last Wednesday Series Reading and Open Mike for almost 3 years in Dublin, where it has been based for the last two years in Cassidy’s Bar. The reading is a showcase event for published writers from Ireland and abroad, (including self publications) with ... (more)an opportunity to publicise and sell books, as well as a combined showcase and peer review event for new and upcoming writers. The Seven Towers Agency publishes an anthology Census which carries the ‘best of’ from this event. The first anthology was published in December 2008 and included the work or more than 30 writers. In addition a number of the writers represented by and/or published by the Seven Towers Agency were discovered at this event – including Steve Conway, author of Shiprocked: Life on the Waves with Radio Caroline and Quincy R Lehr author of the poetry collection Across the Grid of Streets, and current associate editor of The Raintown Review. The Last Wednesday Series Reading and Open Mike is unlike most other events of its type It is run by the Seven Towers Agency which is a literary agency, and publishing house; This event rarely has a feature as such, but rather mixes resident published writers with new-comers; This provides an atmosphere where writers can test new work and learn from each other in a safe peer review atmosphere The Last Wednesday Series welcome readers of all types of literature – poetry, fiction, non-fiction, short drama. Resident Writers at The Last Wednesday Series in Ireland currently include Ross Hattaway, Oran Ryan, Noel Ó Briain, Steve Conway. Resident writers at The Last Wednesday Series in Brooklyn New York will include Quincy R Lehr, R Nemo Hill and Rick Mullin. MC at The Last Wednesday Series in Cassidy’s Bar in Dublin is Declan McLoughlin; MC at The Last Wednesday Series in Rocky Sullivan’s in Brooklyn is Lisa McLaughlin of Rocky Sullivan’s. Other poets who read regularly with the Seven Towers Agency are Catherine Ann Cullen, Barbara Smith, Liam Aungier, Patrick Chapman, Seamus Cashman, Hugh McFadden. Rules: In order to make things run more smoothly we do have a small number of rules at Last Wednesday Series Reading and Open Mike: 1. Absolutely no heckling. Reading your work can be a daunting experience and the Seven Towers is serious about establishing a safe place for writers to do this, and we are equally serious about encouraging new writers; 2. No stand-up comedy or music. We believe that these are already served sufficiently by open mikes and want The Last Wednesday Series to remain dedicated to literature. Structure:Both events will commence at 7.30pm local time. 3. 3. Those wishing to read will sign in – indicating the nature of their material (i.e. poetry, prose, drama). These will then be allotted time slots and will read alongside resident readers who will also be allotted timeslots across the evening. PLEASE NOTE: Any visiting writers wishing to attend and/or writers wishing to publicise their books at either event can contact Seven Towers at lastwednesday@seventowers.ieThis e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it in advance of the event and their details will be circulated with event publicity notices.

Quincy R Lehr will launch this posthomous debut collection by his late friend. Ray Pospisil is a New York metrical poet. Ray’s work was introduced to the Last Wednesday Series by Ray’s great friend Quincy R Lehr. Ray died tragically in January 2008, before he got to see his work in print as a full ... (more)collection. The Bell is the collection of Ray’s work as originally submitted to Seven Towers in 2007 and it is a collection of poetry that is a beautiful as it is haunted and as honest as it is haunting. Quincy R Lehr was born in Oklahoma and has made his home in Dublin and Galway over the last few years. He currently lives in New York. He has read on both sides of the Atlantic and his collection Across the Grid of Streets was published in 2008. Quincy is also associate editor of The Raintown Review.

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.

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!

Wednesday 28th October last Wednesday Series DUBLIN Reading and Open Mic 7.30pm in Cassidy’s Bar, Westmoreland St Cassidy's Bar, Westmoreland St, Dublin 2, Our regular reading and open mic with Steve Conway, Ross Hattaway, Eamon Lynskey, Noel O Briain, Oran Ryan among others! And we are delighted to ... (more)have poet, musician, journalist, broadcaster adn author of The Origami Crow, Journey into japan, World Cup Summer 2002, Eamon Carr as our guest reader for this event. Inthe late 1960s, Eamon co-founded Tara Telephone, a poetry group that both performed ad published extensively. Later he co-founded Horslips, the influential folk-rock band in which he is conceptualist, lyricist and drummer. He is also a journalist, writer and commentator on the arts, music and sport. He was born in Co Meath and now lives in Dublin.

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

As part of the Sponsorship through Sales 1000 Book Challenge we are hosting an independents' market for independent publishers, local publications, independent cd releases etc. in Cassidy's Bar in Westmoreland St from 2pm t 6pm each Sunday to Christmas. There will be readings too and maybe even a little ... (more)music! There will be a nominal charge of 5euro for a sales table. Contact 1000bookchallenge@seventowers.ie