poetry reading at Irish Writers Centre

dublin | arts and media | event notice Wednesday July 12, 2006 14:18 by poetry news

Salmon Poetry in association with The Irish Writers Centre presents a poetry reading by Eamonn Wall, Kevin Higgins, Ben Howard, Susan Millar DuMars, Alan Jude Moore & Michael Heffernan

Salmon Poetry in association with The Irish Writers Centre presents a poetry reading by Eamonn Wall, Kevin Higgins, Ben Howard, Susan Millar DuMars, Alan Jude Moore & Michael Heffernan

Venue: The Irish Writers Centre, 19 Parnell Square, Dublin 1
Date: Friday, July 21st
Time: 7.30pm

Eamonn Wall, born and raised in Co. Wexford, has lived in the US since 1982 and is now settled in Missouri. His poetry collections are Dyckman--200th Street (1994), Iron Mountain Road (1997), The Crosses (2000), and Refuge at Desoto Bend (2004) all published by Salmon. From the Sin-é Café to the Black Hills (2000), a volume of essays on the Irish Diaspora, received the Michael J. Durkan Prize from the American Conference for Irish Studies for excellence in scholarship. Eamonn Wall teaches at the University of Missouri-St.Louis.

Kevin Higgins lives in Galway, Ireland, where he teaches poetry workshops at Galway Arts Centre and co-organises the Over The Edge: Open Reading series in Galway City Library. His first collection of poems The Boy With No Face was published by Salmon in February 2005. Also in 2005 he was short-listed for the Hennessy Award for Poetry and awarded a Literature Bursary by the Irish Arts Council. In February 2006 he received an Irish Arts Council Travel Award to do a five stop reading tour of the US Mid-West. The Boy With No Face was short-listed for the 2006 Strong Award for Best First Collection by an Irish poet.

Ben Howard is the author of the verse novella Midcentury (Salmon, 1997), The Pressed Melodeon: Essays on Modern Irish Writing (Story Line Press, 1996), and three previous collections of poems. A recpient of numerous awards, including the Milton Dorfman Prize, the Theodore Christian Hoepfner Award, and an NEA Creative Writing Fellowship, he is a frequent contributor to American literary journals. He teaches literature, writing, and classical guitar at Alfred University in upstate New York.

Susan Millar DuMars’ first collection of poetry, Everyone Loves Me, was published by Lapwing Press in late 2005. She also received an Arts Council Bursary last year for her short fiction. Susan is currently working on a larger collection of poems and writing a murder mystery novel set in the literary world of Galway. She is married to poet Kevin Higgins, with whom she organises the Galway readings series Over the Edge.

Alan Jude Moore was born in Dublin in 1973. He currently lives in Moscow. His poetry has been published in numerous publications in Ireland, the UK and the USA, including Poetry Ireland Review, The Stinging Fly, The Burning Bush, Books Ireland, Ropes, Force 10, The New Writer and Kestrel. He was short-listed in 1999 for fiction in the New Irish Writing / Hennessy Literary Awards. He took part in the Poetry Ireland Introductions readings in Dublin in 2001. Black State Cars was the recipient of a Salmon Poetry Publication Prize for a first collection.

Michael Heffernan lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas, where he teaches poetry at the University of Arkansas. His seven books include The Back Road to Arcadia and Another Part of the Island from Salmon Publishing, and The Night Breeze Off the Ocean, published last year by Eastern Washington University Press. He has received three grants in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts (US). His long acquaintance with Galway involved several years of association with NUIG’s International Writers Course, which he founded in 1989.

For further information contact The Irish Writers Centre
Tel: 01 8721302 Email: info@writerscentre.ie