Chapters and Verse Lunchtime Reading

dublin | arts and media | event notice Monday August 31, 2009 21:49 by Seven Towers Agency - Seven Towers Agency info at seventowers dot ie

at Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, Dublin 1

With Oran Ryan and Ross Hattaway, 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 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.