Chapters and Verse Lunchtime reading

dublin | arts and media | event notice Sunday November 23, 2008 22:42 by Sarah Lundberg - The Seven Towers Agency sarah at seventowers dot ie

With Seamus Cashman and Greagoir O'Duill

At Chapters of Parnell St, Dublin 1, Wednesday 26th November, 1.15.

Seamus Cashman comes from Conna in county Cork and studied at St Colman's College, Fermoy, Maynooth College and University College Cork before spending some years teaching (and learning) in southern Tanzania, East Africa. He founded Wolfhound Press, the leading Irish literary and cultural publishing house, in Dublin in 1974, and was publisher there until 2001.

He has three published poetry collections, Carnival (Monarchline, 1988) and Clowns & Acrobats (Wolfhound Press, 2000), and That Morning will Come: new and selected poems (SalmonPoetry, 2007. He compiled and edited two significant poetry anthologies for children: the now classic historical collection, The Wolfhound Book of Irish Poems for Young People (co-edited with Bridie Quinn, 1975; still in print as Irish Poems for Yong People) and in 2004, he commissioned and edited the award winning Something Beginning with P: new poems from Irish poets for the O'Brien Press. He has undertaken writing workshop residencies with Poetry Ireland in their Development Education projects, including facilitating a children's scriptwriting project on the subject of child labour at Zion Primary School in 2005 and, with poet and school principal Tom Conaty, co-directed the resulting schoolchildren's film, Stitched.

In addition to his own writing and poetry, he currently works as a publishing and writing consultant, and is chairman of the board of Children's Books Ireland. He lives in Portmarnock, County Dublin.

Gréagóir O'Dúill was born in Dublin but grew up outside Belfast. He was educated in Queen's University, Belfast and UCD and took a PhD in English in Maynooth. He recently moved to Waterford to set up postgraduate creative writing in Waterfor Institute of Technology.
His own work has included eight collections of poetry, two anthologies, a critical biography and a collection of short stories, and he has taken prizes in poetry, short fiction and criticism. His work is widely anthologised and has been translated into the major European languages - most recently with a full-length collection of versions in English by Bernie Kenny called Gone to Earth. He has read from Cork to Stornoway to Palermo to New York.
Greagoir is an Irish language adviser and Irish language reviewer of Poetry Ireland Review. He has recently started to write in English and has been widely published in journals in Ireland, Britain and the United States. New Room Windows is Gréagóir's first DOGHOUSE publication