13TH OCT 2011 Chapters Bookstore Themed Reading 'GHOSTS AND GHOULS'

dublin | arts and media | event notice Wednesday April 06, 2011 16:03 by Oran Ryan - Seven Towers Ltd info at seventowers dot ie

This is a regular literary even run by the Seven Towers Agency, a small publishing house and event host, occurring at various locations and Internationally see www.seventowers.ie

The very best performance poetry and writing from the following poets and writers

Maeve O Sullivan, Ann Morgan, Bernie O REILLY Pauline Fayne Anne Tannam John W. Sexton Karl Parkinson, Ross HATTAWAY

All at Chapters Bookstore Parnell Street Dublin

Karl Parkinson is a Dublin poet and performer whose work has been
published in journals and anthologies as well as in his own pamphlet. Karl
has performed in many different spoken word events, including the Electric
Picnic, and in 2008 he won the Most Entertaining Irish Act award at the
International Balcony TV Awards

John W Sexton was born, somewhere in Ireland, in 1958. He is variously
a poet, a rock singer, a short story writer, a children’s novelist, and a radio
playwright.

As a poet, John is the author of three collections, The Prince's Brief Career
(Cairn Mountain Press, 1995), Shadows Bloom / Scáthanna Faoi Bhláth,
a book of haiku with translations into Irish by Gabriel Rosenstock, and
Vortex (Doghouse, 2005) as well as having been a contributor to the
anthology ‘Poets For The Millennium’ (Bradshaw Books, 1999), in which he
has seven poems. His poetry has also been published extensively in literary
journals, both in Ireland and abroad.

He has also written 103 episodes of The Ivory Tower for RTÉ Radio. This
is a radio drama featuring the adventures of Johnny Coffin, the 12-year-old
drummer with a band called The Dead Crocodiles, and reluctant boyfriend
of Enya. The show has led to him writing three books so far based on the
various adventures of Johnny and Enya, The Johnny Coffin Diaries, Johnny
Coffin - School Dazed and The Enya Murphy Diaries, all published by O’Brien
Press. More are to follow.

Although the primary market for these books is young adults, they can
really be read and enjoyed by anyone. He is on the Arts Council’s Writers In
Schools Scheme, where he goes to various schools around Ireland to talk to
the students about writing. John’s work also regularly appears in Albedo 1,
Ireland’s award winning SF short story magazine.

Occasionally, John W Sexton becomes Sex W Johnston. Sex is the lead
singer, lyricist and one half of Sons of Shiva, the other half of whom is
punk god Hugh Cornwell, original frontman with The Stranglers. They have
released one CD so far called, simply enough, Sons of Shiva. This is available
in two slightly different formats, the earlier version of which was only available
from Hugh Cornwell’s website. It has since been re-released by Track
Records with an extra tenth track. I recommend it wholeheartedly.

Pauline Fayne was born in 1954 and lives in Tallaght, Co. Dublin. Her first
collection Journey was published in 1979 by Sheveck Press. Her second
collection Killer of Fishes was published by Stonebridge Publications in
2001. A third collection I'm Fine, Really was published by Stonebridge
Publications in October 2005. Her fourth collection Mowing in the Dark will
be published by Stonebridge in 2010. Pauline’s work has been included in
several anthologies, including: The White Page (edited by Joan Mc Breen
and published by Salmon Press); Four Urban Voices (edited by Dermot
Bolger and published by Raven Arts Press); Rainbows and Stone (edited by
Michael Bouchier and published by Real Ireland). Her work has also been
broadcast on RTE Radio 1 and BBC Radio 4.

Ross Hattaway is a New Zealand born Irish poet. Ross' first collection The
Gentle Art of Rotting was published by Seven Towers in 2006 and he is
currently working on his second to be published in 2011. 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 and his work has been
translated into and published in Lithuanian.. 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. His second collection Pretending to be Dead
will be published by Seven Towers in 2011.

Anne Morgan was born in London and grew up in Dublin. She Studied
English as St Patrick’s College Maynooth and has taken part in readings
in the ballymun Axis Theatre and the Irish Writers Centre as well as at the
Chapters and Verse Series. She has had work published in Census, The
Seven Towers Anthology as well as in journals including Newsfour, Riposte and Electric Acorn.

Anne Tannam was born in 1966 in Dublin, one of four children. Brought up
on a diet of books. Went to college, became a teacher, got married, had
four children. Juggled parenthood with part time work and ran around like a
headless chicken for a few years. Got a diploma in life coaching, learned to
stop for a while and figure out how I wanted to live. Began writing. Continued
to juggle but less frantically. Kept writing, loved writing, wrote a book. Had the
time of my life. Coached others who wanted to have the time of their life. Not
the end. Anne has just published her first poetry collection Take This Life