Chapters and Verse Lunchtime Reading

dublin | arts and media | event notice Monday November 02, 2009 12:31 by Seven Towers Agency - Seven Towers Agency info at seventowers dot ie

With Eamonn Lynskey, David Murphy and Oran Ryan

In Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, Dublin1 at 1.15 on Wednesday 4th November.

Éamonn Lynskey has had poems published in many magazines. He was nominated for the Sunday Tribune/Hennessy Literary Award for New Irish Poetry in 2006 and one of his poems will feature on the 2009 OXFAM calendar. His first collection Dispatches and Recollections was published in 1998 and he is currently working on his second. Eamonn’s work is also featured in Census, The First Seven Towers Anthology. As well as writing in English, Eamonn has also translated works of Italian poets Montale and Valeri and written in Italian – he holds, (among other qualifications!) a Diploma in Italian Language and Culture from the Italian Institute, Dublin. Most recently he played Dead Corpse in the performance of Don Quixote has been Promoted by Oran Ryan.

David Murphy is a Cork born, Dublin based, award winning Science Fiction Writer. He us co-founder of Irish fiction magazine Albedo One, and has published two novels, Akron Chronicles and Longevity City and a collection of short stories Lost Notes. Formerly a teacher, he now writes full time.

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 Been Promoted in the up coming Ranelagh Arts Festival. Oran won a 2008 Arts Council Bursary Award for his current novel New Order from Zero.