Friday, November 8, 2013

Geraldine Mitchell, "Of Birds and Bones", Westport launch

Geraldine Mitchell’s second collection, Of Birds and Bones, will be launched on Saturday 16 November, as part of Westport’s quirky annual literary event, the Rolling Sun Book Festival (www.rollingsunbookfestival.com).

Geraldine’s first collection, World Without Maps,  was described in The Irish Times as “a cartography of psychological landscapes”, so it is fitting that American poet and psychogeographer Justin Hopper, presently based in London, should be the person chosen to launch this new book.

The event will take place at 5pm in The Cobbler’s Bar (Wyatt Hotel, The Octagon) to the strains of Polish musician Lukas Szczerbak on accordion – a suitably international roll call for Geraldine who has lived in France, Spain and North Africa and whose work often revisits foreign places even though she has now settled in her adoptive county, Mayo.

Thursday, November 7, 2013

Emily Cullen, "In Between Angels and Animals", Melbourne launch

Dr. Frances Devlin-Glass, Hon. Associate Professor at Deakin University, founder of Bloomsday in Melbourne and a noted scholar of Irish & Irish-Australian literature, launches Emily Cullen's collection of poetry, "In Between Angels and Animals", on Thursday 7 November at the Rooftop Garden, Daniel Mannix Building, Australian Catholic University.


The book addresses various states of in-betweenness as the poet transitions through life, from single woman through to wife and mother. Echoing its title, there is a sense of the animal and the divine as some of the poems grapple with the corporeality of pregnancy and motherhood, and the illumination that maternal love brings. Wit flows through the volume, infusing humour amid the poet’s reflections on her new circumstances.

The book is for sale, as are all Arlen House titles, from Kenny's Bookshop, Galway. 
www.kennys.ie, with free postage worldwide.

Saturday, February 2, 2013

Lisa C. Taylor, "Necessary Silence"


In promotion of her stunning new collection, Necessary Silence (Arlen House, 2013), Lisa C. Taylor is embarking on a reading tour. Details of the initial readings follow.


Syracuse University Press will release Necessary Silence on 15 February through all international outlets.

 
Saturday 26 January
Somerset Library
Somerset, Massachusetts
(with Jacqueline Loring and Preston Hood), 2:00 PM

Monday 28 January
James Gate Pub
Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts
(with Jacqueline Loring and Preston Hood), 6:30 PM

Tuesday 29 January
Andover Library
Andover, Connecticut
(with Jacqueline Loring and Preston Hood), 7:00 PM

Tuesday 5 February
University of Southern Maine
Muskee Center Auditorium
Osher Lifelong Learning Center
Portland, Maine
(with Jacqueline Loring and Preston Hood) 11:30 AM

Monday 11 February
Andover Library
Andover, Connecticut,
Workshop “Taking Risks with Language” and reading

More readings will be announced shortly.
For further information see www.lisactaylor.com

Thursday, December 6, 2012

Martin Dyar, “Maiden Names”, Launch Reading Tour




GALWAY
Kenny’s Bookshop
Saturday 8 December at 1pm

SWINFORD
Gateway Hotel
Saturday 8 December at 8pm

DUBLIN
Unitarian Church, St Stephen’s Green
Tuesday 11 December at 6.30pm

SLIGO
Yeats’ Memorial Building
Thursday 13 December at 6.30pm

All are very welcome!

Peggie Gallagher, “Tilth”, Launch Reading Tour



GALWAY
Kenny’s Bookshop
Saturday 8 December at 1pm

SWINFORD
Gateway Hotel
Saturday 8 December at 8pm

DUBLIN
Unitarian Church, St Stephen’s Green
Tuesday 11 December at 6.30pm

SLIGO
Yeats’ Memorial Building
Thursday 13 December at 6.30pm


All are very welcome!

Thursday, October 11, 2012

Celia de Fréine, launch 15 October

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A landmark event in Irish publishing, with the groundbreaking eighteenth-century poem by Brian Merriman inspiring a new trilogy of plays, Lorg Merriman. 

The 1st play, 'Desire : Meanmarc' imagines Merriman's life and times prior to writing his poem
The 2nd play, 'The Midnight Court', is a new translation and re-interpretation in drama
The 3rd play, 'Plight : Cruachas', imagines the setting up of a Midnight Court in modern-day Ireland

IMRAM agus ARLEN HOUSE
Cuirtear fáilte romhat foilsiú trí leabhar nua a cheiliúradh le Celia de Fréine
You are warmly invited to celebrate the publication of 3 new books by Celia de Fréine
 
Lorg Merriman
3 volumes
Desire : Meanmarc 
The Midnight Court 
Plight : Cruachas

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léamh drámaithe : dramatised reading
le Celia de Fréine, Séamas Ó Scanláin agus Fidelma Ní Ghallchobhair

ceol : music
le Seán Mac Erlaine agus Máire Breatnach

DÉ LUAIN 15 DEIREADH FÓMHAIR / Monday 15 October 
8.00pm (doras 7.30pm)

HELEN ROE THEATRE
Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland,
63 Merrion Square 
Dublin 2

Cead isteach/ admission €10/€5

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

GERALDINE MILLS Reading Tour, USA, March 2012

1 March 2012
Highline Community College
Des Moines,
Washington
Highline Listens: Writers Read Their Work

Hyla Middle School,
Bainbridge Island,
Puget Sound
Reading with poet Susan Rich

4 March
Elliot Bay Book Company
1521 10th Avenue,
Seattle, WA
Reading with poet Susan Rich

8 March
University of Missouri-St. Louis
Irish Studies Lectures and Concerts Series

12 March
Eastern Connecticut State University.
Reading with poet Lisa C. Taylor

14 March
Television Interview with Lisa Taylor
Windham Matters

15 March
Mishi-maya-gat Spoken Word & Music Series
Manchester Community College
Manchester, Connecticut

With thanks to Culture Ireland for their ongoing support