7 DEC 2011 Lunchtime reading at the 3FE Twisted Pepper Abbey St Dublin: 1.15 - 2pm

dublin | arts and media | event notice Wednesday April 06, 2011 16:46 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

Bernie O REILLY, DAVID Murphy, Ross Hattaway

All at the 3FE Twisted Pepper Abbey Street Dublin 1

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.

Bernadette O’Reilly has read at the poetry Ireland Introductions Series, Poets
Anon, Peanut Club, last Wednesday Series and Chapters and Verse. She
has taken part in workshops with Tony Curtis, Jean O’Brien, Gerard Dawe,
jean valentine, Jamie McKendrick and her work has been published in Poetry
Ireland Review, Poetry Review UK and Census, the Seven Towers Anthology.

Cork-born David Murphy has lived north of Dublin for the past thirty years,
though recently he has been living in County Waterford. His latest novella Bird
of Prey is due for publication in the USA in 2009. A previous novella Arkon
Chronicles appeared in paperback from Silver Lake Publishing (a small press)
in 2003. His novel Longevity City was published in hardback by Five Star, and
well received, in 2005. Award-winning short fiction has been published and
translated worldwide, including two chapbooks and a short story collection
brought out in 2004. The title story of that collection, Lost Notes, won the
inaugural Maurice Walsh Award for short stories.
He has given readings and talks (on the history of 'imaginative' fiction in the
Irish tradition) at bookshops, writers' centres, arts festivals and other events,
including the Frank O'Connor Festival in Cork, Eurocon 2007 in Copenhagen,
Montreal Worldon 2009 and the Chapters and Verse Lunchtime Series. He is
part of the group that brings you Albedo One magazine, Aeon Press and the

Aeon Award.