Tom Duddy's THE HIDING PLACE on Seamus Heaney Centre Prize for Poetry

Arlen House is delighted to announce that Tom Duddy’s recently published debut poetry collection, The Hiding Place, has been shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Centre Prize for Poetry. The Prize is awarded annually to the writer of the best first collection published in the UK or Ireland in the preceding year.

Tom Duddy is the only Irish author to make the shortlist this year. The Hiding Place has also recently been shortlisted for the Aldeburgh First Collection Award in the UK.

The shortlist for the Seamus Heaney Centre Prize for Poetry:
Tom Duddy, The Hiding Place (Arlen House)
Valerie Duff, To the New World (Salmon Poetry)
Anna Robinson, The Finders of London (Enitharmon Press)
Victor Tapner, Flatlands (Salt Publishing)
Katherine Towers, The Floating Man (Picador)

The winner will be announced on 25 November 2011 at a presentation with John Montague. The Chair of the judges is Professor Harry Clifton, Ireland Chair of Poetry.

The Hiding Place can be purchased from www.Kennys.ie (post-free worldwide), syracuseuniversitypress.syr.edu and amazon.com

www.arlenhouse.blogspot.com

Tom Duddy's "THE HIDING PLACE" on Aldeburgh Shortlist

Arlen House is delighted to announce that Tom Duddy's recently published debut poetry collection, The Hiding Place, has been shortlisted for the prestigious Aldeburgh First Collection Award. Tom is the only Irish author and Arlen House the only Irish publisher to make the shortlist.

Shortlist announced for Aldeburgh First Collection Prize 2011

From 74 entries, the shortlist for the 2011 Aldeburgh First Collection Prize – one of the most influential and established poetry prizes in the UK – highlights five distinctive new voices as ‘ones-to-watch’ amongst the next generation of poets.

The Poetry Trust announced the shortlist today:

Rachael Boast, Sidereal (Picador)
Tom Duddy, The Hiding Place (Arlen House)
Nancy Gaffield, Tokaido Road (CB Editions)
Ed Reiss, Your Sort (Smith Doorstop)
Jacqueline Saphra, The Kitchen of Lovely Contraptions (Flipped Eye Publishing Ltd)

The Hiding Place can be purchased from Kennys.ie, syracuseuniversitypress.syr.edu and amazon.com

Nuala Ní Chonchúir “TO THE WORLD OF MEN, WELCOME” expanded

Following Monday's preview (below) of the front cover of Órfhlaith Foyle’s debut short story collection, Somewhere in Minnesota, here's a sneak preview of the expanded and enlarged paperback edition of Nuala's 2nd short fiction collection, To the World of Men, Welcome, which will be available shortly.

The artwork is by Ireland's most famous woman artist, Pauline Bewick, and is entitled "Lovers and Feathers". See www.paulinebewick.ie

Geraldine Mitchell “WORLD WITHOUT MAPS” Readings

Geraldine’s upcoming readings from World Without Maps, her Patrick Kavanagh award-winning poetry collection.

Wednesday 17 August, SLIGO
The reading takes place in Nazareth House, Church Hill, Sligo at 7pm to celebrate the launch of the Sligo Poets’ 2012 calendar.

Monday 5 September, CORK
Reading at Ó Bhéal, upstairs at The Long Valley, Winthrop Street, Cork, from 9pm.
Before her reading, Geraldine will be giving a “wordshop” on language and poetry, beginning at 7pm.
“Seamus Heaney has called poetry ‘language in orbit’, so let’s look at ways to get lift-off. With exercises and triggers I’ll aim to have participants take language by surprise, and hopefully surprise themselves while they’re at it”. [Cost €15 (€12 concession). For further details contact Paul on 085 712 6299 or email Ó Bhéal, www.obheal.ie.

Monday 19 September, CLIFDEN ARTS FESTIVAL
Geraldine will read with Dublin poet Shirley McClure.

And a free to view reading in London, on the outside wall of the Queen Elizabeth Hall. It is one of ten poems chosen as part of the 60th Anniversary Celebrations of the Festival of Britain. This poem, ‘Flotilla’, first appeared in the Derry-based journal Abridged and is representing Northern Ireland at the South Bank Centre.



Flotilla
‘Heaven Scent’ Magnolia

They tack in, full rig, under cover of darkness,
dock before dawn in cement-paved ports

at wharves of picket fence. The voyage
has been long through winter’s bald estates,

gusting grit and dust have shred their sails
to votive rags, bound now to every leafless branch.

Waxen petals blood-tinged white
glow like manna at first light.

Órfhlaith Foyle "SOMEWHERE IN MINNESOTA"

Arlen House is delighted to give a sneak preview of the front cover of Órfhlaith Foyle's stunning debut short fiction collection, Somewhere in Minnesota.

Further details to come

Nell Regan "Bound for Home" launch reading

ARLEN HOUSE and the IRISH WRITERS’ CENTRE warmly invite you to a launch reading by Nell Regan from

Bound for Home
Poetry by Nell Regan, Artwork by Monica Boyle

Wednesday 24 August @ 7pm

Irish Writers’ Centre
19 Parnell Square
Dublin 1

RSVP: Alan Hayes, Publisher, Arlen House. Phone: 086 8207617; Email: arlenhouse@gmail.com

Celebrating James Liddy: "Selected Poems" launch

Tuesday 28 June at 7pm, Irish Writers' Centre, 19 Parnell Square, Dublin 1

Arlen House and the Irish Writers’ Centre reflect on the work of this very influential poet.

James Liddy was born in Dublin in 1934 and started publishing with Dolmen Press in the early 1960s. He was a Professor in the English Department at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee for many years, teaching creative writing as well as Irish and Beat literature. James Liddy passed away on 5 November 2008 following a short illness.

Over a fifty-year career he published dozens of collections, pamphlets, limited editions, and ephemera from which poet John Redmond has chosen James Liddy's Selected Poems. The launch of this new collection gives focus to this celebration of Liddy's life and work.

Some colleagues, contemporaries, students, friends, and fans will read from the Selected Poems and reflect on James Liddy's contributions to the Irish literary canon. All are welcome.